Nature and Culture
Aims & Scope
Editors: Sing C. Chew, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and Humboldt State University and Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
NC is now indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)!
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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
- Ecological Futures
Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Environmental Studies
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2013
Perspectives
Germany’s Energy Transition under Attack: Is there an Inscrutable German Sonderweg?
Erik Gawel, Sebastian Strunz, and Paul Lehmann
Articles
Reflexive Shifts in Climate Research and Education: Towards Relocalizing our Lives
Timothy B. Leduc and Susan A. Crate
Mapping Multivalent Metaphors: Analyzing the Wildnis Metaphor in the Zwischenstadt Discourse in Terms of Political World Views
Vera Vicenzotti
The Hunt as Love and Kill: Hunter-Prey Relations in the Discourse of Contemporary Hunting Magazines
Jennifer Rebecca Kelly and Stacy Rule
Converting Community Knowledge into Catchment Nutrient Limits: A Constructivist Analysis of a New Zealand Collaborative Approach to Water Management
Ronlyn Duncan
Review Essay
Capitalism, Socialism, and the Environment
David L. Kelly