Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
Silent Spring sparked a global environmental movement in 1962, and its 50th anniversary was commemorated by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society with international events honoring its lasting ecological impact.
Hinks highlights the Miawpukek First Nation in Newfoundland for its leadership in Atlantic salmon conservation and self-managed fisheries, while warning that expanding finfish aquaculture threatens traditional harvests, ecosystems, and Indigenous food security.
The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human–animal bonds forged in the field, as Monica Vasile writes.
First chapter of the virtual exhibition “Wetland Times,” “Imaginaries.”
Wetlands are ecologically dynamic and vulnerable landscapes where multiple temporalities, human and nonhuman, intersect and challenge one another. This virtual exhibition explores the dynamic temporalities of wetlands and their complex relationships—the temporal imaginaries, narratives, structures, flows, (a)synchronicities, and ruptures they contain—framed by a conceptual vocabulary that reveals the role of language in understanding wetland times and temporalities. Our examples draw on case studies from three wetlands: the Wadden Sea in Northern Europe; Morecambe Bay, in the northwest of the United Kingdom; and the Dja-et-Lobo region in southern Cameroon, focusing specifically on wetland areas near settlements of the Baka People.
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Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
