The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A biography of the Chicago River.
A biography of the Chicago River.
This book offers a new view of the Okefenokee, its inhabitants, and its rich and telling record of thwarted ambitions, unintended consequences, and unresolved questions.
Shrader-Frechette and McCoy use examples related to preservation versus development, hunting versus animal rights, and controversies over pest control, to show that, because ecology is conceptually and theoretically underdetermined, environmental values often influence the practice of ecological science.
This film depicts the lives of ordinary people around the world as they become increasingly impacted by climate change.
In 1992, a 12-year-old girl named Severn addressed the UN about climate change. Now grown up and expecting a child, she explains how much must still be done.
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
In this 1995 annual report, the Fund for Wild Nature focuses on current anti-environmental politics and the skirting of environmental laws. The purpose of the fund, its funding guidelines, areas of support, and grant projects are laid out. Their intent is to foster connections among diverse groups with the underlying philosophy of Deep Ecology.
Juliet Kariuki, Regina Birner, and Susan Chomba offer an alternative conceptualization to mainstream neoclassical understandings of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), examining roles of formal and informal institutions in influencing equitable outcomes in two Kenyan cases.
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Looking at cases of Indigenous land and sea management in Australia, Austin et al. suggest four ways Indigenous groups and institutional investors can work together to establish meaningful criteria for ensuring effective conservation outcomes.