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.
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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?
Perspectives
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Politics and Culture of Waste
Waste is never completely or permanently “out of sight.” Once discarded, it undergoes transformations, often reappearing elsewhere in new forms. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from different disciplines—from history and art history, urban geography, environmental studies, and anthropology—investigate the traces waste leaves behind in the course of its travels.
Perspectives Article
The “Flying Dutchmen”: Ships’ Tales of Toxic Waste in a Globalized World
As a space where terrestrial jurisdiction did not apply, the ocean has often served as a repository for unwanted things, whether people or objects. This article traces the journeys of several ships and their cargos of toxic waste in the 1970s and 1980s.