environmental humanities
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Provocations of the Planetary: Ed Roberson’s Poetry of Scalar Disjunction
By Thomas Storey: The African American poet Ed Roberson’s (b. 1939) work engages with this incommensurability, this simultaneous continuity and discontinuity, by facing up to ways in which we are alienated from our planetary being. His poetry therefore offers a response to alterity, opacity, and the sublime realization of one’s place within a magnitude that…
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Nature and Me Make Two: The Genesis of Biophilia
By Dennis Liu: While the identities we don are deeply personal, their effects resonate in public, profoundly impacting our families and friends, our communities, and ultimately nations and societies. Two twentieth-century scholars, German-US social psychologist Erich Fromm (1900–1980) and US biologist E. O. Wilson (1930–2022), despite highly divergent backgrounds and training, converged on the importance…
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part IV
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part III
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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On the Scenic Beauty of Santiago: What Does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Know About Aesthetics?
By Floris Winckel and Alice Murphy: An Ecosystem Services article from 2017 warned that under current trends in urbanization, rising temperatures, and wildfires, Santiago de Chile could suffer an alarming 18 to 28 percent drop in scenic beauty. This statistic may surprise readers. Some may find it odd, even inappropriate, to focus on aesthetics in…
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On Moral Grounds? Carbon Futures for Lowland Peat
By Aneurin Merrill-Glover: Across Europe, peatlands have nurtured sophisticated and distinctive socio-ecological systems for thousands of years. The process of restoring these unique landscapes—or “peatscapes”—is one that is neither strictly ecological nor exclusively ordered as part of a top-down international response to global warming. On the contrary, peatland restoration as a form of climate-change mitigation…
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part II
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part I
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Russian Environmental Politics: Reading Between the Lines—New Climate, New Strategy: Betting on the Revival of Mammoths over the End of Fossil Fuels
By Vita Lacis: On 26 October 2023, Vladimir Putin signed a revised version of the Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation—a high-profile document that determines the climate policies of the state on all levels, from international to municipal. Although only an updated version of the previous climate doctrine, released in 2009, the Doctrine illuminates the…