A Level Playing Field, or the Hope for Science as a Common Ground

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Oomen argues that science has an important role in climate communication as a common ground and honest broker.

Decentering Science in Climate Communication

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Perspectives Issue 2019/4

Walsh argues that science should be decentered in communicating about climate change.

Engaging Religion in the Fight for Environmental Justice: Jesuits and Conservation in the Palni Hills of South India

by Joseph Satish Vedanayagam

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Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 24

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Review of Green Wars by Megan Ybarra

Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.

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"Art, Trees, and the Enchantment of the Anthropocene: Caroline Wendling’s White Wood"

Considering Caroline Wendling’s living artwork White Wood (2014) in northeast Scotland, the author examines the relationship between deep time, ecology, and enchantment.

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"Introduction: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time"

The authors introduce a special section of Environmental Humanities on manifestations of deep time through places, objects, and practices, focusing on three modes through which it is encountered: enchantment, violence, and haunting.

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Crosscurrents episode 3: Rose Ricciardelli

The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Crosscurrents episode 2: “The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)”

The second episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on how the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) approaches issues of social justice and equity in their research.

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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic

by Chris Gismondi

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Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 16

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Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jeroen Oomen and Adam Sébire delve into the world of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies through a video triptych in Hellisheiði in Iceland. The three screens, shown here in one video, capture experiments at Hellishei∂i, aspects of the sequestered CO₂, and an imagined future.

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

Communicating global environmental issues in new and exciting ways can lead to a better public understanding of academic research. The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) present their interdisciplinary projects through short, immersive videos, accompanied by analytical contextualization. These six 360º videos and one multiple-screen video triptych, shot in different countries and ecosystems, aim to bring people closer to an in situ experience of global environments, their complexities, and our relationship to them.

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Doctoral researchers, ENHANCE ITN

The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) are funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, and spread across four leading academic institutions: the Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center, KTH Stockholm, and the University of Leeds

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Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

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