Arcadia
Rya Forest Nature Reserve: A Case of Preservation, Conflicts, and Unwanted Rewilding
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
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Exhibition chapter
Metsik Loodus, Puutumatu Loodus, and Põlisloodus—Estonian | Wilderness Babel
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
Exhibition chapter
Wildnis—German | Wilderness Babel
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
Exhibition chapter
Vadon and Puszta—Hungarian | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness babel” exhibition, written by historical ecologist and environmental historian Péter Szabó, looks at Hungarian notions of “wilderness.”
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Vildmark and Ödemark—Swedish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Lars Elenius, looks at Swedish notions of wilderness and its uses over history.
Arcadia
Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.
Multimedia | book excerpt
American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
Multimedia | journal article
“Timber Exploitation in Colonial Brazil: A Historical Perspective of the Atlantic Forest”
This article investigates the exploitation of timber in Brazil during the colonial period.
Perspectives Article
Life Among the Giants: Translating Ecology into History through Mountain Studies
Claudio de Majo argues that the notion of the commons, often seen as an economically motivated notion, could also be seen in relation to metabolic cycles, both in the mountains of Sila in Italy and in the uplands of the Serra Gaucha in southern Brazil.
Arcadia
Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.