Perspectives Article
Beyond Corporate Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Corporate social and environmental responsibility could help drive the cultural shift needed to tackle climate change issues.
Show search results for
Perspectives Article
Imagining Geological Agency: Storytelling in the Anthropocene
Weik von Mossner looks at how we currently tell stories about global environmental change and human agency in the Anthropocene, the limitations of such narratives, and how consumers of these narratives are affected by them.
Perspectives Article
The Crisis of Environmental Narrative in the Anthropocene
DeB. Richter addresses the problem with declensionist narratives of the environment, proposing the Georgic narrative as a valuable alternative.
Perspectives Article
Whose Anthropocene? A Response
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
"Blaming It on the Weather: The Role of “Inclement” Rainfall in Society-Nature Relations in Liberal Costa Rica (1860-1940)"
This article seeks to shed light on some of the many possible interactions between changes in rainfall regime, one of the climatic factors with the greatest bearing on the history of human society, and the economic and socio-environmental dynamics of Costa Rica.
Multimedia | journal article
"Responses to Air Pollution Based on Historical and Current Policies in the EU and ASEAN"
The authors seek to ascertain if ASEAN can respond to regional human-induced environmental problems given existing problems of national sovereignty and the interest-based character of ASEAN-type associations, since ASEAN’s goal, in contrast to that of the EU, has been regional cooperation rather than regional integration. The aim is to highlight the status of the respective policy frameworks and exemplify areas in which the regions can learn from one another in the field of air pollution, given its global relevance for climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Desert and the Garden: Climate as Attractor and Obstacle in the Settlement History of the Western United States"
This article examines climate and perceptions of climate as factors in the migration and settlement history of the western United States. It focuses on two regions of great interest in the nineteenth century: The so-called Great American Desert in the western Great Plains and the Mexican state of Alta California, which after 1848 became the US state of California.
Multimedia | journal article
"Migration as a Failure to Adapt? How Andean People Cope with Environmental Restrictions and Climate Variability"
This article analyzes how people in the Bolivian Andes cope with environmental stress. Specifically, it examines the role environmental migration - a strategic mechanism to build up financial, productive, and social capital - plays in how people cope with climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
"Environmental Change, Control and Management in Africa"
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
Multimedia | journal article
"Climatic Changes in the Carpathian Basin during the Middle Ages. The State of Research"
The aim of the paper is to present a summary of the current scholarship on the climate of the Carpathian Basin in the Middle Ages by drawing upon research from the natural sciences, archaeology and history.