Food Fight
Food Fight looks at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century.
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Our Daily Bread
The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety, and profit.
Nuevas historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe
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Esta colección reúne a algunos de los académicos más destacados en el estudio de las historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe para proponer nuevas perspectivas sobre el desarrollo poscolonial del continente. Estos ensayos narran historias variadas de interacciones complejas entre grupos sociales, estados y sus ambientes, y proveen nuevos ángulos para enriquecer las interpretaciones más conocidas.
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New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean
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This collection brings together leading scholars on the environments of Latin America and the Caribbean to give us new and alternative narratives of the postcolonial history of the continent.
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Munich and Its Isar River: A Rafting Port on an Alpine River
Arcadia, 2013, no. 18
A Lake of Opportunity: Rethinking Phosphorus Pollution and Resource Availability
This article outlines the “global P problem sphere” before moving to insights obtained from a Canadian case study that examines the opportunities of applying a paradigmatic focal shift to phosphorus understanding—“from noxious to precious”— as assessed and evaluated through the direct participation of local stakeholders.
The Man-Made Environment of Valaam Island
Arcadia, 2014, no. 5
"Ecologically Sustainable Rural Development and the Difficulty of Social Change"
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
The Magic of One: Reflections on the Pathologies of Monoculture
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In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
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Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization
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Around the world, fields and forests are increasingly dominated by the market, mediated by science, and subjected to new modes of transnational environmental governance. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into the impacts of such environmental globalization.
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