Jennifer Clapp examines the nature of international trade in toxic waste and the roles of multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Waste transfer has become a routine practice for firms in industrialized countries and poor countries accept these imports but struggle to manage the materials safely. She argues that governments have failed to recognize the voices of protest.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to the present day. He reveals the challenges faced when the system was exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling.
A brief examination of how Rugendas’s artwork contributes to an understanding of the network of human and nonhuman animals in nineteenth-century Brazilian society.
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
This short film combines remote sensing, qualitative interviews, desk research, and illustrations to show the complexities and controversies surrounding mangrove reforestation in Senegal and The Gambia.
Digital tools reveal a geographic logic to the violence of Pontiac’s War.
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
By reporting on their own and others’ experiences composting with dung earthworms, Sebastian Abrahamsson and Filippo Bertoni argue for a shift in the notion of “conviviality.”
In this special section on affective ecologies, Julia Hobson Haggerty, Elizabeth Lynne Rink, Robert McAnally, and Elizabeth Bird study the restoration of bison/buffalo by the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes to their reservation in Montana in the United States. They argue that ecological restoration can promote and facilitate emergent and dynamic processes of reconnection at the scale of individuals, across species and within communities.
In episode 48 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Merle Massie about her book Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan.