“A Political Ecology of Desire and Illicit Trade”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
Jan Zalasiewicz presents the mounting evidence of the Anthropocene as a proposed geological epoch and points to the possible trajectories of planet Earth.
Julia Adeney Thomas explores three types of narrative that are emerging as people try to get to grips with the Anthropocene and their potential for steering our future course.
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
A grippingly perceptive tale of changing social attitudes and scientific practices.
This article addresses the deep history of pest crops and plant diseases in historical agriculture development.
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors describe fish resources in St. Petersburg and Vienna and their role in urban life from different perspectives. Fisheries constituted an important part of local economic activities and fishers—both poor professionals and wealthy leisure anglers—were very visible in the cities’ crowds, at their markets, and on the banks of their rivers and canals.
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?