"Legal Instruments for Sustainable Environmental Management in Nepal"
Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.
Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.
The issues discussed provide an interface between ‘green history’ and frameworks for sustainable development. An overview of groundwater exploitation is presented with case studies of low flows, the nitrate issue and salinisation of chalk aquifers.
This article proposes a strong role for environmental history in informing current policy and debate in the policy field of sustainability (or, sustainable development).
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate government, in the 1910s, encouraged logging operations on Vanikolo in order to diversify the economy and extend government control in the easternmost islands…
This paper explores the ideology of forest conservation and the evolution of silviculture in the post bellum Cape, as well as the socio-economic impact of these policies, focusing in particular on African populations residing in the Eastern Cape and the impoverished woodcutters from the Knysna Forests.
Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.