"'Getting Rich Is Glorious': Environmental Values in the People's Republic of China"
Paul G. Harris analyzes the reasons for pollution and overuse of resources in China which have profound implications for the Chinese people and the world.
Paul G. Harris analyzes the reasons for pollution and overuse of resources in China which have profound implications for the Chinese people and the world.
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
In ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky visits four rare inhabited regions of the world that are antipodal to other landmasses and creates unexpected images that turn our view of the world upside-down.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.