How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of deepening environmental crisis? Papers collected here address this question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in a range of study areas, including Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, British and American Literature and Film Studies.

Steven Hartman, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor in the Department of Tourism and Geography at Mid Sweden University, Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Co-Convenor of the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory based at Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland.