Arrivals and Departures : The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity / edited by Otto Latva, Heta Lahdesm aki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Harri Uusitalo.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - The Human Relationship with the Changing Biodiversity -- Part I: Belonging and Non-Belonging -- 1 "It is Like Diving in a Pea Soup": The Development of the Relationship between Humans and Blue-Green Algae in Finland in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries -- 2 Entangled Endangerments: "Revitalising the Gray Whale and its Hunt" -- 3 Franklinia Alatamaha: Here and Gone in the Anthropocene -- 4 Negotiating Belonging in Multispecies Cities: Rats, Birds and Humans as Neighbours in the City of Helsinki -- Part II: Emotions -- 5 Love and Loss: Corals and Cultural Sustainability in Caribbean Popular Romance Novels -- 6 The White-Tailed Eagle on the Brink of Extinction in Twentieth-Century Finland: A Digital Approach to Emotional Responses in the Media -- 7 Emotions of Contested Migrations: The Return of the Wolf across the Polish-German Border -- Part III: Environmental Policy -- 8 Nature Conservation as a More-Than- Human World: From Managerial to Ecological Thinking -- 9 Blow It Up for the Birds: Neoliberal Protection in Franzen's Freedom -- 10 Shallow Sustainability as Progressive Environmental Policy: An Ecolinguistic and Ecofeminist Reading of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's 2018 Wildlife Strategy Report -- Index.

This book explores the human relationship to changing biodiversity by bringing together multidisciplinary insights into human-nature relations from the humanities. New animal and plant species arrive and previously existing ones may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the changes have been understudied so far. This book approaches the human relationship with changing biodiversity from three different angles: belonging and non-belonging, emotions, and environmental policy. The question of belonging and non-belonging is crucial when it comes to changing biodiversity. The authors ask who decides where species can move and live and when invasive becomes native. Similarly, emotions have a big role in human-nature relations. The book shows why we grieve the loss of some species and hate some other species, and how our emotions change over time. The writers also aim to show how environmental policies, or the practice of governing species, are affected by societal discussion, emotions, scientific research, and topical concepts as well as how these policies shape biodiversity and our perceptions of different species. The authors provide fresh insights into human-nature relations and explain why we need multidisciplinary approaches in order to fully understand their complexity.

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