Multimedia | film profile
Groundswell Rising
This film shows how the oil and gas industries, rich with political connections, obtained a position of almost untouchable power and how at-risk communities have united to fight back.
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Multimedia | film profile
Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
Arcadia
An Endless Sediment Story: The First Five Decades of the Canal de Marseille
The Canal de Marseille has allowed an improvement in the water supply in the city of Marseille, but also induced environmental issues in its first decades due to strong suspended sediment fluxes.
Perspectives Article
The “Urban Mine” in Accra, Ghana
Urban mining—reclaiming valuable metals from discarded electronic devices—has become an important economic activity in the informal sector in places such as Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, Ghana. This article examines the material flows linking Ghana with the rest of the world, the politics of waste recycling, and the hazards faced by those processing e-waste.
Perspectives Article
The Last Sink: The Human Body as the Ultimate Radioactive Storage Site
For the residents of Ozersk, a small town that was the home to Russia’s first plutonium plant, the health effects of radioactivity have been too-little acknowledged by governments that prefer to focus instead on measuring “exposures” and isotope measurements in the surrounding environment.
Multimedia | book profile
Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Value of Health in the Writings of H.D. Thoreau"
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.
Multimedia | journal article
“Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989”
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
Multimedia | journal article
"Agriculture, Health, Environment: Interview with Piero Bevilacqua," interview by Idamaria Fusco
The interview with Piero Bevilacqua touches on a broad range of subjects: From the use of pesticides to the “Green Revolution”; from GMOs to biodynamic and biological agriculture, and the respect of biodiversity; from modern farming’s wasteful use of water to Common Agricultural Policy with its nonsustainable exploitation of farmland.