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Aims & Scope

Increasing to 3 issues in 2009!

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.

Forthcoming Articles

Nature and Culture Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010

Special Symposium on “Reframing Floods”

Reframing Floods: Proposals and Politics
Anna Wesselink and Jeroen Warner

Reframing Polyrational Floodplains: Land Policy for Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention
Thomas Hartmann

Leadership in Policy Innovation: A Conceptual Map
Peter Scholten

Reframing Floods: The Consequences for Urban Riverfront Developments in North West Europe
Jeuf Spits, Barrie Needham, Toine Smits, and Twan Brinkhof

Integration through Compartmentalization? Pitfalls of “Poldering” in Flood Action Plan 20, Central Bangladesh
Jeroen Warner

Social-ecological Systems Governance: From Paradigm to Management Approach
Niki Frantzeskaki, Jill Slinger, Heleen Vreugdenhil, and Els van Daalen

Evolution of River Management: Up to Integrated and Beyond?
Menno Straatsma and Reinier de Nooij

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Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Environmental Studies