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Sea Visibility and the Anxious Coastal Gaze 海上能见度和焦虑的海岸凝视

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Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.3197/ge.2021.140308

Isaac Land

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More-than-human Infrastructure for Just Resilience: Learning from, Working with, and Designing for Bald Cypress Trees (Taxodium distichum) in the Mississippi River Delta 比人类更有弹性的基础设施:从密西西比河三角洲的秃柏树(Taxodium distichum)中学习，工作和设计

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Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.3197/ge.2021.140302

Bonnie J. Gordon, S. Roudavski

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A Perfect Storm in The Amazon Wilderness. Success and failure in the fight to save an ecosystem of critical importance to the planet 亚马逊荒野的完美风暴。拯救对地球至关重要的生态系统的斗争的成败

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Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.3197/ge.2021.140210

T. Killeen

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Luigi Piccioni The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1936. 路易吉·皮乔尼:国家心爱的面孔:意大利第一次自然保护运动，1880-1936。

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Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.3197/ge.2021.140208

Marcus Hall

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Khedas in South-Eastern Bengal: Colonialism and Wildlife 1765–1810 孟加拉东南部的赫达人:殖民主义和野生动物1765-1810