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Walden; or Life in the Woods
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years in a cabin amidst woodland near Walden Pond.
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Go Ganges!
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
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"Environmental Politics and Place Authenticity Protection"
The paper proposes to differently outline modernity, by adopting a heterogeneous geography standpoint and post-modern hybrid networks theory in order to overcome the problematic political consequences of the classic approach of environmental politics.
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Bitumen Exploration and the Southern Re-Inscription of Northeastern Alberta: 1875–1967
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
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The Sidoarjo Mudflow and the Muddiness of an Environmental Disaster
This article describes an ongoing environmental disaster in Indonesia, where a mud volcano has been inundating an ever-increasing area.
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Map: CB&Q map of Chicago, 1880
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
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The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL)
The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for scholars and scientists interested in humanities perspectives on human-environment interaction.
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"(Re)Interpreting Exotic Plantation Forestry in 1920s New Zealand"
The author examines the role of plantation forestry through the shift within the New Zealand State Forest Service from an orthodox state forestry model to one favoring large-scale exotic plantations.
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"Power and Purity: Nature as Resource in a Troubled Society"
Gremaud’s article analyses representations of nature as brand and resource in current Icelandic society, through an interdisciplinary approach involving cultural geography and visual methodologies.