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"Admiring the High Mountains: The Aesthetics of Environment"
John Haldane discusses the need to consider issues relating to the aesthetics of the environment, using a little known theory of Aquinas.
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Todd, Helen, and Christos Zografos, "Justice for the Environment: Developing a Set of Indicators of Environmental Justice for Scotland"
This paper explores the context of environmental justice (EJ) in Scotland, and presents a case study whereby the main attributes for an indicator of EJ were identified, encompassing procedural and distributive aspects of justice.
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Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
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Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus: Eine Umweltgeschichte der DDR
Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus challenges common conceptions that portray the environmental history of East Germany as one of decline, highlighting the existence of advocates of environmental measures within the socialist party.
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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
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"Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene"
In this commentary, Stefan Helmreich considers how Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, has recently been leveraged into commentaries upon the Anthropocene, and how the image has been adapted to speak to the contemporary human-generated global oceanic crisis.
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"Outside Inside"
In this selection of poems, Adam Dickinson focuses on the “outside” that is the “inside,” thereby drawing attention to the coextensive and intra-active nature of the body with its environment and the consequent implications for linking the human to the nonhuman and the personal to the global in environmental ethics.
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Williams, Christopher, "Environmental Victims: Arguing the Costs"
Christopher Williams discusses the personal, social and cash costs of environmental victimization, using psycho-social literature and brief case studies of intellectual disability, road transport, and cross-border pollution.
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Dirty Business
Dirty Business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and looks at promising developments in renewable energy.