New publication

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New book: Running Out? Water in Western Australia

Ruth A. Morgan University of Western Australia Press, 320 pp, PB, February 2015. For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear...

An Update on Environmental Humanities news from Switzerland

A new report "Developing the Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: An Evaluation of Opportunities, Challenges, and Priorities in Research, Teaching, and Institutional Support" by Christoph Kueffer, Philippe Foret and Marcus Hall, and commissioned by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences is now available (PDF) The...

No Island is an Island

Aeon Magazine is one of the great outreach initiatives in the Environmental Humanities. I am very pleased to have my latest publication there No island is an island in a cosmopolitan age Libby Robin...

Environmental Humanities – volume 5 now available

We're very pleased to announce that volume 5 of Environmental Humanities is now available online. http://environmentalhumanities.org It's a huge volume, including seven papers in the main section, two provocation pieces, a special section on representing the Anthropocene, and the first instalment of our new Living Lexicon for...

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New Book – Curating Sydney: Imagining the city’s future

Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel December 2014. ISBN 9781742233352. UNSW Press, 256pp, PB, 250 × 150 mm, RRP AU$49.99 NZ$59.99 What happens when artists, architects, writers, designers and curators take on the planning of a city? In the face of an unprecedented environmental challenge, Curating Sydney proposes a bold new remit for...

“Anthropocene.” Photograph by Jason deCaires Taylor.
Rob Nixon “The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea”

The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), a research center within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently launched a new blog titled, Edge Effects. Australian Environmental Humanities researchers will be interested in its content. In the lead up to the Anthropocene Slam: A...