relationship to nature and the environment. California’s drought was already a national news item on May 5, 2015, when Santa Barbara declared a Stage 3 drought 1 ( Welsh 2015 ), and the dry conditions have persisted since. I will argue that drought conditions
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citizens in the state. This was certainly not the first time hazardous waste deposits had been intentionally situated in close proximity to people of color and the poor, but the Warren Country protests brought national media attention to the issue and
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Brock Ternes and Brian Donovan
fields. Just as work on “sonic habitus” ( Schwarz 2015 ) describes how habituation to sounds are shaped by cultural meanings and collective identity, we offer a similar vision for watering: it is structured around a hydrologic habitus that embodies a
Pamela McElwee
plastic enough to adapt to local needs and the constraints of the several parties employing them, yet be robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites” (393). ES as a boundary object tie multiple perspectives and ideas together, many of which
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Illness, Invisibility, and Empowerment of Communities Struck by the Fracking Boom
Kristen M. Schorpp
activists” who are negotiating the boundary between activism and conservative political identities (110). Despite the social capital that these activists possess, however, they are unable to exert much influence on local politics when battling against the
Park Spaces and the User Experience
Reconsidering the Body in Park Analysis Tools
Eric A. Stone and Jennifer D. Roberts
“Walking [in Nature] Is Man's Best Medicine” Recently, DC Park Rx relaunched itself as a new national organization, Park Rx America, that encourages healthcare providers to prescribe outdoor activity in parks and greenspaces as a way of expanding
Unsettling the Land
Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Colonialism
Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove
Indigenous space. As Carroll notes, “the need to maintain land-based practices as critical components of tribal identities continues to make the topic of land reacquisition and consolidation central to the study Indigenous environmental issues, and, despite
Symbolizing Destruction
Environmental Activism, Moral Shocks, and the Coal Industry
Alison E. Adams, Thomas E. Shriver, and Landen Longest
and Klandermans 2013). In certain contexts, outward-focused anger can strengthen collective identity and solidarity around a common grievance ( Simon and Klandermans 2001 ; see also Eyerman 2007 ; Whittier 2007 ). The collective expression of anger
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rate of poverty despite being located in one of the wealthiest provinces in the country. The governmental social allowance programs were schemes designed at national or provincial levels but there were also municipal programs. Some of these programs
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An Analytical Review of Coastal Eutrophication and Social Conflict
Alix Levain, Carole Barthélémy, Magalie Bourblanc, Jean-Marc Douguet, Agathe Euzen, and Yves Souchon
the French ministries of the environment and agriculture to review the current state of research on eutrophication, with special emphasis on land-water interactions along the land-water-sea continuum. A national charter signed by the National Center