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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to extirpate once it has become established. In Massachusetts, the Japanese knotweed is one of sixty-six species that have been designated “invasive” by the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group (a nonprofit organization that works in coordination with state and federal agencies). Like the other sixty...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... mentioned by Shakespeare. This article uses the methods of literary history to investigate this popular anecdote. Today starlings are much despised as an invasive species that displaces native birds and does almost a billion dollars worth of damage to agriculture annually. Because of the starling’s pest...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for Developing Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Invasive Alien Species . Nairobi, Global Invasive Species Programme , 2008 . Simberloff Daniel and Von Holle Betsy . “ Positive Interactions of Nonindigenous Species: Invasional Meltdown? ” Biological Invasions 1 ( 1999 ): 21 - 32...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jonathan L. Clark Abstract Although philosophers have examined the ethics of invasive species management, there has been little research approaching this topic from a descriptive, ethnographic perspective. In this article I examine how invasive species managers think about the moral status...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Laura A. Ogden Abstract For decades the role of invasive species has been central to discussions of anthropogenic loss and change. Conceptual debates over whether “native” and “invasive” species are useful to our understanding of dynamic processes of world making have significantly challenged...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Fernando Varela Abstract The myxoma virus (MYXV) was used in Australia in 1950 to control, albeit temporarily, the overpopulation of the invasive European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ). A different strand of the virus was released in France two years later, resulting in the drastic decline...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 283–286.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., “Shadow Places,” 140. 9 M.K. Chew and A.L. Hamilton, “The Rise and Fall of Biotic Nativeness: A Historical Perspective,” in Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology. The Legacy of Charles Elton, ed. D.M. Richardson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011), 35-48: 36; Head, “Decentring 1788,” 1-2. Thom van Dooren...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and how his subsequent writing portrayed the starling introduction as misguided. Finally, they reveal the influence of this literature on framing the starling as an invasive pest. The tale of Eugene Schieffelin introducing all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to the United States in the late...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
... . 12. Frawley and McCalman, Rethinking Invasion Ecologies ; Franklin, Animal Nation ; Ogden, “Beaver Diaspora” ; Riley, “Changing Legal Status of Cats” ; Celermajer and Wallach, “Fate of the Illegible Animal.” 11. See Franklin, “Adored.” 10. O’Gorman and Van Dooren, “Promises...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 456–459.
Published: 01 November 2017
... are welcomed: “nonnative invasive” species that make their own connections, such as the eastern grays in England, become targets for discipline, expulsion, and death. 2 Connectivity is a place-holder that seeks to capture these multiple forms of multispecies mobility. 3 It is normatively charged...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 259–263.
Published: 01 May 2016
... , and Sagan Dorion . Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species . New York : Basic Books , 2003 . Pooley Simon . “ The Entangled Relations of Humans and Nile Crocodiles in Africa, c.1840-1992 .” Environment and History ( 2015 , in press). Pooley Simon . “ Invasion...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 492–495.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of interest in the environmental humanities. Following in Quammen’s footsteps, 14 these researchers examine the moral status of creatures their cultures tell them to fear or loathe or simply ignore—the invasive species, the nuisance wildlife, the vermin and the pests, along with all those unfortunate...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., where it is traditionally (and ironically) screened after the last plane or ship departs leaving the wintering crew—like the men in the film—physically isolated for several months of darkness. Carpenter’s version of the story self-consciously emphasizes the alien’s invasive and disease-like qualities...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., and Society 10 ( 2014 ): 79 - 86 . Nagy Kelsey and Johnson Phillip David III eds. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species . Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Steffen Will , Grinevald Jacques...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . “ Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation .” Conservation and Society 9 , no. 4 ( 2011 ): 286 - 98 . 1 Thom van Dooren, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). 2 The term...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., colonialism and neoliberalism are ways of relating with land and water, relations that treat the earth as resource, dumping ground, and exploitable other. 32 In some cases these dominant relations have convinced Kānaka fisherpeople that Hawaiian monk seals constitute an invasive species introduced...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
... [ invasive species ] ahistorically assumes the previous existence of a static biota without intruders, in which relations among the constituent species were balanced, if not harmonious” (“Invasion/Invasive,” 173). 56. Royal Veterinary College, “European Origins for Fungus Killing Millions of North...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to our invasion. We also modify ecosystems through raccoon cull programs in response to disease panics. Yet, studies show that this population reduction strategy “may be insufficient to control the spread of infectious disease in mesopredators.” James C. Beasley, Zachary H. Olson, William S. Beatty, Guha...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... .” Cultural Anthropology 31 , no. 2 : ( 2016 ): 244 – 71 . doi.org/10.14506/ca31.2.05 . Atchison Jennifer , and Head Lesley . “ Eradicating Bodies in Invasive Plant Management .” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31 , no. 6 ( 2013 ): 951 – 68 . doi.org/10.1068/d17712...
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