In episode 47 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, author Ryan O’Connor discusses the ENGO Pollution Probe and the early years of environmental activism in Canada with Sean Kheraj.

This paper extends the argument in H.L.A. Hart’s “Are there any natural rights?” to argue that there is an environmental moral right against pollution.

While some have argued that, in democratic societies, people simply have a right to a participatory role, others base arguments for public participation on the idea that lay people may have access to knowledge which is unknown to officially sanctioned experts. This paper reports on a novel empirical approach called “participatory modelling” to analyse and capture such “lay” understandings.

In this short video, Jan Oosthoek presents the field of environmental history.