Perspectives Article
Pursuing Environmental History on India’s Himalayas: Challenges and Rewards
A reflection on the challenges of doing environmental history research in the diverse region of the Himalayas.
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The River Runs Black. The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
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State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.
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State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
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State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.
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Government response | Famines in India
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Famines in Late Nineteenth-Century India: Politics, Culture, and Environmental Justice”—written and curated by sociologist Naresh Chandra Sourabh and economic historian Timo Myllyntaus.
Perspectives Article
Food Sovereignty and Autonomous Local Systems
Short food chains not only create a sense of community and of “living together” by building trust and social bonds, they also generate jobs and strengthen local economies. Yet despite these social and economic benefits, local food systems are threatened by transnational corporations gaining monopoly control over different links of the food chain and the modernist development agenda that encourages jobs in sectors other than food production.
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Nuclear Nation
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
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Water Makes Money
This film investigates the increasing trend towards privatizing control of water resources, and the response of cities, organizations, municipalities, and communities.
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Das Ding am Deich [The Thing at the Dike]
This film examines the life of a German town some decades after a nuclear plant inspired nationwide resistance.