Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
Imperfect Balance offers a balance of accessible writing and scholarly approaches to understanding the Western Hemisphere’s incredibly diverse landscapes, the human forces that shaped them, and the impact of this interaction on sustained human settlement.
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.
A visual exploration of the settlement of Australia’s Mallee country by Europeans in the twentieth century.