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Moving On | American Land Rush
Chapter 4 of American Land Rush, a virtual exhibition by Sara Gregg.
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Perspectives
Women and Energy
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Arcadia
Bonbibi: A Religion of the Forest in the Sundarbans
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
Arcadia
How a Fishway from Norway Reached the Weser River in Germany (1905–1912)
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
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“Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans”
Research on determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities. This paper changes the focus to the role played by perceptions themselves.
Multimedia | journal article
“Adaptation Measures to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation in the Chambal Basin”
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
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“Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science?”
Whereas scientific evidence points towards substantial and urgent reduction in greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions, economic analysis of climate change seems to be out of sync by indicating a more gradual approach.
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“Soil Conservation in a Watershed: Institutional Alternatives”
The private, collective and public nature of soil quality in a watershed provides three different institutional alternatives for watershed management: individual, collective and government action. This study reviews the success and failure of these alternatives in different parts of the world.
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Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd: Eine transnationale Verflechtungsgeschichte von Naturschutz und Kolonialisierung in Argentinien
How do national parks operate? In Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd, Olaf Kaltmeier explores this question by looking at the park politics of Argentina.