Development and Degradation in the Lakes of Lapsista and Ioannina from the 1950s to the Present
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 14
ecosystems
Sundial
Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
“Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events”
In this Springs article, natural-resource and environmental-policy professor Thomas Princen explores three extreme weather events in the Houston-Galveston area, Texas.
“Roots through Asphalt: A Conversation with Sonja Dümpelmann”
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
“Ecological Civilization”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”
“Why I Sleep Outside”
In this Springs article, Elin Kelsey reflects on how she first started to sleep outside, and how it brought her closer to her environment.
“Fishing for Sharks”
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.