Martin Knoll, Carson Fellow from October to March 2009, talks about his research concerning perceptions of nature and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature.
In this show, host Michael Asch jumps into the world of animal sounds and songs about animals.
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
British Arctic explorers lacked local knowledge of the environments through which they passed and sometimes consulted Inuit shamans, whose geographical knowledge was known to be extensive. One expedition to seek the Northwest Passage exemplifies how they supplemented their deficit with indigenous environmental knowledge.
Part of the scientific agenda of the British Arctic land expedition of 1819-22 was to investigate whether the appearance of the aurora borealis was accompanied by any sound.
Analysing the natural and social conditions for soil nutrients in the small Catalan village of Sentmenat during the 1860s, this interdisciplinary study aims to bridge the gap between history and ecology in order to draw lessons for sustainable agricultural systems from the pre-industrial era.
A well-recorded instance of medieval conflict over aquatic resources, in this case the rich salmon fisheries of medieval Scotland, highlights the historic importance of this resource and incidentally documents technical and social elements of its exploitation.
