Wild Earth 2, no. 4
Wild Earth 2, no. 4 with essays on environmental devastation and the war in Lebanon, the Colorado River delta, reef protection, and zoos and the “psychology of extinction.”
Wild Earth 2, no. 4 with essays on environmental devastation and the war in Lebanon, the Colorado River delta, reef protection, and zoos and the “psychology of extinction.”
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.
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
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 follows a court case between Canadian mining companies and author Alain Deneault following his critique of industry practices.
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation” had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume, In the Name of the Great Work follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.