The authors highlight the role played by capitalism in the intensification of pearls and nacre harvesting that brought the resource to speedy exhaustion.
An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
As a response to perceived lumber shortages, Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner sketched a comprehensive strategy for achieving forest sustainability which included political proposals, forestry instructions and moral appeals.
Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference “Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium,” held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000.
Joseph Szarka presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.
In five major sections, this edited collection investigates the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) in the United States, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them.
In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. Surprisingly, however, the CEC has received little scholarly attention, to date. This book is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.
