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"Environmental Policy With Integrity: A Lesson from the Discursive Dilemma"
This paper considers the particular case of environmental policy where we are faced with pressures not only from deliberators and stakeholders, but also in response to dynamic changes in the environment itself.
"Environmental Politics and Place Authenticity Protection"
The paper proposes to differently outline modernity, by adopting a heterogeneous geography standpoint and post-modern hybrid networks theory in order to overcome the problematic political consequences of the classic approach of environmental politics.
State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
"'Rather Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow!' Environmental Justice and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in 1970s Wyhl, West Germany"
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
"The Environmental Impacts of Japan’s Occupation of West Malaysia (1942-45) and its Socio-Economic Implications"
The article examines how the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 and 1945 highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism.
"Science and Land Use: The Kosciusko Primitive Area Dispute of 1958-65"
This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.
Banff Is … Hell? The Struggle of Being Canada’s First, Most Famous, and Most Visited National Park
Banff is the Canadian national park you have heard of.
International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.