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• Avant-propos
• L'épreuve des limites
• Rupture générique
• Renouer avec les forces du cosmos
• Introduction
• La fête des semailles
• Forces du devenir
• Pouvoirs mutants
• Trois paradoxes
• La production inerte
• Le fantôme d'un langage pur
• Écologie générale
• Nomos de la Terre et Nomos racial
• Fissuration spatiale
• Dialectique de la vitalité et de la mobilité
• Prise des terres
• Puissance métamorphique
• Le corps démembré
• La seconde création
• L'œuf du monde
• Élasticité et malléabilité
• Miniaturisation et numérisation
• La totalité magique
• La pesée des vies
• Êtres techniques et objets vivants
• Du capital comme champ magnétique
• Colonialisme techno-moléculaire
• La dialectique de l'imbrication et de la séparation
• Vie et mobilité
• La raison en procès
• La traversée du miroir
• Captation
• Transmigration des temps
• Trame planétaire
• La communauté des dissemblables
• Droit au futur
• La dernière utopie
• Conscience planétaire
• Le Tout-Monde
• Désir de brutalité
• Du Tout-Monde au Tout planétaire
• Conclusion
• La graine et le limon
• La réfection du monde.

"Traiter de la Terre, c'est avoir à l'esprit une chaîne symbiotique : celle du vivant, dans ses innombrables déploiements. Les humains, les espèces animales et végétales, les microbes, bactéries et virus, les corps inorganiques et les substances minérales ainsi que les dispositifs technologiques et autres appareillages artificiels font inséparablement partie de cette chaîne du vivant. Mais c'est aussi le cas, du moins dans les pensées animistes africaines, de toutes les forces invisibles, des génies, des esprits et des masques. Prenant fermement appui sur l'insondable richesse de ces pensées, Achille Mbembe propose dans cet essai une réflexion stimulante sur la Terre, ses devenirs, et surtout la sorte de communauté qu'elle forme avec la cohorte des espèces animées et inanimées qui l'habitent, y ont trouvé refuge ou y séjournent. Il montre comment notre relation fondamentale à la Terre ne peut être que celle de l'habitant et du passant. C'est en tant qu'habitant et passant qu'elle nous accueille et nous abrite, qu'elle entretient les traces de notre passage, celles qui parlent en notre nom et en mémoire de qui nous aurons été, avec d'autres et au milieu d'eux. C'est à ce titre qu'elle est la toute dernière des utopies, la pierre angulaire d'une nouvelle conscience planétaire."--Page 4 of cover.

• Defining and understanding environmental sustainability
• The current state of environmental degradation
• The fundamental causes of environmental degradation
• A strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable resource-based economy
• Building public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability
• Changing the politics and communication of environmental sustainability
• Conclusion: The long transition to environmental sustainability is already underway

"Those of us in the developed world have a far greater environmental impact than people in the developing world, but there is great political pressure in the developing world to increase material wealth. And that political pressure will lead to increased environmental impacts. Our political stability and security depend on the maintenance of material wealth where it exists and economic growth where people are poor. But to achieve those goals, we must learn how to construct a high throughput economy that does not destroy our planet's ecosystems. This is the major theme of this book: How do we realistically get from the current economic paradigm to one that permits economic growth while protecting the planet's ecosystems? To achieve the transition to environmental sustainability, we must undertake the following five actions: 1. Research, measure and understand the current state of environmental degradation. 2. Understand the causes of environmental degradation. 3. Develop a strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable-resource-based economy. 4. Build public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability. 5. Change the politics, advocacy, and communication of environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher

• Defining and understanding environmental sustainability
• The current state of environmental degradation
• The fundamental causes of environmental degradation
• A strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable resource-based economy
• Building public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability
• Changing the politics and communication of environmental sustainability
• Conclusion: The long transition to environmental sustainability is already underway

"This book seeks to answer two fundamental questions: Why do we keep destroying nature when science makes it clear that in doing so we risk our own destruction? How can we stop doing so and regain the unity of humans and nature? First, the book shows that the inability of modern society to modify its relationship with nature has its roots in the collective fictions that have gradually shaped it since the Neolithic revolution. The collective fictions that underpin modernity include, in particular, the subject-object duality, the matter-mind duality, the primacy of rationality, and the superiority of the human species over all other living beings. These deeply ingrained fictions prevent us from acting in the word in agreement with the needs and knowledge that we have. Second, the book argues that humans have a nature that defines them as a unique species beyond their cultural differences, and this nature is not made only of flesh and bones, but also of a set of fundamental needs. Fundamental needs connect humans with nature spontaneously because they are the manifestation of life in them. They also make it possible to re-establish the unity of body and mind and of the different forms of knowledge and to give the economy a new direction, focused on the development of the human being and of its living environment. Challenging our collective fictions and reconnecting with our deepest nature is essential if we are to overcome the current ecological crisis and allow life on Earth to flourish"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• The planet and the political
• The pandemic and our sense of time
• The historicity of things, including humans
• Staying with the present

"The book opens with a discussion of the pandemic, then investigates the modern origins of the separation between "natural" and "human" histories, and what may be at stake in that separation. Does having different worlds make it difficult for humans to deal with a planet that is one?"-- Provided by publisher

