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Black Placemaking under Environmental Stressors

Dryland Farming in the Arid Black Pacific, 1890–1930

Maya L. Shamsid-Deen and Jayson M. Porter

collectively survive these harsh environments. Furthermore, Black placemaking through dryland farming in Mexico and the US Southwest highlights the resourceful ingenuity and resilience of Black farmers. An understanding how Black communities practiced dry

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Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black Ecologies

Mukul Sharma

significant struggles over Dalits’ access, occupation, and rights in the natural and physical environment, and how in the process, themes of social and environmental justice appeared on the forefront. Through contemporary cultural, social, and political

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Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life

Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research

Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl

the interaction of social aggregates and their material, technical, or natural environment ( Lejano and Stokols 2013 ). In the face of a new type of social-ecological problems like climate change, the depletion of the ozone layer, and land degradation

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Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging

Environmental Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist

have been selected because they are among the most influential ones. The Treadmill of Production The theory of the treadmill of production ( Gould et al. 2008 ; Schnaiberg 1977 , 1980 ), which applies a political economy approach to the environment

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Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

Eleanor Sterling, Tamara Ticktin, Tē Kipa Kepa Morgan, Georgina Cullman, Diana Alvira, Pelika Andrade, Nadia Bergamini, Erin Betley, Kate Burrows, Sophie Caillon, Joachim Claudet, Rachel Dacks, Pablo Eyzaguirre, Chris Filardi, Nadav Gazit, Christian Giardina, Stacy Jupiter, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Joe McCarter, Manuel Mejia, Kanoe Morishige, Jennifer Newell, Lihla Noori, John Parks, Pua’ala Pascua, Ashwin Ravikumar, Jamie Tanguay, Amanda Sigouin, Tina Stege, Mark Stege, and Alaka Wali

understanding and managing social-ecological systems. The majority of the initiatives presented here have been developed within social-ecological systems in Pacific Island environments. However, the lessons learned can be applied more broadly. Case Study

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A Crystal Ball for Forests?

Analyzing the Social-Ecological Impacts of Forest Conservation and Management over the Long Term

Daniel C. Miller, Pushpendra Rana, and Catherine Benson Wahlén

countries across the globe. The expanding role of indicators forms part of a broader movement toward evidence-based policy and management that has coursed through virtually all sectors of economy, environment, and society. Drawing inspiration from medicine

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Adaptation Lived as a Story

Why We Should Be Careful about the Stories We Use to Tell Other Stories

Nicole Klenk

, and Hege Westskog . 2010 . “ Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation: A Question of Multilevel Governance? ” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28 ( 2 ): 276 – 289 . https://doi.org/10.1068/c0941 . 10.1068/c0941

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Black Spatial Affordances and the Residential Ecologies of the Great Migration

Amani C. Morrison

In 1970, Nathan Hare termed the ongoing relationship Black people in the United States have with the environment and their investments in the maintenance thereof as Black ecology. He highlighted the focus on white recreational space present in the

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Black as Drought

Arid Landscapes and Ecologies of Encounter across the African Diaspora

Brittany Meché

useful in theorizing Black ecological thought and contemplating Black livelihoods in a range of physical environments? As such, I survey a number of theoretical and artistic engagements with deserts to sketch out other Black ecological encounters. First

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Towards Dalit Ecologies

Indulata Prasad

socioeconomic phenomenon of untouchability has mediated Dalits’ knowledge of their physical environment and their ability to survive in ways that mirror Black experiences of ecological discrimination based on race. In the epigraph above, Dalit poet Atholi taps