The full programme for our 2024 Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture Series is now published! Sign up to attend the lectures either in person or on Zoom #envhum tinyurl.com/4a893hfv

We are so excited to announce that the RCC blog—𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴—is back with an inaugural entry on Russian environmental politics! seeingthewoods.org/2024/04/03/the… #envhist #envhum #RCCPublications #blog #environmentalpolicies

New Arcadia article by Jan Schweizer, ETH Zürich, on the KEZO waste plant near Zurich, Switzerland: "Limits of the Landscape: A Waste Incinerator for Zurich’s Countryside." Read it on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhum #envhist ETH Zurich environmentandsociety.org/node/9830

The thought-provoking documentary 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘫𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024), directed by former Rachel Carson Center Fellow Siddhartha Krishnan, is now available on the Portal: environmentandsociety.org/mml/decent-wor… #Himalayas #porters #science #envhum #envhist ATREE

CFP! The strange history of the ordinary   Can we find the enduring in the everyday? The histories we read are still mainly about great events, great changes, great men and women doing great things. What about us? 

The 2024 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 spring volume is now complete! Diane Smith writes about a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in the Sierra Nevada. Read it here: environmentandsociety.org/node/9838 #fire #forests #envhum #envhist

New book excerpt! Read from Rick Van Noy's 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳: 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 on the Environment & Society Portal. Courtesy of Cornell University Press. #envhum #envhist environmentandsociety.org/mml/borne-rive…

🥳Today is #PublicationDay! 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 is back with its fifth installment. Join us as we journey from the cold depths of a northern German lake to the warm dunes of southern Portugal.

We just added an episode of Archive Ecologies to our multimedia library, a podcast that "investigates how fires, floods, mold blooms, and other ecological events are affecting cultural collections and the artifacts and memories they preserve." environmentandsociety.org/mml/episode-1-… #envhum

The first article of the 2024 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 summer volume has arrived! bookful blockhead writes about "Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects." environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/climat… #climatechange #ecoanxiety #literature #envhist

New book excerpt! Read the introduction to Hsuan L. Hsu's 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024), courtesy of Bloomsbury Academic. environmentandsociety.org/mml/air-condit… #envhist #histtech #objectlessons

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the 1972 𝘔𝘺𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘢 oil spill in the Singapore Strait, its environmental impact, and subsequent policy changes. By Miklas Sauermann. #envhist #envhum environmentandsociety.org/node/9840

Today, we would like to introduce one of our European Research Council (ERC)-funded projects, "Fragments of the #Forest: Hot Zones, #Disease Ecologies, and the Changing Landscape of Environment and Health in #WestAfrica." It deals with a multi-perspective view of pandemic threats. (1/?)

The newest 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 entry looks at environmental conservation practices of the Bishnoi religious community in the Thar Desert, India—written by Amir Sohel and Farhat Naz. Read it here: environmentandsociety.org/node/9846 School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur #envhum #envhist #activism #trees

Former RCC fellow José Augusto Pádua's latest open-access publication is now also available on our Environment+Society portal. Have a look here: environmentandsociety.org/mml/land-use-h… #bookprofile #envhum #portal #new

In this week’s 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article, Pankhuree Dube looks at the Indian government’s support for hybrid rice in a 1950s refugee-resettlement scheme, which led to deforestation and the disruption of Indigenous foodways: environmentandsociety.org/node/9861 #envhist #millets #food Middle Tennessee State University