This article takes a closer look at the Polish culture of nature. Visions of nature are defined as public views on what nature is, what values are carried by nature and what is the appropriate relationship between humans and nature.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.
The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa. Cover.
Gissibl, Bernhard. The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016.
Wild Earth 10, no. 1, presents essays on the mission, vision, and purpose of “The Wildlands Project,” which aims “to design and implement systems of protected natural areas/wildlands networks across the continent.”
Wild Earth 10, no. 3 features essays on “little things”: the microbial microcosm, forgotten pollinators like birds and bats, the American burying beetle, and butterflies.
Wild Earth 10, no. 4 celebrates the journal’s 10-year anniversary with a retrospective of past highlights and many new contributions.
Wild Earth 9, no. 4 features visionary essays that reimagine the future. Topics include abolitionism and preservationism, the environment and the US constitution, and the Buffalo Commons.
In Wild Earth 7, no. 2 Doug Peacock presents his field report on the Yellowstone bison slaughter, Reed Noss writes about endangered major ecosystems of the United States, and Virginia Abernethy analyzes if and how population growth discourages environmentally sound behavior.
Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.
