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The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological ...
Enguerran Macia   +8 more
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General Introduction to Environmental Humanities in India

open access: yesLagoonscapes, 2021
The article offers a general overview of the ecological debate and Environmental Humanities in India. After an introduction on the legacy of Gandhian ecological thought and contemporary literature, the essay focuses on the most discussed themes of the
Beggiora, Stefano
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Introduction: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change

open access: yesHumanities, 2020
The development of the environmental humanities as an interdisciplinary formation is a response to an ecological and planetary crisis [...]
David Higgins   +2 more
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Shaping Landscapes: Thinking On the Interactions between People and Nature in Inter- and Postdisciplinary Narratives

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
This article addresses broad and plural concepts of landscape, considering its diversity of meanings and uses, which go far beyond its environmental and geographical connotations. It discusses the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural
Ana Cristina Roque   +2 more
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Worlds of Meaning at the Edge of Extinction: Conservation Behaviour and the Environmental Humanities

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
We are living in the midst of a period of mass extinction. All around us, diverse species of animals and plants are disappearing, often largely unnoticed. However, this is also a period in which, on a daily basis, new and fascinating insights into animal
Thom van Dooren
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How Nostalgia Drives and Derails Living with Wildland Fire in the American West

open access: yesFire, 2022
Representations of fire in the U.S. are often tinged with nostalgia: for unburned landscapes, for less frequent fires, for more predictable fire behavior, or for a simpler, more harmonious relationship between human communities and wildfire.
Jennifer Ladino   +3 more
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What Kind of Environmental Writing?

open access: yesTeksty Drugie, 2023
The starting point for this paper is the growing popularity of environmental writing as a scholarly, journalistic, literary practice. Four issues are analyzed: 1) the presence of environmental writing in university curricula and the problems of ...
Ewa Rewers
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Arcs of Fire: Pyrophilia in Iracema, O que arde and Huachicolero

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
This essay examines three films that express a particular affinity with fire: Ircaema: Uma Transa Amazônica (1974), O que arde (2019) and Huachicolero (2019).
John H. Trevathan
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Paradigm shifts for a planetary emergency: Towards an anthropocenography for urban coastal research at False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2022
Reflecting on a recent three-decade review of the social-ecological sciences of False Bay in Cape Town that was co-authored by 32 South African based scientists, this essay draws on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and ...
Lesley Green
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Human Health and Environmental Inequalities [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 2006
▪ Abstract  In this review, we provide an introduction to the topics of environmental justice and environmental inequality. We provide an overview of the dimensions of unequal exposures to environmental pollution (environmental inequality), followed by a discussion of the theoretical literature that seeks to explain the origins of this phenomenon.
Robert J, Brulle, David N, Pellow
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