Finland first mad the switch from indigenous energy sources—fuel wood, wood refuse, and hydropower—to imported fossil fuels in the 1960s, during a hightened phase of industrialization. This article is an analysis of developments leading up to this change.
Regina Horta Duarte uses the unannounced leveling of 350 Ficus benjamina along the principal avenue of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November 1963 as the starting point for discussing the relationship between nature and society in Latin American urban environments.
Examines Monteverde’s conservation and protected-area history and current situation through insights gained from first person interviews conducted with 40 area residents and a study of relevant secondary sources.
Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.
The authors highlight the role played by capitalism in the intensification of pearls and nacre harvesting that brought the resource to speedy exhaustion.
For one month, we are able to follow an assistant forester on his daily rounds about the province of Capiz on Panay Island, as the forest was transformed from a resource and a refuge into an arena where state management practices and indigenous customary rights competed alongside those who saw trees as nothing more than a commercial enterprise.
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
A review of a Russian language volume published by the Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and with a forward by the then director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre Francesco Bandarin. The book covers approaches to cultural landscapes, as well as to their conservation and management.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
The article analyzes the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin.
