health

Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.

Bryan Norton discusses limitations to James Nelson’s concept of ecosystem health as having both descriptive and normative content.

This film shows how the oil and gas industries, rich with political connections, obtained a position of almost untouchable power and how at-risk communities have united to fight back.

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 film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.

This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.

This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.