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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Katharine Dow; Janelle Lamoreaux Abstract Contemporary concern about climate change has been accompanied by a resurgence in questions about what part human numbers play in environmental degradation and species loss. What does population mean, and how is this concept being put to use at a moment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to discuss a phenomenological approach common to any number of observation-based field biology disciplines (including, especially, ethology) and deep connections between human and animal subjectivities. And these connections, in turn, have implications for the environmental humanities, environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Desirée Kumpf Abstract Under the banner of green growth, a number of theories currently promote new models that seek to decouple economic growth from excessive resource use and its adverse ecological impacts. But how exactly can one generate profit without disturbing ecologies? Drawing...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in number and forthrightness after the First World War, highlighting the impact of the wider British questioning of prewar models of heroic masculinity on imperial adventure literature. My texts span the late nineteenth century up to the 1940s. The beginning of this period was when adventure writing first...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Olivia Angé Abstract The history of capitalism features a number of glorified characters, such as Frederick the Great and Antoine Parmentier, lauded for contributing to national prosperity by purportedly introducing the prolific potato to the masses. This article redirects our attention toward...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... In conclusion, I submit that while technological and managerial approaches have a place in addressing ecological problems, our predicament primarily calls for a drastic pulling back and scaling down of the human presence—welcoming limitations of our numbers, economies, forms of habitation, and uses of land...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the question of who is an authority on place contrasts in these two ecologically distinct places, and at different times in the period from 1945 to the present. The two cases demand very different scales of management, and build on different cultural traditions, but they share a surprising number...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Istvan Praet; Juan Francisco Salazar Abstract A growing number of researchers in the social sciences and the environmental humanities have begun to focus on the wider universe and how it is apprehended by modern cosmology. Today the extraterrestrial has become part of the remit of anthropologists...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and plumage from related seabirds used in contemporary auk reconstructions. The reanimated great auk lives to tell stories of ethographic entanglement and continues, through its presence in museum spaces, to provoke both thought and action in a time of unprecedented numbers of species extinctions. 5...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
... that this story exceeds containment, dispersed as it is across several fields of inquiry and a number of individual memories that go in and out of sync. Copyright: © Powys, Taylor and Probets 2013 2013 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Louise Hornby Abstract This article focuses on works by the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, who has recently produced a number of large-scale and immersive installations, such as Ice Watch (2014) and, most famously, The Weather Project (2003). His human-made environments situate the human subject...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 7. Chris Jordan, Gyre, 2009. Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean. Copyright Chris Jordan. Reproduced More
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Published: 01 November 2023
pollutants and runs downhill/down-watershed to the river at the lower end of the screen, increasing water pollution. Water flowing over hard surfaces (gray pixels) carries more pollution (visualized as larger circles). The graphs on the right plot erosion and number of projects (top graph) and water More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 292.
Published: 01 November 2023
... 79, line 3, the number should be −24.65 permille; on page 79, line 5, the number should be −24.70 permille; and on page 80, line 1, the number should be −27.31 permille. These errors have been corrected in the print and online versions of this article. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10422289 ...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 230–242.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the type of relationships between them.” 1 In this article, I approach sonic togetherness as acoustic assemblage from my position as an improviser and composer, multiply situated in various contingent and shifting relations to a number of listening and sound-producing entities. Combining reflection...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
... McPhee in his book Basin and Range , which narrates the experience of field geologists encountering the vastness of time made manifest in the rock formations they encounter. “Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time. Any number above a couple of thousand years—fifty thousand, fifty...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 341–358.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the most complex fluctuation is still finite. As such it is perfectly possible that a fluctuation with all the complexity and attributes of a thinking consciousness will occur. Cosmologists call these thinking fluctuations “Boltzmann Brains.” 19 On the other hand, however, an infinite number...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 263–269.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Michael S. Northcott Copyright © 2016 Michael S. Northcott 2016 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). In the encyclical Laudato si’ , 1 Pope Francis identifies a number of causes for the ecological crisis...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for a number of reasons. As ecocritic Antonia Mehnert notes, literature explicitly focused on climate change “gives insight into the ethical and social ramifications of this unparalleled environmental crisis, reflects on current political conditions that impede action on climate change, explores how risk...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... ways in which biosemiotic approaches, together with the biocentric perspectives and commoning practices theorized by a number of Latin American scholars, may make a valuable contribution to the counterapocalypse Zylinska proposes. Based in Buenos Aires, Joaquín Fargas has developed a series...
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