Nature in the Plural: Finding Common Ground for Nature Policies in Europe
Farjon et al. explore various narratives of nature and nature policies in the Netherlands.
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Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
About this issue
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Content
Feathering the Multispecies Nest: Green Cities, Convivial Spaces
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
Beauties and Beasts: Whales in Portugal, from Early-Modern Monsters to Today’s Flagship Species
Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 21
"Restoration and the Affective Ecologies of Healing: Buffalo and the Fort Peck Tribes"
In this special section on affective ecologies, Julia Hobson Haggerty, Elizabeth Lynne Rink, Robert McAnally, and Elizabeth Bird study the restoration of bison/buffalo by the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes to their reservation in Montana in the United States. They argue that ecological restoration can promote and facilitate emergent and dynamic processes of reconnection at the scale of individuals, across species and within communities.
Review of Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics, by Jessica Dempsey
Ryan Hackett reviews Jessica Dempsey’s book Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics.
Nature's Past episode 49: "Wildlife Conservation in Quebec"
In episode 49 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Darcy Ingram about Ingram’s 2014 book Wildlife Conservation and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914.
"'It’s Just a Matter of Time': Lessons from Agency and Community Responses to Polar Bear-inflicted Human Injury"
Aimee L. Schmidt and Douglas A. Clark examine the response of local people and agencies to a polar bear-inflicted human injury in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, showing how human-bear conflict is often widely publicized and controversial, and how it shapes public expectations around bear management.
"From Biopower to Ontopower? Violent Responses to Wildlife Crime and the New Geographies of Conservation"
In this special section on Green Wars, Bram Büscher examines the case of rhino poaching in South Africa, arguing that we are seeing the uneven emergence of new geographies of conservation focused on preempting threats (ontopower).
Connection to Nature: The Experience of the Right of Public Access
Arcadia, Summer 2018, no. 18