There is this amazing article in the German Fundamental Law, called article 20a. It says: “Der Staat schützt auch in Verantwortung für die künftigen Generationen die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und die Tiere im Rahmen der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung durch die Gesetzgebung und nach Maßgabe von Gesetz und Recht durch die vollziehende Gewalt...
My book From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis was published by Open Book Publishers in July 2023. You can read it online, download the pdf, or purchase printed copies at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0355. In this book, I reflect on access to text in the digital...
As a scientist, I have to live with an unbearable contradiction: while science is producing all the data that show that we find ourselves in the midst of a massive climate and biodiversity crisis – as well as the models that would make it possible for us to avoid worst...
I have spent five months writing a book. It turns out, when you write a book, there remains little time to blog. Then by September my sabbatical ended, and there remained time for about nothing. As I have started rattling around in the wheel of everyday academic madness again, it...
I have always loved the DHd conferences, but this year’s is even better. It’s organized by people that are uniquely dear to my heart, and they have done an amazing job organizing this (now fully online) conference. They have even managed to bring together a long paper session with people...
There are things you think you are going to understand, eventually – and things you have to ask about because after a few months, it is pretty clear you won’t magically seize the big picture well enough to make sense of the details. Ever since I joined ecoinfo last fall,...
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