"From Myths to Rules: The Evolution of Local Management in the Amazonian Floodplain"
This paper focuses on historical analysis of the local management of the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain.
This paper focuses on historical analysis of the local management of the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain.
The paper reviews the changes that have taken place in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen with regard to the hima—a reserved pasture, where trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest on a temporary or permanent basis.
Ecocritic Anne Milne, Carson Fellow from January 2010 to July 2011, talks about her research project concerning British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets.
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
Jared Diamond investigates why cultures prosper or decline.
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.