In this Oscar-nominated documentary, Werner Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, the hub of the US Antarctic Program, to film the life conditions of humans and animals in this extreme landscape.
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The paper “Evaluating the ‘Ethical Matrix’ as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool” by Matthew Cotton outlines the strengths and limitations of the matrix as well as a framework for the development of alternative tools to better satisfy the needs of ethical assessment in radioactive waste management decision-making processes.
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.
This paper considers the particular case of environmental policy where we are faced with pressures not only from deliberators and stakeholders, but also in response to dynamic changes in the environment itself.
The paper proposes to differently outline modernity, by adopting a heterogeneous geography standpoint and post-modern hybrid networks theory in order to overcome the problematic political consequences of the classic approach of environmental politics.
This paper demonstrates how a Political Economy of Wealth—an analytical framework inspired from Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of value—strengthens the analytical force of Socio-Ecological Economics in the context of the controversy over the value of nature.
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.