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Green City Promises and "Just Sustainabilities"
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
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Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
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Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
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Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History
Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
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The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
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Searching for Gigi: Captivity, Culture, and the Pacific Coast’s Embrace of Gray Whales
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
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The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
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Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters
How can we best influence and enact a shift beyond “doom and gloom” when we talk about the environment? The letters in this Perspectives volume are responses to this dilemma. Through an exploration of new environmental narratives, this volume aims to stimulate readers to emotionally reflect on how we can embrace hope and resilience in our stories about the environment.