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Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is an open-access online publication for peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that showcase the work of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and its community across the world. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, it publishes sharp writing with an impact. Surveying the interrelationship between environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives, it is a place to share rigorous research, test out fresh ideas, question old ones, and to advance public and scholarly debates in the environmental humanities and beyond.

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No. 4

Published October 31, 2023

Miniature on a initial “D” with a scene representing teeth (dentes). A dentist with silver forceps and a necklace of large teeth, extracting the tooth of a seated man. Originally published in James le Palmer, Omne Bonum (London, 1360–75). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. This image has been cropped and edited.

Issue description

The fourth issue of Springs leads us across four continents, from the streets of downtown Los Angeles to the Ecuadorian Amazon, into the woodlands of southwest Nigeria, and along Ukraine’s Dnipro river. Frank Zelko yanks ... See the full issue

Articles

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    Frank Zelko (Author)

    In the Teeth of History: Dental Decay in the Longue Durée

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-4806.
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    Jens Kersten (Author)

    Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-5293
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    Jenny Price (Author)

    Adventures in Mockstitutions

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-5211
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    Francesca Mezzenzana, Brady Fauth (Author)

    Not Every Kid Is WEIRD: A Conversation with Francesca Mezzenzana

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-5357
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    Paul Josephson (Author)

    Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-4880
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    Irus Braverman (Author)

    Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-4870
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    Serenella Iovino (Author)

    Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-4966
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    Joseph Adeniran Adedeji (Author)

    Yoruba Architectural Sites in Nigeria

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-5005
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    Amelia Fiske, Jonas Fischer (Author)

    Crude Encounters

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-4723