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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. Two different shift work schedules. Adapted from Marc Maurice, Shift Work: Economic Advantages and Social Costs (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1975: 130). More
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Jacques Cousteau announced Homo aquaticus , a vision involving both technological intervention and natural adaptation to intentionally evolve a species of human to live underwater. The story of Homo aquaticus reveals the extent to which humanity’s future has become tied to the ocean. This article...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-living pigs’ shifting agency and identity. Introduced pigs were modern English breeds, domesticates in nascent capitalist stages of unmaking. Yet, these animals were made anew in Australia, living largely unmediated and demonstrating remarkable adaptability to novel environments. This article analyzes...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Father (2021) complicates through the perspective of rice ( Oryza sativa ) and humans in Dongting Lake. It reveals adaptive evolution, hetero-reproduction, and geontopower as three political regimes where extinctive pressures accumulate through the erosion of biocultural inheritability. The second part...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ontologies certainly have ethical dimensions, and they may provide ways for people to make sense of and cope with Anthropocenic crises, but that does not mean they teach people how to act sustainably. At the very least, that would require an active process of translation and adaptation. a.p.rots...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Joshua B. Cohen; Amber Abrams; Martin Høybye Abstract Recent decades have seen a transformation in how water and human-water interrelations are conceptualized in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Such adaptation of theory has been tied to an interest in developing transdisciplinary...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 72–100.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nicole Welk-Joerger Abstract Since Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen popularized the concept the “Anthropocene” in 2000, scholars from many disciplines have taken up and adapted the term to better account for multiple worldviews and environmentalist strategies. However, such attempts have not solved...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 4. Two different shift work schedules. Adapted from Marc Maurice, Shift Work: Economic Advantages and Social Costs (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1975: 130). ...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 5. Three relationships with the same slope, same intercept, and different amounts of scatter around the regression line, hence different R 2 values from high—left, to low—right. Figure adapted from McDonald (2014). Reproduced with permission. More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2. The OSE “power cube” is a modular hydraulic power source used to power many of the machines in the GVCS. Like all OSE machines, it is designed to be inexpensive to build, simple to repair, and easily adapted to a variety of purposes. Image courtesy of Open Source Ecology (CC-BY-SA). More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 Millennial Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstruction (blue) and instrumental data (red) from AD 1000 to 1999, adapted from Mann et al. (1999). Smoother version of NH series (black), linear trend from AD 1000 to 1850 (purple-dashed) and two standard error limits (grey shaded More
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 175–179.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., especially global climate change? Surely resilience and the ability to “adapt” to adversity by “bouncing back” is in everyone’s interest. The plurality of claims made on behalf of resilience in fields as diverse as urban planning, international security, environmental policy, financial regulation...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Glacial Maximum), land ice began melting and forced a rise in global sea level by a net 120 meters on average between about fifteen thousand years ago and the present that led to changes to coastal geography to which many human groups had no choice but to adapt. At times, sea level rise was much faster...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 433–453.
Published: 01 November 2017
... cognitive abilities and intelligence very different from ours. Cognition is an adaptation to, and is formed by, the specific environment and its history. SETI research is to a large extent an endeavor to understand how intelligent life interacts with its environment and communicates information about...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... broader beliefs in human transcendence through technology. Rosero’s emphasis on strategies of cross-species collaboration and adaptation has the effect of returning to the natural world beyond the human the agency and subjectivity that are often stripped from it in the apocalyptic tenor of imagined...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... premise has not been resolved, amplifies the urgency of Waterworld ’s message. No bodies are pure in Waterworld . The ones that survived have adapted and morphed into fluid, mutant forms. To trace the ebbing contours of more watery ways of being, we begin with Rosi Braidotti, who argues...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... lands where bureaucrats promoted the use of sacrifice areas in livestock and pasture management, the authors adapted the concept to understand the effects of coal strip-mining. Though mentioned only twice in the report, spokespersons for both the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Coal...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... from assumptions of vulnerability and rethinking their agency through the mediation of narrative form. As fiction imagines scenarios shaped, more or less realistically, by climate change, children reject adults’ nostalgic longing for the preapocalyptic world and cultivate adaptation and acceptance...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Andrew J. , McGovern Thomas H. , Vésteinsson Orri , Arneborg Jette , Streeter Richard , and Keller Christian . “ Cultural Adaptation, Compounding Vulnerabilities, and Conjunctures in Norse Greenland .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 , no. 10...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 233–238.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the ‘good Anthropocene,’ an unlikely juxtaposition now amplified into the idea of the ‘great Anthropocene’ and set out in An Ecomodernist Manifesto. 2 There are no planetary boundaries that limit continued growth in human populations and economic advance, they argue. ‘Human systems' can adapt...