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The War Against the Goats in Interwar Greece
This article investigates forest policy in the period of dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece.
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Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879–1950
When the mystical marketing of Himalayan medicines elides the social and ecological worlds of Himalayan meadows.
Multimedia | podcast
ASLE EcoCast: Forest Rhythms: The Hip Hop Environmentalism of Thomas Rashad Easley
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Thomas Rashad Easley, hip hop artist and Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at the Yale School of the Environment.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Ian M. Miller, author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ian M. Miller is interviewed on her new book, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China.
Multimedia | podcast
ASLE EcoCast: Thinking with Trees: Poetry and Conversation with Jason-Allen Paisant
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Jason-Allen Paisant, poet and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Leed.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Poor Woods of Northern Nigeria”
A writer and literary scholar, Sule Emmanuel Egya weaves together a personal love letter to trees with accounts of having witnessed extractive wood logging in Gombe, Nigeria. To what extent can the Gombe State tree planting policy attempt to salvage such hostility toward trees?
Multimedia | journal article
“Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living with the Non-Human”
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
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The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril
Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.
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The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism.
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The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.