The Power of Maps
Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.
Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution reveals how today’s global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.
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 article sketches the contours of the emerging paradigm: a complementary system of traditional and modern methods of water provision, a participatory water resources management and a ‘post-mechanistic’ ethico-religious framework.
This paper demonstrates how a Political Economy of Wealth—an analytical framework inspired from Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of value—strengthens the analytical force of Socio-Ecological Economics in the context of the controversy over the value of nature.
This article reflects on Aristotle’s conceptions of friendship and goodwill and if they can serve as a model for a virtuous relationship with nature.
In this paper the authors make an argument for limiting veterinary expenditure on companion animals. The argument combines two principles: The obligation to give and the self-consciousness requirement.
This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.