Who Are Green Cities Actually For?
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
Amanda Poole reviews Sara Wylie’s Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds.
Through a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted in villages around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in northern Congo, the authors assess local attitudes towards conservation and elephant conservation in particular.
Ferran Pons Raga reviews Naturalezas en conflicto [Natures in Conflict] by José A. Cortés Vázquez.
This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.
The authors provide an empirical study of the conservation strategy adopted in the northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines, and criticize the assumptions behind the main legalistic interventions.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
Megan Youdelis reviews the book In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer by Steven Davis.
Full text of Claire Lagier’s dissertation, “Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).”
This film follows a young Liberian who returns to his post-war country with film footage which has the potential to push radical land reforms for sustainable community development.