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Bigger tides, less flooding: Effects of dredging on barotropic dynamics in a highly modified estuary.

Climate change involves human societies in problems of loss: depletion, disappearance, and collapse. The climate changes and changes other things, in specifically destructive ways. What can and should sociology endeavour to know about this particular form of social change? This article outlines the sociology of loss as a project for sociological engagement with climate change, one that breaks out of environmental sociology as the conventional silo of research and bridges to other subfields. I address four interrelated dimensions of loss that climate change presents: the materiality of loss; the politics of loss; knowledge of loss; and practices of loss. Unlike “sustainability”—the more dominant framing in the social sciences of climate change—the sociology of loss examines what does, will, or must disappear rather than what can or should be sustained. Though the sociology of loss requires a confrontation with the melancholia of suffering people and places, it also speaks to new solidarities and positive transformations.

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The Sociology of Climate Change as a Sociology of Loss

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The age of sail in the Age of Aquarius: preserving memory and identity at New York's South Street Seaport

This article takes an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear “natural” and stable wh...

Shifting shorelines: Land reclamation and economic blackmail in industrial South Chicago:

OF THE THESIS: PALIMPSEST: THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF CAMP KILMER ON LIVINGSTON CAMPUS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY – NEW BRUNSWICK by KIMBERLY ANN TRYBA Thesis Director: Kathleen John-Alder For more than two hundred years, land management in the United States has often embraced taking a tabula rasa approach, through which the landscape has been successively cleared and manipulated to prepare it for reuse. Alternately adding and erasing layers has modified the landscape, often irreparably. While efficient and costeffective, this tactic dismisses the concept of the landscape as an historical product consisting of layers of events and actions. Furthermore, a tabula rasa approach does not recognize and celebrate this historical legacy, nor does it offer an opportunity to either engage the members of the Rutgers community and the larger community beyond the boundaries of the campus with the importance of this history, or to integrate the academic mission of Rutgers University as a future plans for the site are developed. Through this thesis, I chronicle the transition of a site with a hidden history on the Rutgers University’s Livingston Campus by following the historical development of its natural and cultural landscapes with the objective of identifying opportunities to express these narratives. Inspired by the concept of “palimpsest” in both its literal definition as physical evidence of historic reuse, and the academic premise outlined by André Corboz

Palimpsest: the cultural landscape of Camp Kilmer on Livingston Campus, Rutgers University – New Brunswick

Recent literature in urban studies tends to extol the environmental virtue of high density. New Yorker staff writer David Owen, for instance, uses New York as the example par excellence to support ...

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