Data Refuge is a community-driven, collaborative project to preserve public climate and environmental data. When we document the many ways diverse communities use data, we can also advocate for future data.
In episode 60 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, two NiCHE editors—Tina Adcock from Simon Fraser University and Claire Campbell from Bucknell University—discuss some new articles and book chapters in Canadian environmental history with Sean Kheraj.
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
Through ethnographic fieldwork in southern Lebanon, Vasiliki Touhouliotis examines the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war’s environmental impact.
This article addresses philosophies of becoming by reconsidering Thomas Nagel’s negative view on heterogeneity in his 1974 essay as a form of self-understanding in the context of a shared and heterogeneous world.