• Preface Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Introduction: The growing anthropocene consensus Julia Adeney Thomas
• Part I. Strata and Stories: 1. Science: Old and new patterns of the anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz
• 2. Humanities and social sciences: Human stories and the anthropocene earth system Julia Adeney Thomas
• Part II. One Anthropocene: Many Stories: 3. Earth system science: Gravity, the earth system and the anthropocene Will Steffen
• 4. Deep History and disease: Germs and humanity's rise to planetary dominance Kyle Harper
• 5. Anthropology: Colonialism, indigeneity, and wind power in the anthropocene Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
• 6. The ascent of the anthropoi: a story Amitav Ghosh
• 7. Politics in the anthropocene Manuel Arias-Maldonado
• 8. Very recent history and the nuclear anthropocene Kate Brown
• 9. Stratigraphy: Finding global markers in a small Canadian lake Francine McCarthy
• 10. Curating the anthropocene at Berlin's house of world culture Bernd Scherer
• Part III. Future Habitations: 11. Anthropocene ethics, as seen from a Mars mission: a story Clive Hamilton
• 12. Mutualistic cities of the near future Mark Williams, Julia Adeney Thomas, Gavin Brown, Minal Pathak, Moya Burns, Will Steffen, John Clarkson and Jan Zalasiewicz
• Afterword: Jurgen Renn and Christoph Rosol.
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Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. 'Right' in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures.
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• Introduction Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, and Thao Phan
• 1. 1080 Courtney Addison
• 2. Carbon Timothy Neale
• 3. Cement Eli Elinoff
• 4. Cheese Xenia Cherkaev, Heather Paxson, and Stefan Helmreich
• 5. Copper Manuel Tironi
• 6. Ice Alexis Rider
• 7. Kerosphere Emelie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and Zoe Todd
• 8. Lithium Scott Wark
• 9. Mould Alison Kenner and Sarah Stalcup
• 10. Mylar Derek P. McCormack
• 11. Seeds Xan Chacko
• 12. Sperm Janelle Lamoreaux and Ayo Wahlberg
• 13. Strontium Brad Bolman
• 14. Tectonics Zeynep Oguz
• 15. Testosterone J.R. Latham and Kate Seear
• 16. Virus Frederic Keck
• 17. Elements-to-Come Thao Phan
• Contributors Index.
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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.
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• 1. Ouvrir les yeux sur le XXIe siècle
• Haut Bas Fragile
• Entre nature et culture
• Les tentacules de l'histoire
• La confiscation des couleurs
• Poésie périurbaine
• L'éternité toc de l'agriculture intensive
• "la chaleur pénètre au cœur de la montagne - témoignage de Bertrand Delapierre, réalisateur et alpiniste
• "au cœur de la forêt, je ne me sens ni un intrus, ni un envahisseur - témoignage de jakub Rok, chercheur et activiste polonais
• 2. Les deuils de lieux
• Ces paysages qui font partie de nous
• Au commencement était le déracinement
• Les lieux peuvent-ils renaître
• "là où il subsiste des animaux en milieu naturel, le tourisme tend à se développer - témoignage de Pamela Carzon, chercheuse en biologie marine habitant la Polynésie
• "les animaux, je vois de l'espoir au fond de leurs yeux - témoignage de Picket Chabwedzeka, ranger au Zimbabwe
• 3. Rencontrer (encore) l'animal sauvage
• Nous ne sommes pas seuls
• La bibliothèque comme ultime réserve
• Anatomie de la rencontre
• L'orchestre naturel
• "le Bouddha, est la nature - témoignage de Genyû Sôkyû, moine zen et écrivain japonais
• "profiter du jour présent - témoignage de Thomassie Mangiok, habitant du Nunavik, Canada
• 4. Comment le réchauffement climatique fait fondre l'esthétique d'Emmanuel Kant
• Des cigales en hiver
• Le beau fait-il bon ménage avec le bien ?
• Théorie de la déception
• "en apparence, la majesté des lieux est intacte - témoignage de Xavier Lazzaro, écologiste lacustre établi en Bolivie
• "les guerres modifient le comportement des gens vis-à-vis des lieux - témoignage de Josaphat Rubenga, écologiste congolais
• 5. A quoi ressemblera l'avenir ?
• La mobilisation des affects
• Un argument métaphysique.

"Voilà un geste que nous avons tous fait : nous nous apprêtons à prendre une photographie d'un paysage, mais il y a un pylône. Qu'importe, nous cadrons de façon à ce que ce détail gênant n'apparaisse pas sur l'image. Le véritable panorama qui nous entoure - avec ses routes, ses lotissements, ses traces multiples de la civilisation industrielle -, nous refusons de le voir. La littérature écologique, qui chante les grands espaces et la rencontre avec les animaux sauvages, contribue largement à nous maintenir dans l'illusion que nous vivons au cœur d'une nature vierge. Mais ce monde-là n'existe plus, ou seulement dans des zones circonscrites par l'humain, les réserves naturelles. Bien des paysages de notre enfance n'existent déjà plus. Cet essai ose affronter les questions qui dérangent, et qu'il n'est plus possible d'esquiver : à l'heure du réchauffement climatique et de l'Anthropocène, quels liens sensoriels et émotionnels pouvons-nous tisser avec notre environnement ? Quel type de plaisir et d'émerveillement pouvons-nous encore y trouver ? Pourra-t-on ressusciter les paysages disparus ? En nous faisant voyager de la mer Baltique au lac Titicaca, en passant par les collines de Bourgogne, Taïwan ou la passe de Tiputa, ce livre nous ouvre les yeux sur la nature abîmée. Une lucidité d'autant plus urgente qu'elle ne conduit ni à l'apathie, ni à la tristesse, mais à l'engagement."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introducción / Ángeles Alberto-Villavicencio, Alejandro Vallina Rodríguez
• Propuesta metodológica para la integración conjunta del paisaje histórico y actual. Retos y oportunidades en un mundo digital / Alejandro Vallina Rodríguez, Laura Garcia Juan, Angel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta y Concepción Camarero Bullón
• Decodificación multiescalar del paisaje cardenista en el occidente mexicano / Carlos Arredondo León y Ma. Guadalupe Ramos García
• El paisaje festivo y los jardines de la comunidad de El Maye. Las flores en los jardines "hnähnú" / Estefanía Sánchez Zúñiga y Andrea Berenice Rodríguez Figueroa
• Paisajes Aluviales urbanos. Prácticas, percepciones y valoraciones polisémicas sobre el río Mololoa / Luis Navarrete Valencia y Carlos Enrique Flores Rodríguez
• Entre Portugal y Mozambique. Paisaje y signos de identidad territorial en la música de Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988) / Justino Losada Gómez
• El análisis de la percepción del paisaje. Despliegue de aromas y sonidos en la Zona Metropolitana La Piedad (ZMLP) / Ángeles Alberto-Villavicencio
• Una aproximación a la percepción polisensorial del paisaje urbano de Jiquilpan, Michoacán / Noé Casas Ruiz y Omar Ernesto Roque Bernal

This book is part of a series of publications produced as a result of various events, in particular, the Coloquio Pensamiento y herramientas contemporáneas del paisaje, as well as the 3rd. Coloquio Paisaje, ordenamiento y territorio en el occidente Michoacano, held on November 15 and 16, 2018 at the Centro de Estudios de Geografía Humana of El Colegio de Michoacán. The background of this event goes back to 2016, when the Academic Unit of Regional Studies of the Coordination of Humanities of the UNAM (sede Jiquilpan) promoted the Coloquio Paisaje, ordenamiento y territorio, with the purpose of bringing together the scientific community and landscape experts to discuss the multiple academic proposals, methodological and instrumental approaches built for their analysis, such as resources and methodological tools for planning or territorial management with inter and multidisciplinary perspectives. This colloquium was followed by another in 2017, with the same name. For the following year, in order to continue the academic dialogue and incorporate research experiences from groups from other latitudes, the Department of Geography of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and institutions of western Michoacán, including: theCentro de Estudios de Geografía Humana of El Colegio de Michoacán; the Academic Unit of Regional Studies of the Coordination of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Jiquilpan (UAER-COHU-UNAM, Jiquilpan), as well as the Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIDIR, IPN), with the purpose of building a plaraforma and the sharing of discourses, methodological proposals and case studies on the landscape

Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet

• Introduction : Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean Studies / David Fedman
• The Korean Peninsula : A Brief Biography in Maps / Marc Los Huertos and Albert L. Park
• A State of Ranches and Forests : The Environmental Legacy of the Mongolian Empire / John S. Lee
• Dammed Fish : Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River / Joseph Seeley
• The Politics of Frugality : Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth Century Korea / Sooa Im McCormick
• Between Memory and Amnesia : Seoul's Nanjido Landfill, 1978-1993 / Hyojin Pak
• North Korea Caught Between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism / Ewa Eriksson Fortier & Suzy Kim
• Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture / Anders Riel Muller (Yeonjun Song)
• The "Ecozombies" of South Korean Cinema : Consumerism, Carnivores, and Ecocriticism / Lindsey Jolivette
• Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea / Yonjae Paik
• Gotjawal : The Promise of Becoming Wild / Jeongsu Shin
• South Korea's Nuclear-Energy Entanglements : Contested 'Long-term Stewardship' and the Ethical Timescales of Ecological Democracy / Nan Kim
• Epilogue : On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation / Albert L. Park and Eleana J. Kim.

"Brings together scholars at the forefront of the emerging field of Korean environmental humanities to offer a multidisciplinary and transhistorical account of the Korean peninsula that centers the dynamic entanglements of human and nonhuman forces--flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

As humans, we have remarkable capacity to collaborate, building global infrastructure that connects financial, political and social systems. However, having scaled our infrastructure globally, planetary boundaries have been exceeded in multiple directions. To protect Earth, we now face a task to transition both philosophically and technologically to lifestyles that seek to restore critical functions of natural ecosystems so that we, and other species on the planet, can survive. This is a mammoth challenge that will require changes in the jobs of hundreds of millions of people and a shift in ethic and legislation toward ecological protection and restoration. This book explores the motivations of human society, our global infrastructure and legislation. It highlights various systems and challenges that are contributing to ecosystem and species loss, and documents some of the solutions being offered. The interconnectivity of all these things is evident given the overlapping themes throughout the various sections, and the book serves to collectively highlight some of these major challenges and the locked-in nature of our systems so that we can address them.
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• Acknowledgements History as a Starting Point: Preface to the English Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Deconstructing our Beliefs, (Re)-thinking Nature Chapter 2: Turning Africa into Parkland (1850-1960 Chapter 3: A Special Project for Africa (1960-1965) Chapter 4: The Expert and the Emperor (1965-1970) Chapter 5: Violence Below the Surface of Nature (1970-1978) Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Trap (1978-1996) Chapter 7: The Fiction of the Community Approach (1996-2009) Chapter 8: The Roots of Injustice (2009-2019) Conclusion
• Looking Ahead: Afterword Notes Index.
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The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization - all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity. But this Africa has never existed. The more we destroy nature here, the more we fantasize about it in Africa. Along with UNESCO, the WWF and other organizations, we convince ourselves that the African national parks are protecting the last vestiges of a world once untouched and wild. In reality, argues Guillaume Blanc, these organizations are responsible for naturalizing large tracts of the African continent, turning territories into parks and forcibly evicting thousands of people from the lands where they have lived for centuries. Making use of archives and oral histories, Blanc investigates this battle for a phantom Africa and the contradictory claims of nations who destroy nature at home while believing that they are protecting the natural world abroad. In so doing, they enact a new type of colonialism: green colonialism.
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• Introductio
• n1. The Works and Arts of Men: Irrigation and Environmen
• t2. Waters Dedicated to Some Purposes: New Infrastructur
• e3. For the Beautification of the City: Christian Urban Refor
• m4. Divine Mercy and Help: Natural Disaster and the Rise of Rogation Procession
• s5. Seeking the Dew of His Grace: Drought
• s6. From Purification to Protection: Plagu
• e7. That for Which the King of Kings Sent the Flood? Floods and LocustsConclusion.
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How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. When Christians conquered the city in 1238, it was already one of the richest agricultural areas in the Mediterranean thanks to a network of irrigation canals constructed under Muslim rule. Despite this constructed environment, drought, flooding, plagues, and other natural disasters continued to confront civic leaders in the later medieval period. Abigail Agresta argues that the city's Christian rulers took a technocratic approach to environmental challenges in the fourteenth century but by the mid-fifteenth century relied increasingly on religious ritual, reflecting a dramatic transformation in the city's religious identity. Using the records of Valencia's municipal council, she traces the council's efforts to expand the region's infrastructure in response to natural disasters, while simultaneously rendering the landscape within the city walls more visibly Christian. This having been achieved, Valencia's leaders began by the mid-fifteenth century to privilege rogations and other ritual responses over infrastructure projects. But these appeals to divine aid were less about desperation than confidence in the city's Christianity. Reversing traditional narratives of technological progress, The Keys to Bread and Wine shows how religious concerns shaped the governance of the environment, with far-reaching implications for the environmental and religious history of medieval Iberia.
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• Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1
• 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15
• 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33
• 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53
• 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70
• 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawai'i: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94
• 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112
• 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135
• 8. Telling One's Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149
• 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174
• 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187
• 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196
• 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229.
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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright.
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• Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1
• 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15
• 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33
• 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53
• 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70
• 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawai'i: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94
• 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112
• 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135
• 8. Telling One's Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149
• 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174
• 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187
• 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196
• 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229.
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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright.
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• Sensing the invisible: plant form and landscape transformation
• Interlude I. Plant morphologies leads to geomorphology
• From plant morphologies to landscape structures
• Fast and slow disasters: plant disease, forest fires, and climate change
• Interlude II. Pine cultivation and pine as an agent of landscape transformation
• Plant morphology, geomorphology and weather
• Biogeomorphological politics
• From landscape histories to climate models
• From climate change to biomass energy
• Interlude III. Airscapes
• Landscapes and energy politics
• Trees are shape shifters

