A space for discussion, collaboration, and resource sharing for studies of the ecological and environmental humanities.
Raphael Grazziano deposited Urban science between transparent management and corporate appropriation: A study concerning systems of urban assessment in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
Urban science is the planning branch that uses large scale data to establish new ways to govern cities, being systems of urban assessment an example of its contemporary manifestation. What Works Cities (WWC) from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Cities and Communities (LEED© CC) from US Green Building…[Read more]
Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Analisis Preliminar de la climatología de la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
La cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan está localizada entre tres volcanes en un valle agrícola importante. A más de 2000 metros de altura, la cuenca está localizada en la región del Alto Balsas y es uno de los primerios tributarios que alimentan el río Balsas. En la región hay una compleja dinámica de valle-montaña que se ha transformado por la diversid…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La Peste Escarlata’ y la epidemiología evolutiva in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago
El artículo examina el relato de Jack London “La Peste Escarlata” desde la perspectiva de la actual epidemiología evolucionista, sosteniendo que su comprensión pesimista de la dinámica epidemiológica en poblaciones crecientes, y su visión catastrofista de la evolución, son esencialmente correctas y se hallan muy por delante de las ideas recibi…[Read more]
Victoria Addis deposited Forming Ecomasculinities through Deep Ecology in Gravity’s Rainbow in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
This article examines the concept of ecomasculinity – how masculinities and ecologies interact – through the lens of deep ecology, arguing (following Serpil Oppermann) that Pynchon’s postmodernist boundary collapsing informs deep-ecological interconnections for male characters previously embroiled in negative cycles of patriarchal dominance.…[Read more]
Marianne Groep-Foncke deposited Water’s worth. Urban society and subsidiarity in seventeenth-century Holland in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
By taking water as a viewpoint, this dissertation reveals that the urban communities of seventeenth-century Holland were highly subsidiary in nature. Individual townspeople, men and women alike, knew how to fend for themselves, incidentally having recourse to other inhabitants, businessmen, corporations or magistrates. Together, they constituted a…[Read more]
Yung-Tse Hung deposited Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association (OCEESA) Report, Regular Issue, February 2020 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
This OCEESA report, which is regular issue of OCEESA Journal (Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association Journal). This report is OCEESA report number: OCEESA/JL-2020/3701, February 2020, ISSN 1072 -7248. This report is also OCEESA Journal, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2020. Yung-Tse Hung, Permanent Executive Director,…[Read more]
Stefano Verri deposited L’arte e il pensiero ecologico sul paesaggio in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]
Dorothy Kidd deposited Standing rock and the Indigenous commons in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based…[Read more]
Dorothy Kidd deposited Extra-activism: counter-mapping and data justice in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then capitalist extraction of natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since the fifteenth century to highlight potential sites of mineral, oil, and gas…[Read more]
Stefano Verri deposited Landscape: art and ecological thinking in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans’s relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of…[Read more]
Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited The “Mayan” Train: Mexico’s latest industrial expansion renewed / El Tren Maya: la renovación de la última forntera industrial de México in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Mexico’s president Lopez Obrador launched four major industrial projects as a part of his so-called fourth transformation, promoted as a turning point after decades of structural reforms and an export based economy. A new oil refinery and metropolitan airport and two trains that connect southeastern Mexico with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans a…[Read more]
Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 17 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Earth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 17 includes the sections: Your Future Starts Here, Decent and Dignified Jobs, Voices of Child Labor, Prepare for a Career, Become a Volunteer, Youth Employment in…[Read more]
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited “Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
“Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020): 3
John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Knowledge and Household Preparations of Selected Communities in Central Luzon, Philippines: Basis for Enhanced Community Disaster Education Program in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Disaster is nature’s worst event that can happen anytime and anywhere. It creates unfathomable destruction to everything. This study aimed to analyse and explore the disaster knowledge and household preparations of individuals in selected communities located in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study used a descriptive r…[Read more]
Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
Priscila Ramos-Carvalho deposited FAIR climate change: emergent data framework in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
The proposal is to discuss the design of a framework based on FAIR principles focused on the climate change concept on two approaches: metadata to improve data recovery efficiency, and use of FAIR parameters to problem solutions, decision making, public policies, and process reproduction. In addition, this project can contribute to mitigating…[Read more]
Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Pirate Traces. An Existential Response to Gary Hall’s ‘Anti-Bourgeois Theory’ in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Late in the summer of 2019, Gary Hall gave a series of talks hosted by the Philosophy Department at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. One of them was titled ‘Liberalism Must be Defeated. On the Obsolescence of Bourgeois Theory in the Anthropocene’. As the organizer of this event, I was curious about the reception of this argument in a con…[Read more]
Francesco Luzzini deposited Sounding the depths of providence: Mineral (re)generation and human-environment interaction in the early modern period in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The genesis and growth of minerals, as well as the existence in ore veins of such organic features as ‘seeds’, ‘matrices’, and ‘nourishment’, remained central and recurrent issues for natural philosophers, technicians, alchemists and practitioners throughout early modern Europe. By providing an overview of the main themes, voices, and concurrent…[Read more]
John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Management Program Compliance and Problems Encountered in Two Provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Disaster management is one area in the field that comes with a heavy burden of administrative functions and compliances. Thus, it is vital to consider among managers to put the best man in the field. The purpose of this study is to find out the disaster management program compliance of participants in two provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines.…[Read more]
John Mark R. Asio deposited Natural Calamity, Its Impact and Level of Preparations: Significance and Implications to the Community in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
The purpose of the study is to analyze the knowledge of natural calamity, its impact and level of preparations of respondents in Central Luzon, Philippines. This study employed a descriptive-correlation design. 125 respondents participated in the survey with the use of convenience sampling technique. We drafted a questionnaire and subjected it to…[Read more]
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