"What is Global Environmental History?"
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
Paul M. Wood discusses biodiversity as the source of biological resources.
Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.