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Dschungelburger—Hackfleischordnung International [Jungleburgers]
Jungleburgers is a documentary about the rainforest in Costa Rica being destroyed for the sake of low-cost beef for the US hamburger market.
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Saubere Ernte—Mavuno Safi [Clean Crop—Cotton as Fate]
The film tells the story of two cotton farming villages in East Africa: one organic, one heavily industrialized.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Mancuso, Stefano, "The Roots of Plant Intelligence"
Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence for plant intelligence.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Finley, Ron, "A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA"
Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.
Multimedia | book profile
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
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Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
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Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
Multimedia | journal article
"Reflexive Water Management in Arid Regions: The Case of Iran"
This article sketches the contours of the emerging paradigm: a complementary system of traditional and modern methods of water provision, a participatory water resources management and a ‘post-mechanistic’ ethico-religious framework.
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"Hunting as a Moral Good"
This article argues that hunting is not a sport, but a neo-traditional cultural trophic practice consistent with ecological ethics, including a meliorist concern for animal rights or welfare.
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"A Critical Assessment of Public Consultations on GMOs in the European Union"
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.