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.
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本书系中国科学院青藏高原研究所2018年"第二次 青藏高原综合科学考察研究"之"藏东南人类活动 遗迹与生存环境调查"的总结性专著, 也是"人类活动历史与影响"专题的重要组成部分, 由参与科考专题科考的科研人员共同编著.全书共 6章, 包括藏东南人类活动遗迹, 藏东南门珞文化, 墨脫县农牧业等古今人类活动及经济模式的调查 及初步分析, 同时也包括了藏东南地区古人类活动的生存环境 调查, 以及该地区人类活动历史和生存环境关系的初步 分析结果.全书系统全面, 内容详实, 结构严谨又不失趣味性, 是我们了解藏东南地区地理, 历史和文化的重要资料, 将极大地推动青藏高原环境演变, 考古和文化事业的发展. 本书系中国科学院青藏高原研究所2018年"第二次 青藏高原综合科学考察研究"之"藏东南人类活动 遗迹与生存环境调查"的总结性专著, 也是"人类活动历史与影响"专题的重要组成部分, 由参与科考专题科考的科研人员共同编著.全书共 6章, 包括藏东南人类活动遗迹, 藏东南门珞文化, 墨脫县农牧业等古今人类活动及经济模式的调查 及初步分析, 同时也包括了藏东南地区古人类活动的生存环境 调查, 以及该地区人类活动历史和生存环境关系的初步 分析结果.全书系统全面, 内容详实, 结构严谨又不失趣味性, 是我们了解藏东南地区地理, 历史和文化的重要资料, 将极大地推动青藏高原环境演变, 考古和文化事业的发展.

• Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: What is Environmental History? 1 The Nature of Indian America Before Columbus Article: William M. Denevan, "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" (Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82(3) 1992: 369-385) Documents Richard Nelson, "The Watchful World" (from Richard Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (University of Chicago, 1983): 14 - 32. From Gilbert Wilson, Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987) Images of Florida Indians planting and making an offering of a stag to the sun (Images and text extracts from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, The Work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Vols. I and II). U.S. Geological Survey, map of Bitterroot Forest Reserve showing burned areas, 1890. 2 The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases and Extraordinary Animals Article: Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics" (excerpted from Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 - 1900 (Cambridge, 1987)) Documents Frank Givens, "Saynday and Smallpox: The White Man's Gift" From Thomas James, Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans John C. Ewers, "Horse Breeding" George Catlin, "Wild Horses at Play" 3 Colonial Natures: Marketing the Countryside Article: William Cronon, "A World of Fields and Fences" excerpt from Changes in the Land: Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Hill & Wang, 1983) Documents Robert Cushman, "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America" (1622) Lion Gardener, "Livestock and War in Colonial New England" Spanish priests Joseph Murguia and Thomas de la Pena explain Indian frustration with settler livestock in colonial California 4 Slavery and the South Through Environmental History Article: Mart Stewart, "Towards an Environmental History of the U.S. South" Documents newspaper advertisements for African slaves "from 'The Rice Coast' of West Africa, with knowledge of rice growing" Wilderness songs of enslaved people, William Francis Allen, Slave Songs of the United States (1867) Frederick Law Olmsted, "The Rice District" 5 Frontier Expansion and Waste Article: Alan Taylor, "Wasty Ways": Stories of American Settlement" (from Environmental History 3(3) July 1998: 291 - 309 (excerpted)). Documents James Fenimore Cooper on "The Wasty Ways of Pioneers" John J. Audubon and the Wonder of the Passenger Pigeon, 1830s Reporting on Passenger Pigeons (1850) Frederick J. Haskin, "One Bird Survives Millions" (1913) Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California Thomas Cole, Excerpt from "Essay on American Scenery" (1836) 6 Environmental Reform In City and Factory
• Article: Charles E. Rosenberg, From The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 ("Introduction, " and "The Epidemic, " from The Cholera Years (1962, rev. ed. 1987), 1-7, 13 - 39, excerpted) Documents "The Metropolitan Board of Health Suppresses Nuisances" (1866) "Underground Life-Health Officers Clean Out a Dive" (1873) San Francisco fire, 1850s Los Angeles crowd with water flowing into aqueduct Dynamited LA aqueduct, 1927. Alice Hamilton describes the industrial workplace of the early 1900s (1943) 7 Emerging Markets and Vanishing Animals
• Article: Dan Flores, "Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850" (from Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (University of Oklahoma, 2001)). Documents Billy Dixon, "Memories of buffalo hunting" (1870s) Harper's Weekly, "Curing Hides and Bones" (1874) Drake Hotel, Thanksgiving Menu, 1886 Baleen Demand and the Destruction of Whales (1907) Advertisement for Thomson's Glove-Fitting Corset (1874) "Destruction of Birds for Millinery Purposes, " (1886) "Cruelties of Fashion-Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" (1883) 8 The Many Uses of Progressive Conservation Article: Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest" (Environmental History 4(1) January 1999, 80 - 99). Documents Gifford Pinchot, "The Meaning of Conservation" "Mr. A. A. Anderson, Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer's Work" Women Activists Take on Bird Hat Fashion
• --Celia Thaxter, "Woman's Heartlessness" (1887) Charles Askins Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the South Ben Senowin testifies about being apprehended for game law violations 9 National Parks and the Trouble With Wilderness Article: William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" (from William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground (Norton, 1995).
• Documents John Muir on Saving Hetch Hetchy Peter Oscar Little Chief requests permission to hunt in Glacier Park National Parks Act, 1916-- Wilderness Act, 1964 10 Conservation and the New Deal Article: Neil Maher, "A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, " Environmental History, 7, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 435-461 (excerpt) Documents Ann Marie Low, Farmer's Daughter, Describes the New Deal
• Excerpt from Russell Moore, Roosevelt Riddles (1936) Photo Gallery--Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein Capture the Dust Bowl Eli Gorman and Deneh Bitsilly Remember New Deal Livestock Reduction in Navajo Country (1974) 11 Something In the Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, and Air Pollution
• Article: Robert Gottlieb, "Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots" (Environmental History 17(4) Winter, 1993: 1-19 (excerpted). Documents "Fallout: The Silent Killer" (1959) From Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Monsanto Corporation, excerpt from "The Desolate Year" (1962) The Hugh Moore Fund, "The Population Bomb" (1954) The Air Pollution Control Act (1955) The Clean Air Act, with amendments (2001) United Farm Workers, "Pesticides: The Poisons We Eat" (1969) 12 Environmental Protection and the Environmental Movement Article: J. Brooks Flippen, "Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism" (excerpted from Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (New Mexico, 2000): 1- 16, 46-49, 83-87, 98, 233-6, 243-4, 250, 254-5). Documents National Environmental Policy Act (1969) The Endangered Species Act (1973) From Daniel Yankelovich, "The New Naturalism" (1972) Gaylord Nelson Newsletter, "Earth Day" (1970) Black Environmentalists See "Another Side of Pollution" (1970) From Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1969) 13 Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Article: Eileen Maura McGurty, "From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement" (excerpted from Environmental History 2(3) July, 1997: 301-323. Documents Lois Gibbs on toxic waste and environmental justice(1992) From United Church of Christ, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987) The Letter that Shook a Movement (1993) Flint Water Advisory Task Force, "Final Report" (Excerpt) (2016) 14 Global Consumers and Global Environments Article: Matt Klingle, "Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History, " History and Theory, 42(4) Dec. 2003, 94 - 110 (excerpt) Documents A Botanist's Report on Bananas in Honduras (1931) The Impact of Coffee Farming on Indigenous Peoples (2005) State of Denial-California's Appetite for World Resources (2003) 15 Back-Lash Against the Environmental Movement Article: James Morton Turner, "The Specter of Environmentalism: Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right, " Journal of American History 96 (1) June, 2009: 123 - 149 Documents Map of U.S. Federal Lands (2020) Tim Peckinpaugh, "Special Report-The Specter of Environmentalism: The Threat of Environmental Groups" (1982)
• Joe Lane (National Cattlemen's Association) and Larry Echohawk (Shoshone and Bannock Tribes of Idaho), testify about the Sagebrush Rebellion (1980) Carl Pope, "The Politics of Plunder" S. Fred Singer, "The Costs of Environmental Overregulation" Mark Douglas Whitaker, "'Jobs vs. Environment' Myth" 16 Shifting Scale: Climate Change and Global Peril
• Article: Mike Hulme, "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (excerpt, from Osiris 2011 26:245-266) Documents Ben J. Wattenberg, "The Population Explosion is Over" (1996) "World Population is Expected to Nearly Stop Growing by the End of the Century" From United Nations, "World Population Prospects" (2019) Graph of Economic Growth and Air Emission Trends, 1970 - 2018 Graph of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, 1958-2020 Atmospheric CO2 concentrations, 800,000 BP-present The Acid Rain Experience, 1990-2002 Atmospheric CFC Concentration, 1977-2019 Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index, 2020 (NASA) Index .
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Explore how the peoples of America understood and changed their natural environments, remaking their politics, culture, and societies In this newly revised Second Edition of American Environmental History, celebrated environmental historian and author Louis S. Warren provides readers with insightful examination of how different American peoples created and reacted to environmental change and threats from the era before Columbus to the COVID-19 pandemic. You'll find concise editorial introductions to each chapter and interpretive interventions throughout this meticulous collection of essays and historical documents. This book covers topics as varied as Native American relations with nature, colonial invasions, American slavery, market expansion and species destruction, urbanization, Progressive and New Deal conservation, national parks, the environmental impact of consumer appetites, environmentalism and the backlash against it, environmental justice, and climate change. This new edition includes twice as many primary documents as the First Edition, along with findings from related fields such as Native American history, African American history, geography, and environmental justice. Ideal for students and researchers studying American environmental history and for those seeking historical perspectives on contemporary environmental challenges, this book will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in American history and the impact of American peoples on the environment and the world around them. Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is a two-time winner of the Caughey Western History Association Prize, a Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Albert Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Bancroft Prize in American History. .
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• Jan Eliasson: Foreword
• 1: Eva Loevbrand, Malin Mobjoerk, and Rickard Soeder: One Earth, Multiple Worlds: Securing Collective Survival on a Human-Dominated Planet Part I: Governing the Environment and Security Nexus: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead
• 2: Bjoern-Ola Linner and Henrik Selin: Geopolitics and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
• 3: Lucile Maertens and Judith Nora Hardt: Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Security Council
• 4: Marcus D. King, Caitlin Werrell, and Francesco Femia: The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: Closing the Climate Security Governance Gaps
• 5: Dan Smith: The Security Space in the Anthropocene Speech Part II: Reimagining Security in an Entangled World
• 6: Simon Dalby: To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels
• 7: Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel: From Human Environment to Post-Human Earth: Troubling the Nature/Culture Divide in the Stockholm Declaration
• 8: Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastian Granda Henao: Whose Security/Security For Whom? Rethinking the Anthropocene Through Ontological Security Afterword.
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In June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth's biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity's own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The 50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imagine constructive ways ahead.
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• Act like everything is local (because it is)
• Respect the thin blue line
• Live like crew, not a passenger
• Never underestimate the importance of bugs
• Go slow to go fast
• Stay grounded
• Whatever you do, make life better

