"The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success"
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.
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.
This film shows how farming, state, and business and finance interrelate, such that various forms of malnutrition continue to pose a risk that is often life threatening, even in times of overproduction.
Using Hui county as a case study, this paper reconstructs the history of forestry and the changing patterns of forest tenure rights in the northwestern province of Gansu in 1949–1998.
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.
This film criticizes the socioeconomic system of the Washington Consensus as being insufficient for overcoming global poverty, and argues that it is based on centuries of exploitation.
This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.
This film follows the inhabitants of an ancient Carpathian village as they resist its destruction by a Romanian-Canadian corporation, which plans to turn it into Europe’s largest mine for gold and silver.
This film investigates the crises facing China’s environment from the perspectives of four activists.
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.