"What is Global Environmental History?"
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
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.
A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
Sir Crispin Tickell scans what industrial countries can and have to do in order to give a lead in global arrangements to alleviate economic and ecological problems.
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
Paul M. Wood discusses biodiversity as the source of biological resources.
Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.