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John Anthony Allan’s “Virtual Water”: Natural Resources Management in the Wake of Neoliberalism
Virtual water is heralded as the solution to freshwater scarcity and overconsumption, but it oversimplifies global water flows.
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Review of Nature of Spectacle by Jim Igoe
Andrés León Araya reviews Jim Igoe’s The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conservation Capitalism.
Perspectives Article
Branding the Green City
Barthold analyzes the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group to illustrate how city networks are powerful actors in the global dissemination of eco-modernization strategies aimed at decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
Perspectives Article
Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
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"Investigating Consistency of a Pro-market Perspective amongst Conservationists"
The authors analyze perspectives of conservation professionals on the neoliberalization of ecosystem services, through a survey conducted with a group of conservationists based in Cambridge, England.
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Biodiversity Offsetting and the Contradictions of the Capitalist Production of Nature
Biodiversity offsetting and the contradictions of the capitalist production of nature in England.
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Was Capitalism the Crisis? Mount Lebanon’s World War I Famine
Mount Lebanon’s distinctive environmental history accounts for its susceptibility to famine.
Perspectives Article
Remembering Nature in Climate Change: Re-thinking Climate Science and Climate Communication through Critical Theory
Born uses Critical Theory to explore the role of science in climate communication.
Exhibition chapter
Structures of Inequality | Toxic Relationships
Chapter 3 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Gregg Mitman, author of Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Gregg Mitman is interviewed on his book, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.