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Challenges, Volume 16, Issue 2

June 2025 - 11 articles

Cover Story: Imagine it is the year 2100. People and environments around you are thriving. What do you see? This study explores such visions of the future of Iceland. Through qualitative analysis of 63 in-person interviews, three distinct pathways emerged: a utopia marked by social harmony and a renewed connection with nature, an elevated present-day building on current infrastructure improvements, and a dystopia defined by climate-induced disruptions and system collapse. Analysis of these place-based interviews also revealed that most participants had never considered the potential long-term climate futures, which is a critical component of successful anticipatory adaptation. This timely research reflects how individual climate imaginaries can drive collective responses, and how resilience is rooted in place-based identities and community values. View this paper

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Perspective

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Environmental Humanities South: Decolonizing Nature in Highland Asia

Dan Smyer Yü,
Ambika Aiyadurai,
Mamang Dai,
Razzeko Delley,
Rashila Deshar,
Iftekhar Iqbal,
Chi Huyen Truong,
Bhargabi Das,
Mongfing Lepcha and
Thinley Dema
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Challenges2025, 16(2), 19;https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16020019

26 March 2025

We, a group of native scholars based in the Himalayan region, co-author this article to propose an environmental humanities South—concurrently as an Asia-specific interdisciplinary field and a planetary human–nature epistemology of the Gl...

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