An account of the destruction in Nuremberg by major flooding along the Pegnitz River.
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A curious and memorable incident with mice around the village Brochdorp near Hannover in 1675.
The Bhopal chemical disaster on 3 December 1984 was the most tragic chemical disaster in history. Over 500,000 people were exposed to the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaking from the tanks at Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) pesticide plant, many of whom died instantly or of the consequences. People living in the Bhopal area still suffer from toxic water and ground contamination today ; there is a very high number of aborts and disabled children. The company responsible for the incident never took full responsibility.
In 1948 the Giant Mine became a major producer of gold and eventually arsenic trioxide, presenting major pollution problems for local First Nations and a long term legacy issue as 237,000 tons of arsenic remains buried in underground chambers.
In this article, Elisa Aaltola and Markku Oksanen examine the case of springtime bird hunting in Aland from a moral point of view.
Natural scientific paper from 1753 with an illustration of a full-grown crocodile and a hatching baby as well as a lizard, reportedly the crocodile’s main food.
In this article, Jozef Keulartz, Henny van der Windt, and Jacques Swart examine the role of concepts of nature as communicative devices in public debates and political decision-making.
In this paper, Maria Akerman focusses on the power/knowledge implications of the use of the concept, and I follow the career of the concept of natural capital in ecological economic publications between the years 1988 and 2000.
In his paper, Bruce Morito argues that “intrinsic value” is a concept born in the Western intellectual tradition for purposes of insulating and isolating those to whom intrinsic value can be attributed from one another and their environmental context.
Drawing upon two case studies of biodiversity initiatives in Canada, this paper looks at the role that constructivist conceptions of education play in the integration of alternative knowledge systems in environmental decision-making.