Coordenadas para una democracia ambiental en Argentina
Full open-access volume Cordenadas para una democracia ambiental en Argentina (2025) by the Escazú Observatory.
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A Letter About the Letter to Prison: Russian Environmental Activism, Political Protest, and the Value of Participation
Anna Mazanik reflects on writing to imprisoned environmental activist Yevgeny Vitishko, seeking hope in local resistance amid the overwhelming global environmental crisis.
Interview with Joel Alden Schlosser, author of Herodotus in the Anthropocene
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Joel Alden Schlosser is interviewed on his recent book, Herodotus in the Anthropocene.
"Collaborative Governance of Protected Areas: Success Factors and Prospects for Hin Nam No National Protected Area, Central Laos"
The authors assess the governance of the Hin Nam No National Protected Area in central Laos to understand the possibilities of supporting fruitful collaborative governance of protected areas.
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
Alternative Futures brings together 35 essays on India’s future, written by a diverse set of authors: activists, researchers, media persons, those who have influenced policies, and those working at the grassroots. Divided into four sections—Ecological Futures, Political Futures, Economic Futures, and Socio-Cultural Futures—the book covers a wide range of issues including environmental governance, biodiversity, democracy and power, law, agriculture, pastoralism, industry, languages, learning and education, knowledge, health and sexuality among others.
Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
"National Park Declassification in Mexico: Between Propaganda, Legitimisation and Bargaining"
Clotilde Lebreton analyses the discursive, participative, and negotiation practices in the territorialized public action that occurred during the category change of the Nevado de Toluca Protected Area in Mexico from a high conservation status to a more flexible one.
"Rehearsing Inclusive Participation Through Fishery Stakeholder Workshops in the Philippines"
Deborah Cleland and Raissa Ocaya San Jose apply Iris Marion Young’s theory of communicative democracy framework to a case study of fisheries stakeholder workshops in the Philippines.
"Conflict to Coexistence: Human – Leopard Interactions in a Plantation Landscape in Anamalai Hills, India"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Swati Sidhu, Ganesh Raghunathan, Divya Mudappa, and TR Shankar Raman discuss human-leopard coexistence in the Anamalai Hills, India. They suggest a combination of measures to mitigate negative interactions and support continued human-leopard coexistence.
"Tourism Taxation, Politics and Territorialisation in Tanzania's Wildlife Management"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel Sulle and Holti Banka explore the impacts of taxes imposed on tourism activities occurring on communal lands and the emerging politics of resource and revenue sharing among Wildlife Management Area (WMA) member villages in Tanzania.