To Dig a Well (in Siberia)
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 13
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Projektion Natur: Grüne Gentechnik im Fokus der Wissenschaften
Projektion Natur is a collection of articles contextualising “green” genetic engineering within the debate about nature and society.
The Sidoarjo Mudflow and the Muddiness of an Environmental Disaster
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 5
Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work
About this issue
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.
Content
Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 2
Jamieson, Dale, "Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine"
Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.
Toman, Michael, "Values in the Economics of Climate Change"
Michael Toman discusses values, costs, and benefits in the economics of climate change, and sketches ways in which technical economic analyses could be integrated with public dialogue.
Die Klimazwiebel
Die Klimazwiebel is a bilingual (German and English) climate blog started by a group of natural and social scientists in 2009. It aims for sustainable dialogue between climate warners and skeptics alike.
Chemical Rubble: Historicizing Toxic Waste in a Former Mining Town in Northern Chile
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 20
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Politics of Postcolonial Writing
Clapperton evaluates three existing frameworks for understanding Indigenous and non-Indigenous claims to know the environment. While each framework has its strengths, they reinforce a binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and keep salvage paradigms of Indigenous knowledge alive. Clapperton calls for an enlarged definition of Indigenous knowledge that could account for boundary-crossing and Indigenous people “doing” science.