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New Zealand and the Protection of Endemic Species
by David Neufeld New Zealander settlers are practical. Progress – generally understood as economic gain – remains a paramount value. Even so there was an early interest in the protection […]
Representing Northern Environmental Histories
by Jonathan Luedee The first thing I noticed when I stepped out of Stockholm’s central station was the position of the sun in the sky. It was only slightly after […]
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines and Borders in the Study of Northern Environments
by Isabel Lemus-Lauzon Where does the North begin? Does history solely concern human history? Who is indigenous? These are just a few of the questions and thoughts that came up at the […]
Nouveau portail des Humanités environnementales
Avec le soutien du ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable et de l’Énergie, l’Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, en collaboration avec le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, lance le site http://humanitesenvironnementales.fr/ Les […]
The Dominion of Nature ~ Inspirations & Motivations
The Speech for the Throne last month concluded by recalling that “our founding Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald said of Canada’s future that he saw ‘a great nation – […]
Northern Media Environments
by Rafico Ruiz Just a few weeks ago, an outstanding group of graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars from across Scandinavia, Russia, the United States and Canada […]
Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland
by Tina Loo Apart from an epic visit to the ABBA Museum, one of the memories I have of the recent Northern Nations, Northern Natures workshop in Stockholm comes from […]
Bilan du Congrès de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française
C’est avec un peu de retard que je vous offre aujourd’hui un petit bilan des sessions en histoire environnementale qui ont eu lieu lors du Congrès de l’Institut d’histoire de […]
Northern Nations, Northern Natures: Alliteration and the Arctic in Stockholm
by Dagomar Degroot For Canadians, the far North is integral to our identity, although many of us are not always sure how, or why. We are the “true North,” and […]
Aftermath of the storm: How Sandy resurrected a fifty year-old erosion control plan (again)
by Jackie Mirandola Mullen New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand issued a press release in August, nearly one year after Superstorm Sandy, in which they pleaded with the United […]
Bienvenue sur le site internet 2.0 du NiCHE
C’est avec plaisir que je vous soumets aujourd’hui la version française du mot de bienvenue publié au début novembre pour annoncer le tout nouveau site internet du NiCHE (en espérant […]
Exploring extractive industries in the Arctic
by Arn Keeling With considerable popular and scholarly attention drawn to the future of the Arctic due to climate change, Memorial University hosted a two-day international workshop, organized by the […]
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