The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. The 1980 discovery and subsequent open-pit mining of a large diamond deposit severely transformed the landscape and is threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the upper Zolotitsa region.
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The St. Petersburg flood of 1824, in which the level of the river Neva rose to the 4 meter 20 centimeter mark, is the greatest in the history of the city. The city did not recover from the destructive effects of the flood until the mid-1830s.
The first cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg, then capital of the Russian Empire, brought to light the city’s enormous sanitary problems. During the course of the epidemic 12,540 people sickened and 6,449 died.
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
James Sterba argues that laying out the most morally defensible versions of an anthropological environmental ethics and nonanthropocentric ethics would lead us to accept the same principles of environmental justice.
Jonathan Aldred outlines the need for a fundamental redefinition of existence value in environmental economists.
Russell Keat presents a critical evaluation of Mark Sagoff’s critique of economistic approaches to environmental decision-making in The Economy of the Earth.
R.H. Gray discusses corporate reporting for sustainable development and the need for a major regulatory initiative.
Guy Claxton discusses the role of self-transformation methodologies, associated with spiritual traditions such as Buddhism, towards changing dysfunctional habits of consumption.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.