When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the scale of the daunting task at hand-and yet, she believes we can set aside our differences and work together to tackle the most challenging planetary problems humanity has ever faced. She knows this, because she's seen it happen, on the International Space Station. Throughout her book, Stott imparts hard-won lessons in high-stakes problem solving, survival, and responding to crisis in space. On a space station, astronauts can't wait for someone else to handle a rescue; and when it comes to our earthbound problems, Stott learned that everyone should live like a crewmember, not like a passenger. In space, where everyone survives in a closed system, everything is local-and Stott discovered that in a profound way, the same is true back at home. Back to Earth distills these lessons and more into seven principles that can be practiced by each and every one of us to make much-needed change. In addition to sharing stories from her own spaceflight, Stott offers eye-opening insights from scientists and changemakers already sparking meaningful change in their communities and around the globe. She explores the complexities and splendor of the earth's biodiversity, and what it takes to preserve it, with both pioneering scientists on earth and engineers working to enable life in space. She meets with activists who use their time in space to advocate for clean water, and with executives who quit their corporate positions and use their global reach to become environmental leaders. Through her stirring call to action, Nicole Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect the Earth and one another-and to change our own lives in the process. And, while we're at it, we might just save humanity.
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• Foreword : medieval bestiaries and Anthropocenic hybrid creatures / Nicolas Nova
• Kingdom of minerals : hybrid rocks, mountains, craters, bones and other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of animals : hybrid eagles, goats, dolphins, crabs, turtles, caterpillars, cows, rats, & other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of plants : hybrid trees, bushes, flowers, seeds, and other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of miscellaneous : hybrid viruses, mushrooms, clouds, and other misc. specimens
• Observations : medieval bestiaries, negative commons, laboratory planet.... On bestiaries (re-calling creatures of the Anthropocene) / Pierre-Olivier Dittman
• On classification (what kind of novum organum would it be?) / Matthieu Duperrex
• On artificiality (the artificial plan) / Benjamin H. Bratton
• On recombinant commons (temporary manifesto for a laboratory of recombinant commons / Aliens in Green
• On negative commons (the shadow over Centreville [and many more territories]) / Alexandre Monnin
• On anthropogenic landscapes (unintentional design in the Anthropocene) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• On life with the non-living (the raw material of the human world) / Michel Lussault
• On planetary indigestion (step into our O.F.F.I.C.E.) / The Center for Genomic Gastronomy
• On ferality (the great "feral Roomba" dismissal) / Pauline Briand
• On temporalities (towards a gestalt switch) / Geoffrey C. Bowker

