Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
In episode 22 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj talks to Claire Campbell, the editor of A Century of Parks Canada, and contributing authors George Colpitts and Gwynn Langemann on Canada’s national parks history from coast to coast.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Marcus Vogt discusses climate change as an issue of justice. Sustainability, in Vogt’s view, needs to look to the humanities—to philosophy, theology, sociology, history, and cultural studies—for accompanying critical perspectives.
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Donald Worster—one of the founders and leading figures in the field of environmental history—examines how China and the United States have attempted to control water.
