“Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons”
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.
In this article, Ranjini Murali, Ajay Bijoor, and Charudutt Mishra highlight the role of women in the governance of the commons and point to the nuanced and variable roles found within this gender group.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Tom Philpott is interviewed on his book, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ian M. Miller is interviewed on her new book, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jonathan Robins is interviewed on his recent book, Oil Palm: A Global History.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this edited volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present.
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
This book explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.