“The Need for Ecocentrism in Biodiversity Conservation”

In this article, RCC alumnus Bron Taylor and colleagues argue for the

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Life Among the Giants: Translating Ecology into History through Mountain Studies

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

Claudio de Majo argues that the notion of the commons, often seen as an economically motivated notion, could also be seen in relation to metabolic cycles, both in the mountains of Sila in Italy and in the uplands of the Serra Gaucha in southern Brazil.

Beyond the Exhibition

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

About the author

Kleemann, Katrin

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Katrin Kleemann is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich in Germany, she studies environmental history and geology. Her doctoral project investigates the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 and its impacts on the northern hemisphere. She holds a master’s degree in early modern history and a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology. Katrin receives a doctoral fellowship from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung. She also is the social media editor for the Climate History Network and HistoricalClimatology.com.

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The Empire, the Naturalist, and the Countryside: Biological Science in Colonial Hong Kong

by Leo Chu

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Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 35

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Interview with David Munns, author of Engineering the Environment

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Munns is interviewed on his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War.

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The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s

Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.

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Interview with David Moon, author of The American Steppes

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.