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Unwelcome but Dear: Poplar Trees in Northern Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Cityscapes
The environmental and imaginative significance of poplar trees in post-Soviet cities of Northern Kazakhstan.
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“An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma”
Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
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Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
The article explores the circulation of environmental ignorance on Drimys winteri in European written sources in 1578–1776.
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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.
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Twenty-One Millet Co-wives against One Rice Co-wife: Millet and Rice Cultivation in the Dandakaranya Forest, 1956–1987
The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.
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Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.
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"Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector"
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.