Multimedia | journal article
"Radiation Protection and Moral Theory"
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
Show search results for
Multimedia | journal article
"Ecological Community, the Sense of the World, and Senseless Extinction"
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
Multimedia | journal article
“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Perspectives Article
Sustainability at Dead-ends: The Future of Hope in Rural Japan
Self-sufficiency has become a dominant priority of rural sustainability in Japan. The paper examines a community mapping initiative that empowers regional residents to rediscover the character of their depleted surroundings.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Climates of Migration
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2004: Special Focus: The Consumer Society
The special edition of State of the World, The Consumer Society, examines how we consume, why we consume, and what impact our consumption choices have on the planet and our fellow human beings.
Multimedia | book profile
Stadt der Commonisten. Neue urbane Räume des Do it yourself. (The City of Commonists: New Urban Spaces of the Do-It-Yourself)
This book tells the stories of urban do-it-yourself activists contesting conventional conditions of production and consumption through urban gardening sites, open repair workshops, fab labs, and share-and-swap events.
Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security
In State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources.
Multimedia | podcast
State of the World 2006: Special Focus: China and India
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.