Stone-Rich: Where is Munich’s Gravel Hiding?
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Lorimer’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section discusses rot as a natural process avoided by modern humans, focusing particularly on processes of urbanization in contrast to the nurturing of rot that takes place among natural scientists and managers.
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
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A visual exploration of the settlement of Australia’s Mallee country by Europeans in the twentieth century.
Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
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