Environment

Environment

In the Shadow of the Palms: Plant-Human Relations Among the Marind-Anim, West Papua – Sophie Chao, John Legge Thesis Prize Winner

Can you tell us a bit about your thesis. What’s the problem it explores and what did you find? My thesis, In the Shadow of the Palms: Plant-Human Relations among Marind, West Papua, investigates how Indigenous Marind communities in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua experience, conceptualize, and contest the adverse social and environmental impacts […]

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The Yu Yuan gardens, Shanghai.

Decoding the landscape: finding meaning in Northeast Asia’s urban green spaces

BEN HABIB combines his interests in permaculture and international relations to reflect on the greening of urban landscapes in China and Korea. Landscapes—urban built environments, rural agricultural settings and wilderness areas—can be a rich source of information about the political economy and culture of a country. Through my academic interests in international environmental politics I

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