Each year, Earth Day—April 22—marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. The very first Earth Day celebration brought 20 million Americans to the streets to peacefully demonstrate for environmental protection.

In celebration of Earth Day, Berghahn Journals is delighted to offer free access to a selection of journal articles from a range of history, politics, and anthropology journals—including EnviroSociety’s very own Environment and Society: Advances in Research. The articles can be accessed on Berghahn’s new online platform through the links in the table of contents below

Berghahn Books is also offering a 25% discount off Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance, edited by Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken (January 2016, paperback), by using the promo code UEK074.

As always, EnviroSociety offers free access to all five volumes’ introductions, which are available as PDF downloads on the site’s Journal page, as well as access to a new featured article every month. This month’s article, “Origins, Uses, and Transformation of Extinction Rhetoric” by Richard Ladle and Paul Jepson (Volume 1, 2011), can be accessed here.

Happy Earth Day!

Articles

Reclaiming the lake: Citizenship and environment-as-common-property in highland Peru
Mattias Borg Rasmussen — Focaal 74

Infrastructures of progress and dispossession: Collective responses to shrinking water access among farmers in Arequipa, Peru
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen — Focaal 74

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene?
George Holmes — Environment and Society 6

Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making
Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt and Anna Tsing — Environment and Society 6

People, Planet, Power: Toward a New Social Settlement
Anna Coote — International Journal of Social Quality 5(1)

Nature, History, and Culture as Tourism Attractors: The Double Translation of Insider and Outsider Media
Mark C. J. Stoddart and Paula Graham Nature and Culture — 11(1)

Dam Close: Water Resources and Productions of Harmony in Central Japan
Eric J. Cunningham — Nature and Culture 11(1)

Bringing water challenges to target groups: French water utilities within the European legislative context
Céline Hervé-Bazin — Regions and Cohesion 5(2)

 Environmental governance in the EU–Latin American relationship
Roberto Dominguez — Regions and Cohesion 5(3)

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Now and then scientists act in concert to speak truth to power. Back in the 1970s, for example, they invented and used the idea of a “nuclear winter,” which became a semantic weapon that helped de-escalate the Cold War arms race between the communist countries and members of NATO. Today the daily war against Earth is a prime focus: teams of scientists have coined new terms to sound the alarm about humanity’s various misuses of the nonhuman world. Chief among them is the Anthropocene. It describes human impacts on Earth of such scope, scale, and magnitude as to initiate a new phase of the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. “Anthropo” means people, “cene” an extended period: “the age of humans,” as a rough translation. Originating in environmental science at the turn of the millennium, the Anthropocene may soon graduate from an academic buzzword to a keyword—that is, one of those terms that animates inquiry within and between a plethora of disciplines over a long period of time (in the ways that “globalization” and “genetic modification” have done since the mid-1990s).

Read More “Anthropocene Science: There May Be Trouble Ahead”

The latest Environment and Society featured article is now available! This month’s article, “Origins, Uses, and Transformation of Extinction Rhetoric,” comes from Volume 1 (2010). Richard Ladle and Paul Jepson trace the historical origins of the extinction concept and discuss its power to influence policies, agendas, and behaviors.

Visit the featured article page to download your copy of the article today before it’s gone! A new article is featured every month.

RICHARD LADLE is Titular Professor of Conservation Biogeography and Director the 21^st Century Conservation Lab at the Federal University of Alagoas. He is  a Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, where he was formerly the Course Director of the MSc degree program in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management (2003–2009). He has diverse and interdisciplinary research interests that span all aspects of the theory and practice of conservation.

PAUL JEPSON directs the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the University of Oxford. He transferred to academia from a career in conservation policy, working in the UK, Indonesia, and Indochina, and he now leads an interdisciplinary conservation governance laboratory working to generate novel and creative insight to help ensure the relevance and impact of conservation in the twenty-first century.