Why Poverty? Stealing Africa
This film examines how a Swiss village profits from a corporation’s majority stake in Zambia’s copper resources, while Zambia remains one of the twenty poorest countries in the world.
This film examines how a Swiss village profits from a corporation’s majority stake in Zambia’s copper resources, while Zambia remains one of the twenty poorest countries in the world.
This film examines a vibrant urban farming movement that is catching on across the globe.
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.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.