Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
anthropology
Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt
Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Stefan Dorondel on "Transforming Socialist Landscape"
Stefan Dorondel, Carson fellow from July to December 2010, is an anthropologist interested in post-socialist land tenure systems and in land use change. In the interview he talks about “Transforming Socialist Landscape.”
"Riding the Tide: Indigenous Knowledge, History and Water in a Changing Australia"
This paper discusses the contested and relational nature of indigeneity and challenges the ahistorical conceptualisation of indigenous knowledge.
"Man and the Natural World: Reflections on History and Anthropology"
The efforts of both anthropologists and historians have been weakened by a failure to take into account what the other half were doing…
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.