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Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
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Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
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Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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The Mapping of Wilderness—French | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historical geographer Philippe Forêt, looks at cartographic representations and nomenclature of wilderness in French.
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Banff Is … Hell? The Struggle of Being Canada’s First, Most Famous, and Most Visited National Park
Banff is the Canadian national park you have heard of.
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Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.
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Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
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Voices of the Peace
The hydroelectric dam “Site C” impacts not only the local environment but also the everyday life of indigenous groups.
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Becoming a Virgin Forest: From Remote Sensing to Erasing Environmental History
As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.