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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Cat skin on display at the National Museum of Scotland. More
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Erin Despard; Michael Gallagher Abstract In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to management, even...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and the processes by which these are, often slowly, severed from place. In this article, the authors draw upon research in diverse contexts—concerning the conservation of ospreys on Speyside, Scotland, and trans-border marine conservation in Mozambique—as a lens through which to demonstrate the multiple ways...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 288–295.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Kate Symons argue that extinctions must be placed. Through two examples—one concerning trans-frontier marine conservation in Mozambique, the other examining the local extinction and return of the osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ) in Scotland—the authors articulate three registers for addressing...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Alan Macpherson Abstract The objective of this article is to think through the concepts of deep time and enchantment with Caroline Wendling’s White Wood (2014), a living artwork in northeast Scotland. The first part of the article establishes the relationship between deep time, ecology...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 346–369.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Figure 1. Cat skin on display at the National Museum of Scotland. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ( 2018 ): 251 – 55 . Westwood Jennifer , and Kingshill Sophia . The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends . London : Random House , 2009 . Whyte Constance . More than a Legend: The Story of the Loch Ness Monster . London : H. Hamilton , 1957 . Williams...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in Time,” 12; Ilana Halperin, The Library: Gallery Guide (Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland, 2013), 15. Halperin explains the process thus: “Crystals grow from liquids. They will continue to grow until all the chemicals they need to build the crystal are used up. On special occasions after...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-engines/trestle-steam-engine/ (accessed August 10, 2022). 2. National Museum of Scotland, “Boulton and Watt Engine,” https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/boulton-and-watt-engine/ (accessed February 24, 2023). 1. Viking Ship House, https...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
... I made of its song might outlive the species itself. The small harbour of Oban is named after a port in the west of Scotland but this Oban is the main settlement on Stewart Island, an hour or two's boat ride from the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island. It's only my second day...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... , forthcoming 2018 . Lambert Robert A. “ From Exploitation to Extinction, to Environmental Icon: Our Images of the Great Auk .” In Species History in Scotland: Introductions and Extinctions since the Ice Age , edited by Lambert Robert A. , 20 – 37 . Edinburgh : Scottish Cultural Press...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Twelve-Hour Shift in Industry . 68. Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , 242 . 69. Fletcher et al., “Work at Sea.” 70. Maurice, Shiftwork , 4–9 . 71. Mott et al., Shiftwork , 1 . 72. Luce, Body Time , 43 . 73. “Biological...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Scotland, these retorts were designed to distill the abundant Scottish shale found in and around the dank bogs of the country. These could not be further away from the tropical environment of Maraú. Underneath the groves of African oil palms, native mangroves, and sandy beaches, mineral realities were...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... were not established in Scotland until the new millennium). The idea of considering nature ‘outside reserves', in production lands and cities, in a sense anticipated by more than fifty years, current initiatives in Australia. The “essence of nature conservation”, according to Sir Dudley Stamp...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
... fantasies, stories, passions, but also the various skills and the commitment of seafarers, drawers, narrators—and of those who just look at an atlas, or search in libraries for lost manuscripts like the diary of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson, a manuscript that traveled from Scotland to Berlin only...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of divinatory practices. He mentioned his mother used the same method in her orchard in Scotland. She would designate specific fruit trees the birds could have on the condition they leave the remaining trees for humans. These giveaway plants, as Gerald called them, were switched each year in a process...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the Irish Sea, and up the western shores of Scotland and the Hebrides. Investigations into the “Seascale cluster,” an unusually high number of children diagnosed with leukemia in Seascale, were based on the understanding that radioactive exposure could encode disease in the genes, potentially triggering...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., but the circumstances derive from colonial history rather than Indigenous autonomy. Ni‘ihau island was bought in 1864 from King Kameameha by the Robinson family from Scotland along with its Hawaiian-speaking inhabitants, who were employed as workers on the island’s cattle ranch and charcoal factory. The Robinson family...