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Environmentalism from Below
Appraising the Efficacy of Small-Scale and Subaltern Environmentalist Organizations By Marianna Dudley As the recent World Congress of Environmental History in Guimaraes (Portugal) confirmed, our discipline is a truly international endeavour. But while conferences provide opportunities to present work, discuss ideas and make new friends, busy schedules make it hard to consolidate these experiences into…
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Photo of the Week: Guillermo Ospina
Boliche is one of the few remaining peasants in the paramo of La Nevera, a zone located 3,000 meters above sea level (4,200 m. max.) near the Las Hermosas National Park in the peaks of the Central range of the Colombian Andes. Accompanied by his two dogs, an old radio, and a white horse, and…
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Photo of the Week: Tobias Schiefer
I photographed this European Green Toad (Bufo viridis viridis Laurenti, 1768) in Riem, on the outskirts of Munich. The primary habitats of the European Green Toad in Germany are sand and gravel beds on the floodplains of rivers, a dynamic landscape due to the regular input of virgin soil and freshwater. Due to river regulation…
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Exploring the Po River Delta: An Experiment in Digital Multimedia Storytelling
By Giacomo Parrinello (Link to multimedia map) One of the most important things I have learnt over these years of research is that the “archives of the feet” is as vital to history as it is to geography. Historians, and especially environmental historians, should not write of a place they have not seen in person.…
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Help the RCC Translate the Anthropocene!
The RCC is putting together a major exhibition on the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum. The opening display will contain a number of quotes about the Anthropocene from major scholars. We would like to display these quotes in as many languages as possible. So if you are a native speaker of a language other than…
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Social Learning at the Osterseen Nature Reserve
Inaugural Place-Based Workshop Explores How Disciplines Read Landscapes Post by Johanna Bär, Adrian Franco, Rob Emmett, and Elena Torres Ruiz Photo credits: Anna Rühl Last month, a group of two dozen RCC graduate students, visiting fellows, and LMU faculty traveled to the Osterseen nature reserve for our inaugural place-based workshop. The Osterseen are a chain…
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Socio-Politico-Economic Problems in the Hilly Areas of Bangladesh: the Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
By Khaled Misbahuzzaman The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) make up the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. This region shares international boundaries with the Indian states of Tripura to the north and Mizoram to the east, and the Chin and Rakhain states of Myanmar to the south-east and south. The vegetation is lush and tropical with natural…
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The Long History of “Going Wild” in Erris, Ireland
Wilderness is not just a place. It is also a concept that hides power relations. By Shane McCorristine Erris, a region of County Mayo in the west of Ireland, has won the Irish Times award for the Best Place to Go Wild in Ireland 2014. But what does it really mean for a place to…
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The RCC in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) recently published an article about the Rachel Carson Center’s successful evaluation. The article described the history of the Rachel Carson Center and its goal of becoming the leading international and interdisciplinary center for environmental researchers, with a strong focus on the humanities. It also notes that the RCC constitutes an important…