The Limits of Techno-management in Transitioning to Green Cities
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) promotes interdisciplinary environmental studies, especially work in the environmental humanities. The network is supported by NordForsk, and is based in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.
The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose attempt to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in their research in Hawai’i over the past seven years. Their aim is to develop “lively ethographies”: a mode of knowing, engaging, and storytelling that recognizes the meaningful lives of others and that, in so doing, enlivens our capacity to respond to them by singing up their character or ethos.
Tabios Hillebrecht examines layers of power involved in human-nature relations, and how they can undermine Rights of Nature.
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
Kalantzakos describes how flawed policy decisions damaged Greece’s Archeloos river, and how Rights of Nature could have mitigated the damage.
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
Mariqueo-Russell highlights the mutually supportive relationship between Rights of Nature and the Precautionary Principal.