Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More than human encounters is a new book published by the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series. "Storied places and companions infuse this deeply moving book of earthly encounters. This is not travel writing in any conventional sense, but home writing attuned to...
Philosophy Activism Nature 12 has just been released, with lots of interesting articles, poetry, photo-essays and much much more; focused around the theme of 'place' and talking to the Anthropocene, cross-species communication and empathy, PAN12 demonstrates how emotional geographies complement EH practices. Available free online, under 'current issue' here: http://panjournal.net PAN12 offers academic articles by...
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities is a new edited collection published by Routledge (editors Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall and Stephanie LeMenager) Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students,...
Series editors: Gillian Overing, Wake Forest University; Heide Estes, University of Cambridge and Monmouth University; Philip Slavin, University of Kent; Steven Mentz, St. John's University This series in environmental humanities, published by Amsterdam University Press, offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from...
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON… LIBBY ROBIN NORWEGIANS WORK ONE HUNDRED days less per year than Australians. The whole country savours its precious few months of summer, with long days, long holidays and widespread retreat from city apartments to cabins in the mountains. Norwegians open their...
The World Forest History series, published by the ANU Press, is happy to announce the publication of Brett Bennett's and Fred Kruger's new book, Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa: History, Science and Policy. The book is available free online and through a print-on-demand...
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is now available on the Rowman & Littlefield website. Please pass along the info to your networks and libraries for pre-order. The book is scheduled for release on December 17, 2015. It is already listed on Amazon and...
Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race MIT Press, 2015 How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in...
New Journal International Review of Environmental History free online ANU ePress International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focussed on or developed from the southern hemisphere and...
Susanna Lidström The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall...