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Ecosphere, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract As we contemplate the future of forest landscapes under changing climate conditions and land‐use demands, there is increasing value in studying historic forest conditions and how these landscapes have changed following past disturbances. Historic landscape paintings are a potential source of data on preindustrial forests with highly detailed ...
Dana R. Warren +6 more
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Religious Ethics as a Social Practice
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 386-405, September 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) was established at a particular moment in the United States in the early 1970s. This article investigates how that moment—in the institutional milieu of academic theology and religious studies in which the (JRE) emerged—influenced its founding.
Alda Balthrop‐Lewis
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Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside
Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 544-563, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In connection to concerns about, for example, climate change, peak oil, pandemics and the depopulation of many rural areas, there has been a counter‐migration from urban to rural areas in past decades. An important part of this counter‐migration is the so‐called 'back‐to‐the‐land' migration of former urban residents who move to rural areas and
Emil Sandström
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The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 96-108, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT More and more research is showing how different environments can lead to greater or lower creative skills. The purpose of this concept paper is to introduce a novel application of the optimal‐level of arousal model that could address inconsistencies present in the literature.
Erik Gustafsson
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Radical shift in the genetic composition of New England chicory populations
Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 391-399, February 2023., 2023 Populations of chicory today, are different from those that first colonized New England. All herbarium specimens, including one by Asa Gray, collected between 1848 and 1970, form a genetic group, distinct from nearly all contemporary collections. This shift in genetic composition likely reflect dispersal and selection to changing land use patterns that
Tomáš Závada +3 more
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 100-111, January 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article addresses a failed tax lottery in the country of Georgia's rapid yet shaky political and economic development. The purpose of a tax lottery is to formalize transactions and increase tax compliance. It aims to motivate consumers in any commercial transaction to ask for a receipt qua lottery ticket and ensure that businesses pay ...
Lotta Björklund Larsen
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Mendip Hills (Somerset, UK) boasts its pastoral landscape, but are also vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding due to climate change. Abstract Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli‐fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub‐genre of ecopoetry which
Chao Xie
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Reclaiming A. D. Gordon's deep eco‐nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 85-100, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This study seeks to add to the burgeoning literature on the relations between nationalism and environmentalism by examining the ideas of A. D. Gordon (1856–1922). Gordon is not well‐known outside the realm of Zionist scholarship. Nonetheless, a close re‐examination of his ideas reveals that Gordon offers a hybrid brand of deep eco‐national ...
Asaf Shamis
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Henry David Thoreau's De-genera Description
RSA Journal, 1995 This essay focuses on the relationship between "description" and "narration" in the works of Henry David Thoreau. Through his intertextual universe - that of such Natural History writers as Charles Darwin, Gilbert White or John Muir - Thoreau adopts in ...
Gigliola Nocera
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From fellow traveller to eco-warrior: the translation and reception of Thoreau in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 First published in 1854, Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, has been translated into many languages. The last three decades have witnessed a growing number of Chinese versions of Walden, together with an upsurge of interest in this classic American book ...
Aihua Liu, Ying Zhu
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