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Author Archives: Tom Dwight

Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Living rivers

Rivers are interesting things. They flow inexorably towards the sea, carrying what was once billions [...]

Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Plant blindness – the botanical bias that no-one has heard of

Plants are all around us from urban parks to the rolling countryside to the insides [...]

A history of some major ecological literary discourses

Ecocriticism and the environmental humanities Ecofiction, novels based around environmental themes, and so-called Doomer Lit [...]

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Book Review: Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ATLAS OF THE MAMMALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Derek Crawley et al & [...]

Future stewardship of national landscapes: challenges and opportunities of the Glover report

The Landscapes Review It is just over seventy years since the National Parks and Access [...]

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Book Review: Untangling the Knot

UNTANGLING THE KNOT, BELUGAS & BEARS: My natural World on Film Mike Potts Whittles Publishing, [...]

Liberating nature: False hopes from the lockdown?

Is nature really gaining ground from the lockdown, or just being noticed more and getting [...]

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Admitting defeat: why I am quitting nature conservation

Disclaimer: while this piece refers to various conservation organisations and structures, I apologise in advance [...]

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Book Review: Irreplaceable

IRREPLACEABLE: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places Julian Hoffman Hamish Hamilton & Penguin, 2019, [...]

Book Review: The Imagination of Plants

THE IMAGINATION OF PLANTS: A Book of Botanical Mythology Mathew Hall State University of New [...]