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“Sustainability, Systems and Meaning”
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
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"Ethical Motives and Charitable Contributions in Contingent Valuation: Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and Economics"
Clive L. Spash presents a critical review of some recent research by social psychologists in the US attempting to explain stated behaviour in contingent valuation.
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"Sustainability and the 'Struggle for Existence': The Critical Role of Metaphor in Society's Metabolism"
Tim Jackson examines the influence of the Darwinian metaphor “the struggle for existence” on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development.
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New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean
This collection brings together leading scholars on the environments of Latin America and the Caribbean to give us new and alternative narratives of the postcolonial history of the continent.
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Nuevas historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe
Esta colección reúne a algunos de los académicos más destacados en el estudio de las historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe para proponer nuevas perspectivas sobre el desarrollo poscolonial del continente. Estos ensayos narran historias variadas de interacciones complejas entre grupos sociales, estados y sus ambientes, y proveen nuevos ángulos para enriquecer las interpretaciones más conocidas.
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"The Commons, Game Theory, and Aspects of Human Nature that May Allow Conservation of Global Resources"
In his article, Walter K. Dodds tries to answer the question of whether we can control humanity’s hitherto endless appetite for resources before we irreparably harm the global ecosystem and cause the extinction of even more species.
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Bag It
Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world.
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"Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability"
Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
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"Natura economica in Environmental Valuation"
In this paper Katerina Soma introduces her concept of Natura economica.
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Singer, Peter, "Ethics and Climate Change: A Commentary on MacCracken, Toman and Gardiner"
Peter Singer argues that on any plausible principle, industrialised nations should be doing much more to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions than the Kyoto Protocol requires.