Perspectives Article
The Journey of Sand: How the Yellow River Has Shaped Lankao County
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
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Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Approaches to Sustainable Happiness”
Greta Gaard on “Approaches to Sustainable Happiness.”
Multimedia | book, full-text
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
In Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, Joanna Zylinska outlies an ethical framework that could help humans assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe across different scales. Her goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink “life” and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist’s method; it also includes a photographic project by the author.
Perspectives Article
Between Science and the Expertise of the Elders
Brill explores the relationship between “Science” and “the sciences”, and the political potential of the two, in the context of research cooperations involving indigenous groups.
Multimedia | journal article
"Tasks for Future Ecologists"
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Neganthropocene
The Neganthropocene is a collection of essays and lectures focusing on the Anthropocene and the vast semantic horizon it encompasses, from philosophy to politics and the arts, through a renewed thought of the concepts of entropy and negentropy.
Exhibition chapter
Imagining Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira discusses the drivers of future transitions in the light of past ones.
Multimedia | film profile
Beautiful Islands
Director Tomoko Kana compares three islands in different geographies and their adaptation to the impact of climate change through a portrayalof the inhabitants’ daily lives.
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.