• Bettering stories about stories about nature 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Both environmental historians and ecocriticsare in the business of simultaneously analysing the stories we tell about the human-nature relationship and creating those stories. Using the case of Kiki, an Aldabra giant ...
    • Citizen science for environmental citizenship 

      Jørgensen, Finn Arne; Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Citizen science projects, in which citizens are collectors and sensors generating data, have become a well-established scientific practice (Bonney et al. 2016). Citizen science research within environmental conservation ...
    • Competing ideas of 'natural' in a dam removal controversy 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10)
      In spite of general support for removal of dam structures within the ecological sciences community, local residents sometimes contest dam removals. This article examines the competing ideas of 'natural' and 'nature' that ...
    • Environment : Managing urban sanitation for sanitas 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Chapter, 2021)
    • Envisioning North from a Premodern Perspective 

      Jørgensen, Dolly; Langum, Virginia (Chapter, 2018)
      In The Making of Europe, the medieval historian Robert Bartlett argues that ‘Europe is both a region and an idea’. The same can be said of the North. The North is both a geographical region and an imaginative concept that ...
    • Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)
      The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout ...
    • Extinction and the End of Futures 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)
      Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff.It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn’t, ...
    • Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction 

      Jørgensen, Dolly; Robin, Libby; Fojuth, Marie-Theres (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Extinction of nonhuman species, as well as human-induced environmental change in general, is happening at a frighteningly fast pace. A recent global joint scientific assessment suggests that around a million animal and ...
    • Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices 

      O'Gorman, Emily; Van Dooren, Thom; Münster, Ursula; Adamson, Joni; Mauch, Christof; Sörlin, Sverker; Armiero, Marco; Lindström, Kati; Houston, Donna; Pádua, José Augusto; Rigby, Kate; Jones, Owain; Motion, Judy; Muecke, Stephen; Chang, Chia-Ju; Lu, Shuyuan; Jones, Christopher; Green, Lesley; Matose, Frank; Twidle, Hedley; Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Wiggin, Bethany; Jørgensen, Dolly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, ...
    • Tracking Animals in a Pandemic 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The global pandemic puts a spotlight on human-animal relations and how human histories are intertwined with animal bodies. Environmental historians have demonstrated a steadily growing interest in investigating animals ...