Exploring City Wetlands: Small Resilient Unruly (Story Map)
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Emily Gorman is interviewed on her recent book, Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
The article explores the complex socio-environmental relations of small-scale inland fishing by using the Pantanal wetland in Brazil as a case study and attempts to deconstruct environmental narratives behind top-down fishing management practices.
The authors compare the administrative regulations and actions aimed at protecting and conserving isolated wetlands in ten states along the Mississippi River corridor. They highlight the necessity for reliable data for at-risk wetlands to foster conservation practices.
Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.
The author investigates the lives of Tibetan pastoralists in alpine wetlands, how they understand wetlands, and how politics, market forces, and religious norms cooperate to produce their relationships with their livestock and their lands.