Finding Dartmoor
Matthew Kelly explores Dartmoor as a historically layered landscape that shapes both his personal and academic trajectory.
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All that is Solid: Castlereagh 1999
Grace Karskens examines the tension between urban development and the preservation of historical and cultural landscapes along Castlereagh Road near the Nepean River in Sydney.
“Stew of the Earth”
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Massive Body Loss (website)
This website is an open-access data-visualization project documenting events that caused massive body loss in and around Turkey in the last century.
Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands
Full text of Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Rachel Carson Center almunae Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková,
“Walking, Drawing, Designing: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Drawing Stick and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardens”
An article on the methods of German landscape gardener Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823).
“Mixed Methods, Dry Valleys, New Insights”
A reflection on the use of mixed methods in environmental history.
The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space
In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.