Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Matthew S. Henry is interviewed on his recent book, Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition.
Reinaldo Funes Monzote traces the history of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History, also known as SOLCHA.
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia brings together case studies from across the globe to reveal underlying cultural ontologies and call for more integration between the work of scholars and practitioners.
This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.
Two broad themes taken up in the literature will be the focus of this essay: how far colonialism was an ecological watershed, and how producers responded to new pressures. The third issue is of what we can or should learn (or unlearn) from the colonial experience.
Excerpt from Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.
This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter covers regional forestry issues and initiatives, the Redwood Summer event to bring attention to the destruction of the redwoods, the environmental consequences of the Gulf War, and a plan for a “conservation power plant” in Sacramento.
In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Joe Volk discusses the U.S. bombing attacks against Iraq; Bob Whitney tells the story of wilderness and over-dependence on oil and gas in Alaska; and David Giesen urges readers to recycle.
