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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that belonging can be “singularized” to a particular location or landscape. Building on this idea, I examine the encounters of Gorkha tea plantation workers, students, and city dwellers with landslides, a crumbling colonial infrastructure, and urban wildlife. While many analyses of subnational movements in India...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., and cultivating it had been either impossible or would have required large investments in additional labor and processing facilities. Besides, reforestation also benefits tea production, since tree roots percolate into the subsoil and stabilize it, preventing the landslides to which the Darjeeling region is prone...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., which tell them not only the age but also the way the layers were deposited—by wind, erosion, evaporation, landslides, river flow, volcanic activity, and other exciting geological events. Currently there are several advanced technologies that help scientists identify these factors and locate potential...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of our Mother Nature,” the elements wreak havoc in the form of natural calamities such as landslides (earth), floods (water), forest fires (fire), storms (air), and contagious diseases that cross borders (space). 40 Neshar repeatedly portrayed these reactions as a partly self-destructive yet...
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When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... exacerbated by real estate speculation and looming development plans by the provincial authorities. In addition to plastic pollution and deforestation, climate change is of imminent concern, leading to more and more severe tropical storms, floods, and landslides, which regularly claim human and nonhuman lives...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2025
... such as amunas , an ancestral water harvesting system comprising artificial channels cut into the ground to divert rainwater during rainy seasons, which are still used to recharge aquifers and prevent erosion and landslides, and for water retention and irrigation. A mixture of nature-based solutions...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and underground roots matures over the years, the soil and plant ecologies are strengthened against erosion and landslides. The aerial roots of the tree, when still pliable, are gently woven across the river through a process known in Khasi as iaki-thied , or “guiding the roots.” Once guided, the bridges exist...
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Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2016
... force; but overall, his perspective was that of a British farmer and most often focused on the slow processes of sedimentation and erosion. 13 While smaller quakes, landslides, and sinkholes occasionally garnered attention, major geologic fault lines and volcanoes were rare enough that European...
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