"An illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas... each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming "post-natural" era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us. A Bestiary of the Anthropocene seeks to capture this precise moment when the biosphere and technosphere merge and mesh into one new hybrid body. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is "natural" or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? What new specimens are currently populating our planet at the beginning of the 21st century?" -- Page 4 of cover

• Acknowledgments A Brief Word on Dates and Dating Introduction
• 1: Living in Deep Time: the Environmental Context of Northern North America
• 2: The Turtle Island System: Indigenous Means of Survival
• 3: "Closing up the Seams of Pangaea": Colonization and Its Consequences
• 4: Agriculture and Environmental Change in the Wendat Confederacy, Canada, and Acadia
• 5: Markets, Science, and the Canadian Environment: Knowing and Shaping Nature, 1660-1850
• 6: The Environment of Industry
• 7: The Conservation Era
• 8: High Modernism and the Experience of Nature in Twentieth-Century Canada
• 9: Living Through Chemistry: Toxins, Bodies, and Ecologies
• 10: Survival: the Sixties and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
• 11: Sustainable Development? Environmentalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
• 12: How Much Longer We Can Stand: Climate Change and the Environment in 21st Century Canada Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index.
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The book is a history of how people in the territory that is now Canada have interacted with all that is non-human since the last ice age. It takes as its jumping off point the idea that the primary human interest in nature is getting the resources needed to survive: in other words, food and shelter. So concentrating on the ways in which societies in what we now call Canada have shaped access to nature in order to achieve subsistence (or survival), and the things that flow from that allows us to understand much of the human-nature relationship in this place over time. The book starts with the retreat of the glaciers and the assembling of the natural environment of Canada. It then looks at the means of survival and the different impacts on the land of Indigenous people and of pre-industrial European colonizing societies. Industrial capitalism in the later nineteenth century encouraged a new ordering and control of nature, while science both facilitated and challenged this and its effects. The latter half of the book examines the results: a massive re-engineering of nature, the development of new chemicals and materials and their presence in the environment as waste and pollution, the conservation, preservation and environmental movements, and the attempts, up to our present-day and including the crisis of climate change, to reconcile economic development with environmental protection. The book is written in a lively style that will be accessible to undergraduate students. It features a further reading section that both students and scholars new to the field will find useful and over 65 maps and illustrations. It is the first such book to propose an overall framework for understanding Canadian environmental history.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: senses of place in the face of global challenges
• Part I. Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts: 1. Coral reef collapse and sense of place in the great barrier reef, Australia
• 2. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: case studies from the USA
• 3. The place-subjectivity continuum after a disaster: enquiring into the production of sense of place as an assemblage
• 4. Changing sense of place and local responses to Bengaluru's disappearing lakes
• 5. Place-making for regional conservation: negotiating narratives of stability and change
• Part II. Migration, Mobility and Belonging: 6. Exploring senses of place through narratives of tourism growth and place change: the case of the faroe islands
• 7. No one is a prophet at home: mobility and senses of place in West Africa
• 8. Place detachment and the psychology of nonbelonging: lessons from diepsloot informal settlement
• 9. Sense of place in urban China: multiple determinants of rural-urban migrants' belongingness to the host city
• Part III. Renewable Energy Transitions: 10. Farming landscapes, energy landscapes or both? using social representations theory to understand the impact of energy transitions on rural senses of place
• 11. Auto-photography, senses of place and public support for marine renewable energy
• 12. A life course approach to the pluralisation of sense of place: understanding the social acceptance of low-carbon energy developments
• Part IV. Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims: 13. Ethnocentric bias in perceptions of place: the role of essentialism and the perceived continuity of places
• 14. Sense of place between spatial justice and urban violence in Palestine
• 15. The political ecology of place meaning: identity, political self-determination and illicit resource use in the manas tiger reserve, India
• Part V. Urban Change: 16. Uncovering competing senses of place in a context of rapid urban change
• 17. Gentrification and the creative destruction of sense of place: a psychosocial exploration of urban transformations in Barcelona
• 18. Looking at the urban invisibles: appropriation of space and senses of place by people living in the streets
• Part VI. Technological and Legal Transformations: 19. Electronically mediated sense of place
• 20. A dynamic view of local knowledge and epistemic bonds to place: implications for senses of place and the governance of biodiversity conservation
• 21. Social media and experiences of nature: towards a plurality of senses of place
• Part VII. Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place: 22. Local sense(s) of place in a global world: towards a normative framework for spatial planners
• 23. Urban experimentation and the role of senses of place: an illustrative case from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 24. Domestic matters: IKEA catalogues, the good home and the changing aspirations of urban Chinese
• Part VIII. Conclusion. 25. Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges: A Senses of Place Perspective
• Appendix 1. List of catalogues referred to in chapter 24
• Index.
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Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: senses of place in the face of global challenges
• Part I. Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts: 1. Coral reef collapse and sense of place in the great barrier reef, Australia
• 2. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: case studies from the USA
• 3. The place-subjectivity continuum after a disaster: enquiring into the production of sense of place as an assemblage
• 4. Changing sense of place and local responses to Bengaluru's disappearing lakes
• 5. Place-making for regional conservation: negotiating narratives of stability and change
• Part II. Migration, Mobility and Belonging: 6. Exploring senses of place through narratives of tourism growth and place change: the case of the faroe islands
• 7. No one is a prophet at home: mobility and senses of place in West Africa
• 8. Place detachment and the psychology of nonbelonging: lessons from diepsloot informal settlement
• 9. Sense of place in urban China: multiple determinants of rural-urban migrants' belongingness to the host city
• Part III. Renewable Energy Transitions: 10. Farming landscapes, energy landscapes or both? using social representations theory to understand the impact of energy transitions on rural senses of place
• 11. Auto-photography, senses of place and public support for marine renewable energy
• 12. A life course approach to the pluralisation of sense of place: understanding the social acceptance of low-carbon energy developments
• Part IV. Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims: 13. Ethnocentric bias in perceptions of place: the role of essentialism and the perceived continuity of places
• 14. Sense of place between spatial justice and urban violence in Palestine
• 15. The political ecology of place meaning: identity, political self-determination and illicit resource use in the manas tiger reserve, India
• Part V. Urban Change: 16. Uncovering competing senses of place in a context of rapid urban change
• 17. Gentrification and the creative destruction of sense of place: a psychosocial exploration of urban transformations in Barcelona
• 18. Looking at the urban invisibles: appropriation of space and senses of place by people living in the streets
• Part VI. Technological and Legal Transformations: 19. Electronically mediated sense of place
• 20. A dynamic view of local knowledge and epistemic bonds to place: implications for senses of place and the governance of biodiversity conservation
• 21. Social media and experiences of nature: towards a plurality of senses of place
• Part VII. Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place: 22. Local sense(s) of place in a global world: towards a normative framework for spatial planners
• 23. Urban experimentation and the role of senses of place: an illustrative case from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 24. Domestic matters: IKEA catalogues, the good home and the changing aspirations of urban Chinese
• Part VIII. Conclusion. 25. Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges: A Senses of Place Perspective
• Appendix 1. List of catalogues referred to in chapter 24
• Index.
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Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Environmental complexity: an ecosemiotic vision
• 3. Environmental uncertainty: contrasting strategies and species adaptation
• 4. Information theory and meaning
• 5. The role of ecology in the ecosemiotic arena
• 6. Landscape dimension: some relevant characteristics of landscape
• 7. Resources: a general theory
• 8. An ecosemiotic approach to landscape description and interpretation: from zoosemiotics to an eco-field model
• 9. Fundamentals of ecoacoustics: a new quantitative contribution to the ecosemiotic narrative
• 10. Cultural landscapes.
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The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Environmental complexity: an ecosemiotic vision
• 3. Environmental uncertainty: contrasting strategies and species adaptation
• 4. Information theory and meaning
• 5. The role of ecology in the ecosemiotic arena
• 6. Landscape dimension: some relevant characteristics of landscape
• 7. Resources: a general theory
• 8. An ecosemiotic approach to landscape description and interpretation: from zoosemiotics to an eco-field model
• 9. Fundamentals of ecoacoustics: a new quantitative contribution to the ecosemiotic narrative
• 10. Cultural landscapes.
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The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive.
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• Birth of a name
• Birth of a place
• Peopling Puget Sound
• Defending Puget Sound
• The maritime highway
• Seaweed in the sound
• The silver wave
• Old fish and new laws
• The table is set
• Homebodies.

