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The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers

About this issue

This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.

Content

The Contribution of Cartoonists to Environmental Debates in Nigeria: The Koko Toxic-Waste-Dumping Incident

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Perspectives Issue 2013/1

This paper focuses on the 1987 to 1988 dumping of hazardous industrial waste in Koko, Nigeria. The paper critically analyzes the number, content, and contexts of cartoons that covered the toxic-waste dumping.

Burtynsky, Edward, "My Wish: Manufactured Landscapes and Green Education"

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.

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Aesth/Ethics in Environmental Change

This book catalyzes the reflection about the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in the environmental humanities and offers transdisciplinary insights into the challenge of sustainability and ongoing changes in our society and environment.

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"Aesthetic Disillusionment: Environment, Ethics, Art"

Does it make sense to say that one should not, or ought not, take pleasure in certain objects or events within the natural environment? Cheryl Foster explores ethical constraints on aesthetic activity and appreciation.

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“Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental Management”

Libby Robin explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity, and livelihood.

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Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design

This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.