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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Sketch of the joint root system of the F. elastica trees (trees represented as circles, twenty-five feet apart) at Charduar, drawn by J. Mckee, officiating conservator of forests, Assam, 1893. “Proceedings of the Inspector General of Forests for February 1896, Rubber Plantations More
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Marcus Hall Abstract Having evolved in a dynamic solar system, all life on earth has adapted to and depends on recurring and repeating cycles of light, heat, and gravity. Our sleep cycles, reproductive cycles, and emotional cycles are all linked in varying ways to planetary motion even though we...
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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 2. A Talya Water System installed in an Amish barn. Photograph by author. More
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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 3. A Talya Water System informational card distributed by the Amish salesman. Photograph by author. More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 6 The characteristic time scales of some key processes in the Earth system: atmospheric composition (blue), climate system (red), ecological system (green), and socio-economic system (purple). Image courtesy of the IPCC, Third Assessment Report, Figure 5.1. 42 More
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 2. System map of Southern California Edison Company circa 1926. Source: C.B. Carlson and Harold Michener, “The Vincent 220-Kv. Transmission Line: Engineering and Construction Features,” Journal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 45, no. 12 (1926): 1215-1229, on 1216 More
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of the Big Creek system circa 1924. Source: Harold Michener, “Description of System and Operating Experiences,” Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 43 (1924): 1222-1225, on 1223. Reprinted with permission of the Institute of Electrical More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of extinction studies to embrace the domain of language. Sidestepping the human/nonhuman dichotomy, we understand that language straddles the social and the biological, the human and the nonhuman. Arguably a system with evolutionary roots in our primate heritage, it is also a lens through which we apprehend...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. “Location of Ore Bodies along the Three Vein Systems, Guanajuato Mining District.” Reproduced from Wandke and Martínez, “Guanajuato Mining District.” More
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
... sources, I detail the history of the bioregenerative life-support system, a system in which simple organisms—most commonly algae—would inhabit the spacecraft and, through a series of interspecies symbioses, maintain cabin conditions and sustain astronaut life. By homing in on the maintenance practices...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 72–100.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Figure 2. A Talya Water System installed in an Amish barn. Photograph by author. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... on ethnographic data from Indian tea plantations that are in the process of being converted to organic agriculture, this article examines specific attempts to alter the intersection of vegetal and financial growth. As a cultivation system, plantations intensify the manipulation of plant growth for monetary ends...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hannah Rachel Cole Abstract The biologist Merlin Sheldrake has named the tendency for humans to privilege plants to the exclusion of fungi “plant-centrism.” Connecting Sheldrake’s claim to critiques of the Caribbean plantation system, this article argues that plant-centrism is inherent...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a way of relating to the physical environment, and rituals help people respond to problems such as coastal erosion and overfishing. However, there is no evidence suggesting that this particular animistic belief system has given way to environmentalist action, let alone induced systemic change. Animistic...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
... uncompensated medical care that targets “superusers” of the US health care system. The case scrutinizes the operative truths, procedural rationalities, and absurd reductions performed by this administrative system that sorts people in terms of cost and risk. It shows how such administrative strategies result...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... revolution,” allowing global capitalism to overcome past limits and thus move through systemic crises. References Arrighi Giovanni . Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-first Century . Brooklyn : Verso Press , 2007 . Blondel-Megrelis Marika . “ Liebig or How to Popularize...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... tool dependency. Writing against the discourse of Yellow Eco-peril, which depicts such events (in both academic and journalistic writings) through a racialized Eco-Otherness, we offer a counter-politics to reconnect mainland China to the very systems of globalized production and consumption—the deep...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Waterworld swirl together to submerge systems of power and privilege and drench binaries. Ultimately, Waterworld ’s queer ecology helps morph what and how it means to live in a flooded future as speculative seascapes seep into everyday contemporary climate life. [email protected] [email protected]...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to override temporalities and contain species in unfamiliar habitats, in the name of efficiency, may be the source of vulnerability in such production systems rather than their strength. But keeping fish in a consolidated place and smoothing temporalities in the name of efficiency is not seamless. For one...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... cheese possible. The article highlights the cultivation of practices of attentiveness, focusing on the use of Obsalim, a system for managing ruminant health by interpreting the “language of the rumen.” Thinking about and responding to the rumen’s microbial communities offers productive possibilities...