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book.
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• Birth of a name
• Birth of a place
• Peopling Puget Sound
• Defending Puget Sound
• The maritime highway
• Seaweed in the sound
• The silver wave
• Old fish and new laws
• The table is set
• Homebodies

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book.
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It's about you and me - and our governments. As Covid-19 has wreaked havoc across the world, the time for this idea has come: we need to re-set our relationship with nature. The pandemic has put the spotlight on how human expansion on earth has led to an increase in zoonotic viruses jumping species, and calls on us to re-examine our rampant commercialisation of nature and animals in farming, wildlife management and in our diets. At the heart of the problem is "anthropocentrism": our egotistical view that ecosystems, plants trees and other animals exist for the benefit of humans, and humans alone. In his trademark accessible and anecdotal style, Cruise explores the ethical and practical issues, the personal and political choices - and solutions - to the greatest problem facing all species on earth

A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But this idea that we have only recently begun to manipulate the natural world is false. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age. It's just that we're getting better at it - a lot better. Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution through hunting, domesticating, polluting, hybridizing, conserving and genetically modifying life on Earth. Looking ahead to the future, she casts aside the scaremongering myths on the dangers of interference, and outlines the true risks and incredible opportunities that new biotechnologies will offer us in the years ahead. Not only do they present us with the chance to improve our own lives, but they increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.
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• Blindsided by life
• Urban Galapagos
• The inadvertent ark
• The last escape
• The human niche
• The intelligence of crows
• Embracing diversity to balance risk
• The law of inseparability
• Humpty Dumpty and the robotic sex bees
• Living with evolution
• Not the end of nature
• Conclusion: No longer among the living

"Biologist Rob Dunn grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But as Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions. The rules of life, Dunn explains, are all-encompassing, governing where species are likely to abound, the inevitable arms race between humans and our predators, and even our own ignorance about nature. Collectively, these rules shed light on the future of life and our destiny, revealing where our visions for cities, roads, schools, and society at large run afoul of nature's inescapable dictates. The future we have been planning is one in which we try to hold back life. As Dunn argues, we cannot: Surviving or reversing climate change and other ecological catastrophes isn't just a question of reducing our carbon footprint with clean technologies or protecting ecosystems. It's not about "fixes." It's about working with nature, and so learning to live by the rules that entails. Drawing on topics as diverse as how microbes acquired during birth affect our health and what species might inhabit the crust of the Earth, Dunn reveals the surprising complexities of the natural world and the interconnectedness of life itself. Along the way, he offers plenty of simple lessons in how we can, individually and collectively, through environmental policy, make the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure our own species' survival. At once hopeful and practical, A Natural History of the Future offers a vision of our future in which humans and the natural world coexist symbiotically"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography
• Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn'
• Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature
• Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation - A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994
• Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of 'Living Things' Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?
• References Index.
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Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen's finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
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• Paysages abîmés ? Friches industrielles, ruines, héritage
• De la "city of mud" à London orbital : analyse des stratégies visuelles autour des paysages photographiques londoniens / Isabelle Le Pape
• Deindustrialised Urban Landscapes in the North of England : Exploring and Photographing Post-Industrial Manchester / Aurore Caignet
• From toxic to futuristic : miners, their landscape and the manipulation of (British) heritage / Silvia Pireddu
• Paysages toxiques
• Les paysages de l'extraction en Amérique du Sud : entre esthétisme et sidération / Marie Forget
• La patrimonialisation des sites nucléaires : un non-sens ? Le regard des artistes / Odile De Bruyn
• Paysages déshumanisants : de la négation de l'altérité à la violence systémique
• "Shattered Peoples and Scarred Places" : The Dehumanizing Impact of Colonization on Australia's landscapes / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
• The Dachau Plantation and Other Paradoxical Landscapes of the Holocaust / Eileen Groth Lyon
• Les paysages inhumains du déni de citoyenneté : les Centres de Rétention administrative / Rémi Baudouï et Manuel Kabouche
• Des paysages entre altération et altérité : Vertigo Sea et Purple de John Akomfrah / Valérie Morisson
• Paysages mémoires de conflits
• Passés sous silence - les paysages éprouvés d'Ernest Hemingway dans In Our Time / Nathalie Cochoy
• Paysages meurtris du 11 septembre 2001 dans la littérature américaine / Aliette Ventéjoux
• Traces, absences
• Unearth : Regenerating Hidden Histories and Revealing Instabilities / Fedra Dekeyser
• Paysages avec figures absentes / Pierre Wat.

