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Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940
Book excerpt from Turning to Nature in Germany by John Alexander Williams.
“Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living with the Non-Human”
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
“Dave Foreman: Wise Guy”
An essay by Bron Taylor on Dave Foreman first published in the edited volume Wildeor: The Wild Life and Living Legacy of Dave Foreman (Essex Editions, 2023).
The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.
Protecting Wild Spaces and Species (Sweden) | A 360º Visual Journey
Jonathan Carruthers Jones’s 360º video takes you on a journey with multiple hikers to the Arctic Circle, the Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, to understand what wilderness means to people. He concludes that even though it is a much-contested term—with supposedly lots of personal differences in opinions—people share a lot in common in their views of what wilderness is.
Munich and the Isar | Ecopolis München
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
Defining Wilderness—Japanese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.