Multimedia | film profile
The High Cost of Cheap Gas
This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.
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Multimedia | film profile
Banking Nature
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
Multimedia | film profile
Greenpeace, The Story
This film recounts the formation and rise of Greenpeace as one of the world’s most prominent environmentalist organizations.
Multimedia | journal
Live Wild or Die! no. 6
Live Wild or Die! no. 6 includes discussions of civil disobedience and demonstration tactics, rage against television, and an explanation of the negative environmental and health consequences of tampon use. In an introductory editorial, the editors clarify their non-violent intent.
Arcadia
Wildlife Conservation Causes Deforestation in Colonial Namibia
In this Arcadia article, environmental historian Emmanuel Kreike explores the relationship between conservation and deforestation in twentieth-century Namibia.
Arcadia
Fishing for Empire: Settlement and Maritime Conflict in the Russian Far East
Imperial tensions in the Russian Far East led Russian officials to create a fishing fleet ex nihilo as a means to ousting foreign (primarily Chinese and Japanese) fishermen from strategically valuable waters.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis on Care for our Common Home
In his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ Pope Francis invokes all humans, believers and non-believers alike, to work together to save the earth from environmental degradation and create a fair and sustainable future for all.
Multimedia | book, full-text
UN World Commission on Environment and Development, ed., Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future
In 1987 the UN’s World Commission for Environment and Development publishes the report “Our Common Future,” also known as the “Brundtland Report.”
Multimedia | book, full-text
IUCN, ed., World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development
The seminal “World Conservation Strategy” of 1980 argues for the protection of essential ecological processes and habitats, the preservation of genetic diversity, and the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.
Multimedia | book profile
Krebs, Angelika, Ethics of Nature: A Map
Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?