Multimedia | journal article
"The Origins and Purpose of Eco-Innovation"
The article aims to provide a historical perspective on the concept of eco-innovation, its different meanings and its position in the modern debate around sustainability.
Show search results for
Multimedia | journal article
"World Water Day 2012. 'Water and Food Security: The World is Thirsty Because We are Hungry'"
The article reflects on how to feed a growing world population in a context of natural resource scarcity and considers the 2012 World Water Day as a means to open an international debate in order to identify strategic choices capable of combining, globally and locally, the objective of food security with that of water resource protection.
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
"The Environmental Impacts of Japan’s Occupation of West Malaysia (1942-45) and its Socio-Economic Implications"
The article examines how the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 and 1945 highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Nature Conservation Movement in Post-War Japan"
This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.
Multimedia | journal article
"Science and Land Use: The Kosciusko Primitive Area Dispute of 1958-65"
This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.
Multimedia | journal article
"Environmental Non-Government Organisations in China since the 1970s"
Fei Sheng traces the development of environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) in China, and describes the challenges they face in the political and cultural spheres.
Multimedia | journal article
Major, William, "Other Kinds of Violence: Wendell Berry, Industrialism, and Agrarian Pacifism"
William Major examines the need to understand pacifism and environmentalism as essentially consonant philosophies and practices.
Multimedia | journal article
"On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature"
Eileen Crist critiques the recent proposal to name our current geological epoch “the Anthropocene.”
Multimedia | journal article
"Multiple Temporalities and the Nonhuman Other"
By theorizing the temporalities of political-economic transformations as embodied in key conservationist and educational institutions, Erin Fitz-Henry argues that we can deepen our understanding of “worlds-otherwise” and work toward clarifying the institutional conditions that mitigate their flourishing.