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ecology
The Transformative Craft of Environmental History: Perspectives on Australian Scholarship
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work
About this issue
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.
Content
Of Mice and Men: Ecologies of Care in a Climate Chamber
Veit Braun explores the troubling and often contradictory nature of care, revealing the restrictions of simplifying the duality of caring or violent states.
Howarth, J. M., "The Crisis of Ecology: A Phenomenological Perspective"
J. M. Howarth outlines how phenomenological enquiry can reveal and criticise modernist assumptions, while traditional phenomenological notions might form a more eco-friendly framework for the value bases of interactions within nature.
Preston, Christopher J., "Intrinsic Value and Care: Making Connections through Ecological Narratives"
Christopher J. Preston explores differing stances taken by supporters of the intrinsic value and the care approaches to environmental ethics, and looks for common ground.
Wissenburg, Marcel, "Global and Ecological Justice: Prioritising Conflicting Demands"
Marcel Wissenburg argues that ‘global and ecological justice’ represents an informal combination of four distinct and sometimes conflicting ideas: global justice, protection of the ecology, sustainability and sustainable growth.
How Did Infields Shape the Scandinavian Cultural Landscape?
Eriksson and Arnell address the ecological and cultural effects of the Swedish infield system in Scandinavia. Their essay sheds light on how the human construction and management of infields maintained a spatial continuity that greatly altered, and continues to impact, how humans and other organisms have developed.
More Than Honey
This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
The Marion Lake Story: Defeating the Mighty Phragmite
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.