This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
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This article analyzes how World War II impacted both the marine and the terrestrial environment of the North Atlantic, triggered major political and economic decisions with profound cultural implications, and eventually induced a change in ocean management.
During the fall of the Soviet Union, a depleted Cuba implements various measures—including sustainable and environmentally sound practices—to avoid devastation.
The Philippine Mining Act, a pro-mining piece of legislation providing heavy incentives to foreign companies, is signed into law on 3 March 1995. It stirs extensive court battles between the government and anti-mining indigenous people.
International conservationists and researchers launch a three-year action plan to address the increasing endangerment of Madagascar’s endemic lemur population.
The Nazi regime embraces the construction of the Autobahn highway system. Although some of the initiatives appear to consider the environment, aesthetics are the primary motive—not conservation.
The pollution of the Cuyahoga River was so severe that over the years the toxic waste caught fire numerous times. One specific fire in 1969 was reported upon by the Time Magazine and played a strong part in the movement towards cleansing the waterways nationwide.
American Bison flourished on the Great Plains of the United States before westward expansion and the practice of widespread hunting challenged the survival of the animal. Policies in the early 20th century barely saved the wild bison populations.
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota is a sculpture of the heads of four prominent United States presidents and a protected landscape by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Since June 1906 the Antiquities Act gives the United States federal government the power to protect and preserve areas of public land or resources that hold cultural or historic value.