SAGE – Human Landscape

Activism, Human Landscape, Print Edition

Poisoned Land, Poisoned Bodies

Angelina stood on the solid, familiar earth and looked up. The cliff extended high into the sky, until the sun broke just over its edge. With trepidation, she lifted one foot off the ground and placed it tenderly onto a …

by Krista Mangiardi × April 26, 2020 × 1 comment

Agriculture, Human Landscape

Red Soil, Green Gold, Dark Secrets

he bones of deceased Guaraní shamans used to decorate forest pockets in pre-colonial times, when Mata Atlântica, “The Atlantic Forest,” still stretched out its arms across South America. From modern-day northeastern Argentina to the southern Brazilian coast, the “Atlantic …

by Klas Lundström × November 7, 2019 × 0 comments

Conservation, Culture, Indigenous Peoples

The Valley of Uncertainty

An indigenous people dislocated by conservation and development in Southwest China.

by Nick Lo × January 22, 2019 × 1 comment

Agriculture, Culture, Politics

Urban Farm-Fed Cities: Lessons from Cuba’s Organopónicos

An intimate portrait of urban farms in Cuba explores the implications for sustainable agriculture and food access for urban communities.

by Tess McNamara × November 23, 2018 × 0 comments

2018 Print Edition, Conservation, Fisheries

In the southwest corner of British Columbia, a great river flows from a canyon in Hope. Hope marks the start of an historic aquatic corridor in the Lower Fraser River Valley. Here the river runs along rich floodplains, through metro Vancouver, and, ultimately, to freedom from the bounds of land at the Salish Sea. For centuries the region has sustained populations of people and wildlife alike, a fertile crescent of the West.

What is Lost and Found on the Fraser River

Through mud-caked and marsh-soaked lenses, a photojournalism team reveals the inseparable link between the survival of a fish and the future of a city.

by Courtney L. Sexton and Michael O. Snyder × July 1, 2018 × 1 comment