Voices of Transition
This film explores how various communities around the world are transitioning to a more sustainable and local way of life.
This film explores how various communities around the world are transitioning to a more sustainable and local way of life.
This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
The essay sheds light on the implications of Chernobyl as a national site of memory in Germany, France, and Belarus. The comparative perspective reveals the importance of underlying structures such as national (nuclear) politics, elite and expert culture, environmentalism, and the role of individual agency.
This article studies the aetiology underlying water management by exploring the social hermeneutics that determined its construction. It details how science, technology and political relations construct each other mutually, both producing and harnessing the scientific discourse on the environment.