...’ definition of the environment. The author argues that contemporary ecological light-pollution research in greater Berlin can take place because of the site’s longer naturalcultural history, which includes the Nazi regime’s role in creating the nature reserve where Lake Stechlin and scientific infrastructure...

... does this constitutive contradiction do? In this article, I explore the slippery subjectivities of nuclear waste and nature at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Beginning with the Hanford Reach National Monument, I examine how this space is framed as both pristine habitat and waste...

... Biosphere Reserve contest their framing as nature trespassers, while they carry the political, affective, and physical labor of conserving a disappearing insect. They too care for this butterfly but with an emphasis on its forest relations. Based on ethnographic data collected among these two often-opposed...

...Kevan Klosterwill Abstract Do urban open spaces, whether comprised of small planting beds and gardens or larger parks and reserves, signal the juxtaposition of two worlds, two forms of life, one human and one natural and nonhuman? Or are those spaces necessarily embedded within the logics of real...

... pass by the term wilderness , according to Cronon, and be institutionalized as national parks and nature reserves. But environments are more than discursive objects. As Knut Nustad notes, they are also the outcome of long histories of struggle, with human as well as more-than-human actors. 47 I...

... increasingly privatised since the 1990s as governments have increasingly offered incentives to enable private landholders to manage nature conservation values. Since 1997, non-government organisations (NGOs) have been encouraged to purchase land for nature reserves through matching funds from the Natural...

... and the Indian Ocean, my quest is to understand how these small lizards tie into large webs of human-nature relationship, globalization, technological progress, and ecological crisis. Besides the scientists that I interviewed in German labs, Mauritian universities, and island nature reserves, the geckos...

... connections are championed as modes of management more suited to the Anthropocene than the nature-reserve fences of modernity: woodland corridors, toad tunnels, and squirrel rope bridges for the right type (red squirrels in the United Kingdom) capture the popular imagination. But not all connectivities...

... railways, motorways, and airports. Rot happens amid landfills, substations, sewage works, and the other eyesores of modern infrastructure that some of us are not supposed to see. 13 Rot even seems amiss in some of our designated wilds, at least in Western Europe. In parks and nature reserves...

... is known for its beautiful location next to the river Havel. Following an unsuccessful attempt to enter the landfill through the main gate, we had found an inconspicuous dirt road at the edge of the nature reserve that surrounds the landfill where we had inched our way into and had parked next to two older...

... attachment to shadow places enacts a critical ecology of place recognising the other not as menace, but as related. By the end of this very dry summer, she finds herself dreading what she might see when passing the last farm in the valley on the way to her house in the nature reserve. Overstocking...

... for Nature Protection ( Direktoratet for Naturforvaltning, DN). Acting both as scientists and as steward-activists, the monitors are granted some minor boons through their collaboration—including special dispensation to set up their camp within the restricted area of the nature reserve, not to mention free...

...Figure 1. Silvery timber litters the landscape after a beaver dam has flooded the forest in Karukinka Nature Reserve, Isla Grande, Chile. Photo by author ...

... (1999) by Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu), an influential Aotearoa / New Zealand, poet whose ancestral lands include the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve. 3 Through the Western binary of nature and culture, night can appear as a natural, threatened phase that ideally could...

... Got to Do with It? A Situated Historical Perspective on Socio-Natural Commodities .” Development and Change 43 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 79 – 104 . Ponta do Ouro . Partial Marine Reserve Management Plan, Version 2, 2011 (hard copy accessed June 1 , 2019 ). Pooley Simon...

... was affirmative about the economic potentials of F. elastica , the colonial government could not immediately assess the natural reserves of this resource, as most regions beyond Bengal were not under colonial rule. The first official surveys to map the Indigenous rubber tree were conducted by the colonial...

... microbes of no ethical relevance in themselves.” 56 While reaching for analogy to environmental ethics, Cockell fails to account for the potentially devastating consequences of environmental changes that both tree felling and permanent changes to planetary environments can engender. Natural reserves...

... * * * In the years that followed, the forests that hosted the monarch colonies were declared a protected reserve, and made off-limits to the local people who had long depended on them for their livelihood. At the same time, in an irony seen most everywhere that nature tourism takes hold, the region became a magnet...