Published in Wilderness & environmental medicine
High-altitude expeditions expose teams to particular medical, environmental, and social challenges that can have unintended and severe consequences for crew members. In June 2017, the 9-d Equal Playing Field (EPF) expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro to set a world record for the highest-altitude soccer match ever played demonstrated the variety of chal...
Lors d’une conférence prononcée en 1984, Umberto Eco dressait le constat d’un regain d’intérêt pour le Moyen Âge dans la culture occidentale d’alors. Cela reste vrai quatre décennies plus tard et le phénomène teinte un grand nombre de fictions postcatastrophiques dans lesquelles cette période historique est mise à profit pour dépeindre sous un jour...
Building off the extensive criticism surrounding the American wilderness in settler-colonial and Indigenous studies, “Narrating the American Wilderness” examines how the paradoxical variations of the wilderness (the demonic, the sublime, and the innocent) condition settler-colonialists to accept a fictional wilderness as reality. Through continual ...
Depuis ses débuts, l'œuvre littéraire de Laura Pugno est traversée par la question du « sauvage » et du « domestique ». Source première de ce que l’autrice, après Freud, nomme « l’inquiétante étrangeté », celle-ci se lie notamment au brouillement des frontières entre la culture et la nature et entre l'humain et l'animal. L’article entend donc parco...
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Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
costa, huella humana, impacto humano cumulativo, litoral, presión humana, restauración, tierras vírgenes Resumen El manejo de la interfaz entre la tierra y el mar es esencial para los objetivos mundiales de conservación y sustentabilidad ya que las regiones costeras mantienen los procesos naturales que sostienen a la biodiversidad y al sustento de ...
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4. Quality education / 13. Climate action
What is the relevance of the concept of wilderness today? For some, the recognition of a troubled history of wilderness regarding people of color does not challenge its pertinence in facing the ecological crisis. However, the author contends that the wilderness concept is problematic because of its inability to recognize other conceptualizations of...
Published in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Wilderness areas are not immune to changes in land use, land cover, and/or climate. Future changes will intensify the balancing act of maintaining ecological conditions and untrammeled character within wilderness areas. We assessed the quantitative and spatial changes in land use, land cover, and climate predicted to occur in and around wilderness ...
