"Tasks for Future Ecologists"
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
The authors promote the idea of “Natural Governance” as a new approach to conservation based on three pillars, namely ecology, cooperation, and cultural systems.
Douglas Sheil reviews the book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper.
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.
The author explores the relationship between humans and tigers in the Sino-India border and their opposition to plans to institute a wildlife sanctuary in the region.
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.