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The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
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Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.
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Vandana Shiva: Von Saatgut und Saatgutmultis. [Seeds and Seed Multinationals]
The documentary contrasts the results of using genetically-modified crops purchased from multinational agrochemical corporations with the maintenance of community seedbanks and biodiversity.
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Der Agrar Rebell [The Agro Rebel—Permaculture in Salzburg Alps]
“Cooperating with nature, instead of fighting nature. To observe nature and ascertain which plants support one another.” These are key concepts for organic farmer Sepp Holzer and the founding principles of permaculture.
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"Waiting for a Fair Future . . . Talking about Environment, Well-Being, and Justice with Wolfgang Sachs"
Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.
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"Economic Ideology about the Environment: From Adam Smith to Bjørn Lomborg"
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
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"Degrowth: A Slogan for a New Ecological Democracy"
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
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"On Nature and Power: Interview with Joachim Radkau"
An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..