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View article: A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth”
A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth” Open
A traditional goal of science and environmental communication, including climate communication, has been to encourage disinterested or uninformed audiences to pay more attention to the world around them and to shift disinterest and apathy …
View article: Four-Decade Studies of Ecocriticism and Beyond—Retrospect and Prospect: An Interview with Professor Scott Slovic
Four-Decade Studies of Ecocriticism and Beyond—Retrospect and Prospect: An Interview with Professor Scott Slovic Open
Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho in the United States, was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 199…
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View article: Referee report. For: The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Referee report. For: The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading [version 1; peer review: 1 approved] Open
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View article: Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual
Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual Open
This article places the discipline of environmental humanities in relation to Edward Said's "The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals" (2002) and Marybeth Gasman's collection Academics Going Public: How to Write and Speak Beyond Academ…
View article: Special Issue on Ecocriticism
Special Issue on Ecocriticism Open
The field of ecocriticism dates back to the earliest days of humans commenting on cultural expressions of our relationship to the more-than-human world, but we are now living through a particularly vibrant era of ecocritical engagement wit…
View article: Tortoise Love: DH Lawrence on Reptile Orgasm
Tortoise Love: DH Lawrence on Reptile Orgasm Open
In his exploration of sexual desire, the English novelist and poet D.H. Lawrence does not confine himself to the ardours of human beings, Ursula Brangwen, Constance Chatterley or other Women in Love. A sequence of poems devoted to tortoise…
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Animal love is not some Romantic notion or Disney-like phrase for idealists or sweet dreamers. It is the core of a society of change that should give a prominent place to attachments, bonds and connections, to an empathy which some people …
View article: "Cultivating an Ability to Imagine": Ryan Walsh's Reckonings and the Poetics of Toxicity
"Cultivating an Ability to Imagine": Ryan Walsh's Reckonings and the Poetics of Toxicity Open
For nearly two decades since Lawrence Buell defined and anatomized “toxic discourse” in Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond (2001), the storying of toxic experience has received frui…
View article: To Collapse or Not to Collapse? A Joint Interview
To Collapse or Not to Collapse? A Joint Interview Open
At the moment when all countries on the planet are questioning themselves about the post-COVID-19 world, when we are actually experiencing what many authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy novels or films have shown in their works, we might…
View article: Literature and Environment
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Introduction by Scott Slovic and George Hart Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903) by Mary Webb Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (1957) by Kathleen Boardman Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) by Jane Detweiler Wallace Stegner, The…
View article: Language of Warning: The World Scientists' Efforts to Communicate and the Challenge of Poignancy
Language of Warning: The World Scientists' Efforts to Communicate and the Challenge of Poignancy Open
It's one thing to issue a clarion cry (or multiple clarion cries), and yet another thing to be heard.The world scientists' warnings about the direness of our climate predicament have offered detailed, authoritative information about the co…
View article: The Language of Warning: The World Scientists' Efforts to Communicate and the Ch
The Language of Warning: The World Scientists' Efforts to Communicate and the Ch Open
It’s one thing to issue a clarion cry (or multiple clarion cries), and yet another thing to be heard. The world scientists’ warnings about the direness of our climate predicament have offered detailed, authoritative information about the c…
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I've just returned home from an icy walk while thinking of the apocalyptic bushfires currently raging on the other side of the planet in Australia.The story on public radio, as I brush the snow from Hanna's paws, tells of more than a billi…
View article: Savouring What Remains of the World’s Wildness: John Muir, Tree-Climbing, and Experiential, Outdoor Education
Savouring What Remains of the World’s Wildness: John Muir, Tree-Climbing, and Experiential, Outdoor Education Open
SummaryThose who love the natural world have plenty to despair about in today’s world, as wildlands are carved into housing tracts and plumbed for oil and species after species are driven to extinction – a world in which we may well be war…
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View article: Public Impact-Focused Research Survey Results
Public Impact-Focused Research Survey Results Open
The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) Council on Research (COR) led an initiative to define, identify, and develop a recommended path forward for public impact research (PIR). A survey was conducted of APLU instituti…
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View article: Furrowed Brows, Questioning Earth: Minding the Loess Soil of the Palouse
Furrowed Brows, Questioning Earth: Minding the Loess Soil of the Palouse Open
La notion évoquée par Rob Nixon de "violence lente" est l'un des concepts les plus puissants des études littéraires écologiques actuelles ; il nous aide à comprendre les processus non spectaculaires et souvent imperceptibles par lesquels s…
View article: Re-Invigorating HIBAR Research for the 21st Century : Enhancing Fundamental Research Excellence in Service to Society
Re-Invigorating HIBAR Research for the 21st Century : Enhancing Fundamental Research Excellence in Service to Society Open
More than ever, society needs research breakthroughs to address major problems. Universities have a key role to play in discovering the required new knowledge and guiding its application. However, since World War II, universities have been…
View article: 36 Views of Moscow Mountain: Teaching Travel Writing and Mindfulness in the Tradition of Hokusai and Thoreau
36 Views of Moscow Mountain: Teaching Travel Writing and Mindfulness in the Tradition of Hokusai and Thoreau Open
L'auteur américain Henry David Thoreau est un écrivain du voyage qui a rarement quitté sa ville natale de Concorde, Massachusetts, où il a vécu de 1817 à 1862. Son approche du "voyage" consiste à accorder une profonde attention à son envir…
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View article: Language Matters: Environmental Controversy and the Quest for Common Ground
Language Matters: Environmental Controversy and the Quest for Common Ground Open
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the cause of [my] anger is, I suppose, the feeling of destruction, watching the destruction of things that I care passionately about.If we're so stupid that we choose to destroy each other and ourselves, that's bad enough; but if we destro…
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View article: Foreword: Thinking of “Earth Island” on Earth Day 2016
Foreword: Thinking of “Earth Island” on Earth Day 2016 Open
I was recently thinking about how much of the world exists as an abstraction to me. I know the names of distant continents, nations I've never visited, mountains I've never climbed, species that have not yet gone extinct but that I may nev…