This book explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.
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The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.
Virtual water is heralded as the solution to freshwater scarcity and overconsumption, but it oversimplifies global water flows.
A neo-protectionist conservation plan proposes a private natural reserve in the Carpathians, promoting historically produced landscape as pristine nature and triggering growing discontent from local land users.
Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. This issue reports the decision on Curry vs. United States Forest Service, requiring the Forest Service to perform an environmental impact assessment before proceeding with a timber sale; the issue also focuses on efforts to raise awareness about logging on public lands.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Jamie Lorimer addresses the growing interest in restoring components of the microbiome. His article explores some of the implications of these developments for multispecies studies through a focus on helminth therapy—the selective reintroduction of parasitic worms as “gut buddies” to tackle autoimmune disease.
The Australian & New Zealand Environmental History Network provides a means for people to communicate and exchange information about forthcoming events and new publications in Australia and New Zealand.
Beavers have been successfully reintroduced into Knapdale Forest, Scotland, an area where they went extinct over 400 years ago.
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.