Show search results for
Multimedia | film profile

Sprawling from Grace

This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.

See details
Multimedia | journal article

"Editorial Note: 'Pasts and Futures of Water'"

Juuti, Petri S., Tapio S. Katko, and Eija M. Vinnari

This editorial note introduces the four major conference themes of the 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water’ in June 2007: (i) water, health and sanitation; (ii) water, food and economy; (iii) water and the city; and (iv) water governance and policy.

See details
Multimedia | book profile

International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century

Kaiser, Wolfram, and Jan-Henrik Meyer, eds.

International Organizations and Environmental Protection comprehensively explores the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.

See details
Multimedia | podcast

Crosscurrents episode 5: Ashlee Cunsolo and Sean Kheraj

Sandlos, John

The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.

See details
Multimedia | journal article

"Creating Landscapes of Coexistence: Do Conservation Interventions Promote Tolerance of Lions in Human-dominated Landscapes?"

Western, Guy, David W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, and Amy J. Dickman

This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.

See details
Exhibition chapter

Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring

In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.

See details
Multimedia | film profile

Bay of All Saints

This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.

See details