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Multimedia | film profile
Milking the Rhino
This film considers wildlife conservation in Africa from the perspective of those who live in close proximity to the animals.
Multimedia | film profile
The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour stresses the urgency of the issues plaguing our planet, and the current generation’s pivotal role in tackling them. It features several leaders and experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Multimedia | film profile
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
Perspectives Article
Politics in—but not of—the Anthropocene
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
Multimedia | journal article
"Migration as a Failure to Adapt? How Andean People Cope with Environmental Restrictions and Climate Variability"
This article analyzes how people in the Bolivian Andes cope with environmental stress. Specifically, it examines the role environmental migration - a strategic mechanism to build up financial, productive, and social capital - plays in how people cope with climate change.
Multimedia | journal article
"'Rather Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow!' Environmental Justice and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in 1970s Wyhl, West Germany"
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
Multimedia | journal article
“Dark is the World to Thee: A Historical Perspective on Environmental Forewarnings”
The aim of the paper is to understand our predecessors’ understanding of their environmental predicament and any contingent steps they may have taken, in order to put in context the contingencies of our own understanding.