A new crowdfunding effort has been launched on Kickstarter with the purpose of LiDAR scanning the entire planet, starting with vulnerable areas, such as the Amazon. The Earth Archive project says they…
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Scott Madry’s new book on how to learn and use the QGIS Open Source GIS has been published recently by Locale Press: locatepress.com/books Introduction to QGIS comes with a download of sample…
Abstract This introduction to a special issue of Climatic Change argues that it is timely and welcome to intensify historical research into climate change and climate as factors of history. This is…
Political Ecology – Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life Critiques the dominant geopolitics of “sustainable development” Explores how the development of eco-territorial conflicts has affected environmental thinking Introduces new concepts for the development…
This interview was conducted as a part of the podcast ‘Mergers & Acquisitions’ by the Society of Economic Anthropology, and can be watched in full below:
IHOPE Steering Committee member Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, of the History Department at Stockholm University and BOLIN Climate Centre affiliate has recently published a paper on the historical impact of climate variability on…
Call for applications, Ph.D. course: ‘The Political Ecology of Pandemics’ Date: 9 – 11 August, 2021 Venue: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway Organised by: Centre for Development and the Environment, The Norwegian Political Ecology…
What are the causal links between changes in climate and in human societies? In a new paper in WIREs Climate Change, Charpentier Ljungqvist et al discuss human history and past climate variability…
Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Open Access) https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD/9781108498692AR.pdf/Social_Sustainability__Past_and_Future.pdf?event-type=FTLA In his book, Sander van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socioeconomic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of…
“A year ago, ‘Widening Horizons’ was decided on as the motto of the 27th EAA Annual Meeting, as it combined the ‘sense of place’ of Kiel and its position in Europe, with…