Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
The Brauns started farming organically in 1984. This documentary film explores the day-to-day operation of their farm in Bavaria. Among other things, it shows how vital earthworms are for soil fertility.
Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.
“Cooperating with nature, instead of fighting nature. To observe nature and ascertain which plants support one another.” These are key concepts for organic farmer Sepp Holzer and the founding principles of permaculture.
A review of economist Óscar Carpintero’s history of resource use in the Spanish economy.
Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.
This study explores the hypothesis that a serious reduction in “landscape efficiency,” typified by significant landscape degradation, underlies the increase observed in external inputs and the corresponding loss of energy efficiency that the agrarian system has undergone over the last 150 years.
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
The book reviewed deals with an animal, which, along with the bear, has been at the core of environmental conflicts in France since its reappearance around 1992.