Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Technology's Epic Story”
Kevin Kelly presents his perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology, and religion.
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Multimedia | book profile
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution reveals how today’s global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
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.
Multimedia | journal article
"Value Theory in Ecological Economics: The Contribution of a Political Economy of Wealth"
This paper demonstrates how a Political Economy of Wealth—an analytical framework inspired from Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of value—strengthens the analytical force of Socio-Ecological Economics in the context of the controversy over the value of nature.
Multimedia | journal article
"Goodwill Toward Nature"
This article reflects on Aristotle’s conceptions of friendship and goodwill and if they can serve as a model for a virtuous relationship with nature.
Multimedia | journal article
"World Poverty, Animal Minds and the Ethics of Veterinary Expenditure"
In this paper the authors make an argument for limiting veterinary expenditure on companion animals. The argument combines two principles: The obligation to give and the self-consciousness requirement.
Multimedia | journal article
"Fossilized Memory: The German-Russian Energy Partnership and the Production of Energo-political Knowledge"
This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.
Multimedia | book profile
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia challenges the idea of indigenous knowledge and cultures as static,and explores multiple facets of ethnoecology and mobility in Amazonia and beyond.
Exhibition chapter
Contrasting Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira writes about different kinds of energy-regime shifts and their preconditions.
Exhibition chapter
Imagining Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira discusses the drivers of future transitions in the light of past ones.