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International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century

Kaiser, Wolfram, and Jan-Henrik Meyer, eds.

International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.

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Die Zeit des Waldes [The forest over time]

Meister, Georg, and Monika Offenberger

Through a collection of 445 photographs taken from precisely the same places at intervals of months, years and decades,Die Zeit des Waldes [The forest over time] offers a stop-action look at the diversity of transformations within Germany’s forests.

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"Reframing the Land Grab Debate: The Need to Broaden and Deepen the Agenda"

Zoomers, Annelies, and Guus van Westen

This article discusses the need to broaden the debate about land rush by including a few key issues that have been neglected. Control over land is increasingly dictated by global actors and processes, leading to a patchwork of locally disembedded land holdings, not conducive for inclusive and sustainable development at the local level.

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