"Paysages inhumains explore un paradoxe : les paysages toujours façonnés par l'homme peuvent cependant devenir inhumains, à force de dégradation, de pollution, de répression, de destruction. De la représentation de friches industrielles à celle de conflits armés en passant par des paysages toxiques mais aussi des forêts en apparence "vierges" qui repoussent sur des charniers, il existe un fil rouge, qui est celui de la présence puis de l'effacement, de l'absence de l'humain dans des paysages devenus inhospitaliers. Des historiens, historiens de l'art, géographes, urbanistes, chercheurs en littérature, mais aussi des photographes et des artistes ont contribué à ce volume pluridisciplinaire, car la représentation de tels paysages est un enjeu écologique, esthétique et politique. Nous devons prendre conscience de ces paysages devenus inhumains pour les limiter, ou les réparer et si possible avec eux nous ré-accorder."--Page 4 of cover.

"This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources."--Page 4 of cover

• List of Figures List of Sidebars Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception The Basis of Life's Power Power and Bodies Power and Behaviors Proto-Human Powers
• 2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs Hands and Stone The Fire Ape Skins From Grunts to Sentences Gender Power The Power of Art
• 3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies Numbers on Money Pathologies of Power
• 4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels It's All Energy The Coal Train Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class Oil-Age Wars and Weapons Electrifying! The Human Superorganism
• 5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into Climate Chaos and Its Remedies Disappearance of Wild Nature Resource Depletion Soaring Economic Inequality Pollution Overpopulation and Overconsumption Global Debt Bubble Weapons of Mass Destruction
• 6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern World Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
• 7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits All Against All Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint The Fate of the Superorganism Questioning Technology Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff Lessening Inequality Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady Fighting Power with Power Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
• Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers.
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Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. - Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions - and their answers - will determine our fate.
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• Power in nature : from mitochondria to emotion and deception: The basis of life's power ; Power and bodies ; Power and behaviors ; Proto-human powers
• Power in the pleistocene : on spears, fires, furs, words, and flutes - and why men are such power-hogs: Hands and stone ; The fire ape ; Skins ; From grunts to sentences ; Gender power ; The power of art
• Power in the holocene : the rise of social inequality: Gerdening, big men, and chiefs : power from food production ; Plow and plunder : kings and the first states ; Herding cattle, flogging slaves : power from domestication ; Stories of our ancestors : religion and power ; Tools for wording : communication technologies ; Numbers on money ; Pathologies of power
• Power in the anthropocene : the wonderful world of fossil fuels: It's all energy ; The coal train ; Oil, cars, airplanes, and the new middle class ; Oil-age wars and weapons ; Electrifying! ; The human superorganism
• Overpowered : the fine mess we've gotten ourselves into: Climate chaos and its remedies ; Disappearance of wild nature ; Resource depletion ; Soaring economic inequality ; Pollution ; Overpopulation and overconsumption ; Global debt bubble ; Weapons of mass destruction
• Optimum power : sustaining our power over time: Involuntary power limits : death, extinction, collapse ; Self-limitation in natural and human-engineered systems ; Taboos, souls, and enlightenment ; Taxes, regulations, activism, and rationing : power restraint in the modern world ; Games, disarmament, and degrowth ; Denial, optimism bias, and irrational exuberance
• The future of power : learning to live happily within limits: All against all ; Trade-offs along the path of self-restraint ; The fate of the superorganism ; Questioning technology ; Learning to live with less energy and stuff ; Lessening inequality ; Population : lowering it and keeping it steady ; Fighting power with power ; Long-term power through beauty, spirituality, and happiness

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. - Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions - and their answers - will determine our fate.
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• Introduction: Strange victory
• Crime scene. Dark waters ; The wasting ; Here come the warm jets
• Season of disbelief. Frankenstein in the lower ninth ; Chickens without their heads cut off ; Aspen saves the world
• As gods. Pigeon apocalypse. Bayou bonjour: Oil and water is the fabric of your town; Barataria; The forest machine ; The immortal jellyfish ; Green rabbit

The old distinctions - between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact - have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories and reporting have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?
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• Part I. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality: 1. The Ultrasocial Origin of our Existential Crisis
• 2. The Evolution of Ultrasociality in Humans and Social Insects
• 3. Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage and the Evolution of Human Nature
• 4. The Agricultural Transition and how it Changed our Species
• Part II. The Rise and Consolidation of State/Market Societies: 5. The Rise of State Societies
• 6. The Modern State/Market Superorganism
• 7. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of the Superorganism
• Part III. Back to the Future: 8. Taming the Market: A Minimal Bioeconomic Program
• 9. Evolving a Sustainable and Equitable Future: What can we learn from Non-Market Cultures?
• 10. Reclaiming Human Nature: The Future will be Better (Eventually)
• Index.
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production. Recognizing this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the well-being of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.
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• Part I. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality: 1. The Ultrasocial Origin of our Existential Crisis
• 2. The Evolution of Ultrasociality in Humans and Social Insects
• 3. Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage and the Evolution of Human Nature
• 4. The Agricultural Transition and how it Changed our Species
• Part II. The Rise and Consolidation of State/Market Societies: 5. The Rise of State Societies
• 6. The Modern State/Market Superorganism
• 7. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of the Superorganism
• Part III. Back to the Future: 8. Taming the Market: A Minimal Bioeconomic Program
• 9. Evolving a Sustainable and Equitable Future: What can we learn from Non-Market Cultures?
• 10. Reclaiming Human Nature: The Future will be Better (Eventually)
• Index.
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production. Recognizing this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the well-being of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.
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• Down the river
• Into the wild
• Up in the air

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"-- Provided by publisher
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. -- adapted from jacket

• Weaving : postcolonial and multispecies politics of plants
• Leaking : containment and recalcitrance of swamps
• Infecting : irrigation, mosquitoes, and malaria in wartime
• Crossing : wildlife in agriculture
• Enclosing : pelicans, protected areas, and private property
• Migrating : wetlands, transcontinental bird movements, and global environmental crisis
• Rippling : capitalism, seals, and baselines

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O'Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin-a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas-as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O'Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region's history within global environmental humanities conversations, O'Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.
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