Environmental Studies

Rhymes with the Past (2012) (Christopher T. Fisher and Gary M. Feinman)

by Gary Feinman

Landscapes over Time: Resilience, Degradation, and Contemporary Lessons (2005)

by Gary Feinman

Christopher T. Fisher and Gary M. Feinman, 2005)

Environmental and economic tools to support sustainable golf tourism: The Algarve experience, Portugal

by Antónia Correia

The "cultural filter," human transport of mussel shell, and the applied potential of zooarchaeological data

by Steve Wolverton

Peacock, Randklev, Wolverton, Palmer, Zaleski forthcoming in Ecological Applications

Large assemblages of animal bones and/or shells from archaeological sites can provide data valuable for modern... more Large assemblages of animal bones and/or shells from archaeological sites can provide data valuable for modern conservation efforts, e.g., by providing accurate historical baselines for species reintroductions or habitat restoration. Such data are underused by natural scientists, partly due to assumptions that archaeological materials are too biased by prehistoric human actions (the so-called "cultural filter") to accurately reflect past biotic communities. In order to address many paleobiological, archaeological, or applied research questions, data on past species, communities, and populations must first be demonstrated to be representative at the appropriate level. We discuss different ways in which one kind of cultural bias, human transport of specimens, can be tested at different scales, using freshwater mussel shells from prehistoric sites in the Tombigbee River basin of Mississippi and Alabama to show how representativeness of samples can be assessed.


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Occupazione, disoccupazione e ambiente

by marcucci edoardo

Bearing witness in 40 years of Greenpeace chronicles

by David Robie

Robie, David (2012). Bearing witness in 40 years of Greenpeace chronicles [Review]. Pacific Journalism Review, 18(1): 232-237. Review of: Rainbow Warrior Mon Amour: Trente ans de photos aux côtés de Greenpeace, by Pierre Gleizes. Paris: Glenart, 2011, 379 pp. ISBN 978-2723484558
Warriors of the Rainbow: A chronicle of the Greenpeace movement from 1971 to 1979, by Robert Hunter [40th anniversary edition]. Perth: Greenpeace and Freemantle Press, 2011, 451pp. ISBN 978-1921888809.

MY DOG-EARED yellow-covered copy of the late Robert Hunter’s Warriors of the Rainbow still has pride of place among my... more MY DOG-EARED yellow-covered copy of the late Robert Hunter’s Warriors of the Rainbow still has pride of place among my bookshelves. It was inspirational in many respects before I embarked on Rainbow Warrior I’s journey to the Marshall Islands in May 1985 which led to the bombing in Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour two months later and my own book Eyes of Fire about that ill-fated humanitarian voyage, so very different from most Greenpeace campaigns.One of the original Greenpeace environmental crusaders, journalist Hunter provided a powerful and insightful tale of the Canadian birth and early years of the global movement ‘from Amchitka to Moruroa’. Even before the corporate trend to mission statements, Greenpeace had one provided by the Cree Indians and popularised by Hunter.

Intersections of Nature, Science, and Religion: An Introduction

by Adrian Ivakhiv

Co-authored with Catherine Tucker

A Global Perspective on the Environmental Impact of Golf

by John Nauright

Co-authored with Kit Wheeler, in Sport in Society (2006)

The sport of golf has grown tremendously in the past three decades. It is now the leading sport in the world in terms... more The sport of golf has grown tremendously in the past three decades. It is now the leading sport in the world in terms of total economic expenditure, yet surprising little on golf has
appeared in the academic sports studies literature. In particular, the impact of golf on the environment has been virtually absent from discussion. Golf takes place in the outdoors, yet golf course development and maintenance has involved many aspects that are deleterious to the environment. This article charts the impact of golf on the environment from an international perspective, particularly noting emerging differences in first and developing world countries.

A GIS Comparative Analysis of Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and the Contemporary Physical Landscape in the Jazira Region of Syria

by Tony Mathys

Most of the datasets presented in this thesis are available for free in ArcGIS shapefile format on the ShareGeo Open data repository at http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/.

These datasets are available for everyone to use as it is important to encourage data sharing in support of research activities.

There are also some CORONA satellite images available on ShareGeo for the Syrian Jazira region. The plan is to eventually provide complete CORONA coverage for this region, though geo-referencing will not be precise as it's intended to be more for user orientation.

Acknowledgement should go to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which makes CORONA imagery available via its EarthExplorer online data service at http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/
Many CORONA images are available to download for free from this service, though require processing and geo-referencing for use in a GIS or a software package for processing remotely sensed imagery.

Relevant to this, and the thesis, is the following paper presented which first introduced how CORONA satellite imagery could be applied to archaeological work in the Near East. Martin Fowler also wrote about the potential of CORONA in the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) news.

Mathys, Tony. “The Use of Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs in a GIS (IDRISI) to Map Archaeological Sites and the Surrounding Landscape in the Northeastern Region of the Syrian Jazirah. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute, NASA and St. Cloud State University Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology Conference. St. Cloud, Minnesota, May 29-31, 1997.

