Nature and Culture is a forum for the international community of scholars and practitioners to present, discuss, and evaluate critical issues and themes related to the historical and contemporary relationships that societies, civilizations, empires, regions, nation-states have with Nature. The journal contains a serious interpolation of theory, methodology, criticism, and concrete observation forming the basis of this discussion.

The mission of the journal is to move beyond specialized disciplinary enclaves and mind-sets toward broader syntheses that encompass time, space and structures in understanding the Nature-Culture relationship. The Journal will furthermore provide an outlet for the identification of knowledge gaps in our understanding of this relationship.

Nature and Culture receives financial support for its editorial operations from the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig. www.ufz.de/ (English version)

The Editors and Editorial Board will consider new topics and authors should not be restricted by those listed below. Current themes are as follows:

• Cultural Reactions and Conceptions of Nature;
• Degradation and Restoration of Environment;
• Ecological Time; and
• Ecological Futures.

Current and Forthcoming articles

Nature and Culture Vol. 3, No. 2, 2008

Perspectives

Articles

Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers and Environmentalism
Jamon Alex Halvaksz and Heather E. Young-Leslie

Zoning: Environmental Cosmopolitics in and around the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala
Silvia Posocco

Confronting Nuclear Risks: Counter-expertise as Politics within the French Nuclear Debate
Sezin Topçu

Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Environmental Studies