Choropampa, El Precio del Oro [Choropampa, The Price of Gold]
A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.
A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930–1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu.
The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
This film examines the situation of the Tuareg people, who live across borders and at risk from poverty, environmental disasters, and militant groups.
Crystal A. Crown and Kalli F. Doubleday explore media representation of Human-Leopard Interactions (HLI) in India, focusing on detecting agenda-setting and framing in articles, and whether these differ with the level of association with HLI. They conclude that the largely negative depiction, and differences in representation between geographic locations, could hinder mitigation strategies and policy by presenting stakeholders with incomplete information.
McKenzie F. Johnson, Krithi K. Karanth, and Erika Weinthal evaluate compensation as a mitigation policy for human-wildlife conflict around four protected areas in Rajasthan (Jaisamand, Sitamata, Phulwari, and Kumbhalgarh), finding efforts insensitive to local livelihoods.
Aimee L. Schmidt and Douglas A. Clark examine the response of local people and agencies to a polar bear-inflicted human injury in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, showing how human-bear conflict is often widely publicized and controversial, and how it shapes public expectations around bear management.