environment Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/environment/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:19:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 From Local Knowledge: Ecological Relationships in the World of Water https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/from-local-knowledge-ecological-relationships-in-the-world-of-water/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:37:44 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3386 This essay focuses on the supportive efforts of Tropenbos International Colombia to bring to light the vast knowledge and close relationship indigenous peoples in the Colombian Amazon have with their surroundings.

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]]> Más Arte Más Acción: Utopia’s 500th https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/mas-arte-mas-accion-utopias-500th/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:52:11 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3309 This essay presents the work of Más Arte Más Acción, a UK–Colombian non-profit cultural foundation set up in 2009 by visual artist Fernando Arias and cultural manager Jonathan Colin.

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]]> Environmental Activism in the Middle East: Prospects and Challenges https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/environmental-activism-in-the-middle-east-prospects-and-challenges/ Thu, 24 May 2018 19:17:58 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3185 Environmental activism has intensified across the Middle East and North Africa over the past few decades, focusing primarily on environmental issues that affect public health, livelihoods, and essential services.

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]]> What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/what-water-teaches-wissenschaft-in-the-age-of-sea-level-rise/ Thu, 24 May 2018 18:57:23 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3178 Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.

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