The Challenge of Scale in Environmental History: A Small Meditation on a Large Matter
Using the example of mountains in South America, this article illustrates how different ways of thinking about scale can shape the questions we ask.
Using the example of mountains in South America, this article illustrates how different ways of thinking about scale can shape the questions we ask.
A massive wildfire, commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, ravished 3 million acres of woods and burned down everything in its path. In response to the devastation the US Forest Service changed their fire management strategies and policies.
Wild Earth 3, no. 2 on imperiled predators like bears and lions, the Eastern forest recovery, Alabama wildlands, deep ecology in the former Soviet Union, and the salmon/selway ecosystem.
Wild Earth 3, no. 1 on the Northwoods wilderness recovery, the Southern Ozarks, endangered species like the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker and the Perdido Key Beach Mouse, and the breadth and the limits of the deep ecology movement.
The exploitation of the cheap manual labor provided by Adivasis and the appropriation of their indigenous environmental knowledge has enabled and equally influenced environmental governance at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary since colonial times.
This paper discusses one especially vigorous wing of the satoyama revitalization movement in Japan: the mobilization to recreate forests that produce highly valued matsutake mushrooms.
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
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In this paper the conservation value of traditionally protected forests is studied with regard to its ecological representativity and institutional persistence.
David Russell narrates the exploration of trees and woods.
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.