In this editorial, Clive L. Spash discusses current economic and political motives as well as values and beliefs surrounding environmental issues.
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism.
This article considers the parallels between the community of Lady Selborne, a township near Pretoria, South Africa, and the neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro.
This article looks at romantic and critical narratives around protected areas, and highlights how Jane Carruthers’ writing refuses to embrace either.
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.
The Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA) is designed to broaden and deepen the knowledge, networking, and communication skills of postgraduate students, professionals, and activists who are concerned about human dimensions of environmental challenges.
Moral Ground presents a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet.
Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight as a water activist to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.”
Should Trees Have Standing? continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights.
