The Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020 that razed more than half of the landscape on Kangaroo Island in South Australia left an indelible mark on the island’s unique native biodiversity, which is still struggling to recover. However, one big bonus for the environment’s recovery is the likely eradication of feral pigs (Sus scrofa). Invasive feral pigs cause […]| ConservationBytes.com
Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of species beyond their native biogeographical ranges, facilitating their potential spread. Over the last few decades, invasive species have incurred an average cost of at least […]| ConservationBytes.com
Lecturer (tenure track) Environmental Economics: The system-level modelling perspective Hasselt University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Lecturer position in Environmental Economics. The position will focus on system-level modeling of decarbonization. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and research within the Environmental Economics research group and the Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK). Responsibilities include […]| The International Society for Ecological Economics
Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of species beyond their native biogeographical ranges, facilitating their potential spread. Over the last few decades, invasive species have incurred an average cost of at leastContinue reading "Less affluent countries more prone to damage caused by biological invas...| Global Ecology @ Flinders
This post, a follow-up to my earlier posts “La longue purée” and “Jo Guldi’s Curiouser & Curiouser Footnotes”, examines the recent revisions made to The History Ma…| pseudoerasmus
In The History Manifesto, two historians, Jo Guldi of Brown and David Armitage of Harvard, urge their peers to turn away from microhistory and go back to doing Big History in the longue durée tradi…| pseudoerasmus