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"Community and Life-Chances: Risk Movements in the United States and Germany"
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
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Abschalten—Apaga y Vámonos [Switch off]
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.
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"From the Inside Out"
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
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A Laboratory for the Implementation of "Wilderness" in Central Europe—The Bavarian Forest National Park
The Bavarian Forest National Park, situated in South-Eastern Germany along the boundary with the Czech Republic, was established as the country’s first national park in October 1970.
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"Resisting Development, Reinventing Modernity: Rural Electrification in the United States Before World War II"
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
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"Cows are Better than Condos, or How Economists Help Solve Environmental Problems"
This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.
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"The Misbegotten Child of Deep Ecology"
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.
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"Private Property Rights, Moral Extensionism and the Wise-Use Movement: A Rawlsian Analysis"
In this essay, Eric Reitan analyzes the claims of the “wise-use” movement, its implications for private property rights and the extent to which these rights should influence public policy decisions.
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Todd, Helen, and Christos Zografos, "Justice for the Environment: Developing a Set of Indicators of Environmental Justice for Scotland"
This paper explores the context of environmental justice (EJ) in Scotland, and presents a case study whereby the main attributes for an indicator of EJ were identified, encompassing procedural and distributive aspects of justice.
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Wissenburg, Marcel, "Global and Ecological Justice: Prioritising Conflicting Demands"
Marcel Wissenburg argues that ‘global and ecological justice’ represents an informal combination of four distinct and sometimes conflicting ideas: global justice, protection of the ecology, sustainability and sustainable growth.