Unfortunately, papers presented at this conference were not published.

My gratitude and thanks to Dr Sarah Parcak for citing this unpublished conference paper in her book (Satellite Remote Sensing in Archaeology), and to Dr Aled Rowlands and Dr Apostolos Sarris for citing it in their Journal of Archaeological Science article 34 (2007).

A Cloud-based Virtual Observatory for Environmental Science

by Yehia El-khatib

Why Should We Care About Birds? By Carol P. Christ

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

I believe that we should we care about birds because it is right to do so.  If we do not, we will contribute to... more I believe that we should we care about birds because it is right to do so.  If we do not, we will contribute to extinction of species, and we will leave a diminished world to those who come after us. We must not give up hope that we can save the world for birds, for other wildlife, and for our children’s children.

On February 2, 2012, the International Day for Wetlands, the Greek government signed into law a Presidential Directive mandating protection of the small wetlands of the Greek islands.  There is no assurance that this law will be enforced.  There are still no measures in effect to protect most of the larger wetlands in Greece, even though this is required by the European law Natura 2000, which requires all of the countries in the European Union to protect bird and wildlife habitats.

CORRELACIONES ENTRE LA EXPANSIÓN DEL CULTIVO DE SOJA Y LAS CONDICIONES SOCIOAMBIENTALES EN EL CHACO SECO ARGENTINO EN LA …

by julieta krapovickas

Deforestación, expansión agropecuaria y dinámica demográfica en el Chaco Seco Argentino durante la década de los noventa

by julieta krapovickas

Cambio socio-ambiental en el chaco argentino y su relación con la expansión de soja en la década de 1990

by julieta krapovickas

La expansión de la soja y el cambio socio ambiental en el Chaco Argentino en la década de 1990

by julieta krapovickas

RE-IMAGINING THE NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT

by Nosheen Ali

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

Международные аспекты экологической политики Индии и Китая [International aspects of India’s and China’s environmental policies]

by Ivan Sablin

published in Век глобализации, no. 2 (8), 2011, pp. 126–139.

Статья посвящена международным аспектам экополитической проблематики в Китае и Индии. Рассматриваются вопросы влияния... more Статья посвящена международным аспектам экополитической проблематики в Китае и Индии. Рассматриваются вопросы влияния процессов глобализации на состояние окружающей среды и экологическую политику в указанных странах. Упоминается гипотеза «убежища для загрязнителей». Также уделяется внимание участию двух стран в международном сотрудничестве по вопросам решения глобальных проблем современности. В статье исследуются китайские и индийские философские концепции и дается оценка возможности принятия этими странами на себя глобальной экологической ответственности.

Отражение экологической политики Индии и Китая в научном и общественно-политическом дискурсе [Reflexions of Indian and Chinese environmental policies in scientific and socio-political discourse]

by Ivan Sablin

published in Terra Humana: Общество, Среда, Развитие, no. 3, 2011, pp. 204–208.

Перед Китаем и Индией сегодня стоит сложная задача решения экологических проблем. Усилия правительств в данном... more Перед Китаем и Индией сегодня стоит сложная задача решения экологических проблем. Усилия правительств в данном направлении рассматриваются представителями научных и общественно-политических кругов двух стран как неэффективные, хотя в целом КНР добилась некоторых успехов. В научной литературе и в прессе предлагается целый ряд рекомендаций по совершенствованию экологической политики двух стран. Именно им и посвящена настоящая статья.

Китай-Индия: Экологический срез [China and India: Their role in solving world ecological problems]

by Ivan Sablin

published in Азия и Африка сегодня, no. 11, 2011, pp. 14–19.

Еще два десятилетия назад основным источником глобального экологического кризиса виделся способ производства и... more Еще два десятилетия назад основным источником глобального экологического кризиса виделся способ производства и потребления в развитых странах. Сегодня в ключевых экологических акторов превращаются быстрорастущие (формирующиеся рыночные) страны. Именно от их усилий по решению глобальных и региональных экологических проблем (разумеется, при содействии развитых государств) будет зависеть жизнь всего человечества. Китай и Индия среди стран бывшего "третьего мира" пользуются большим политическим влиянием, что вкупе со значительными масштабами воздействия экономик этих стран на окружающую среду позволяет говорить о них как об экологических сверхдержавах. Если уровень потребления в Индии и Китае приблизится к уровню потребления в развитых странах, то мир ожидает экологическая катастрофа. В то же время возможность сразу перейти к устойчивой модели развития, минуя негативные экологические последствия промышленного развития, представляется малореальной. Вопрос о том, будет ли найден компромисс между стремлением к экономическому росту и ограниченными природными ресурсами, остается открытым. От того, какой путь развития изберут эти страны в ближайшие годы, во многом будет зависеть развитие всего мира.