Robin, Libby, "Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective"
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
Sacred groves in the ancient Mediterranean are compared with surviving groves of South India, particularly Uttara Kannada, to evaluate the roles of these refugia in maintaining balance between human groups and the ecosystems of which they are part.
This paper argues that Marsh was not simply influenced by American versus European contrasts in environmental change, nor was his work based only on conservation ideas, being influenced also by the examples of acclimatisation movements within the British empire settlement colonies.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
The Finnish-Swedish explorer and scientist Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901) became in 1878—1879 the first European explorer to sail the Northeast Passage. He was also one of the pioneers of the Nordic conservation movement, proposing the creation of national parks and the protection of endangered species.
The Brauns started farming organically in 1984. This documentary film explores the day-to-day operation of their farm in Bavaria. Among other things, it shows how vital earthworms are for soil fertility.
Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.