The construction of new infrastructure to host the Olympic Games is immense and could alter local ecosystems forever, making it important for the International Olympic Committee to recognize and implement environmental sustainability policies.
The seminal “World Conservation Strategy” of 1980 argues for the protection of essential ecological processes and habitats, the preservation of genetic diversity, and the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.
This paper looks at the history of attempts to influence the conservation and management of the world’s forests through the creation of international organisations since the 1890s. The attempts are seen in the context of changes in the world political economy, changes to the forests themselves, and changing ideas about how forests should be conserved and managed.
This study historicises environmental issues at the Chinhoyi Caves that are of contemporaneous resonance with the ecological crisis faced by the modern world. It deals with important themes like water-resource management, indigenous knowledge and its efficacy in the preservation of nature, colonialism and its environmental implications, forest use and deforestation, dislocation and displacement of indigenous people, and the interaction of the local with the global.
The aim of this paper is to encourage conservation and prevent further deterioration around the traditional villages of Tlajomulco, Mexico by making more widely known the rich cultural landscape and the know-how of the inhabitants that has contributed to its conservation.
This film explores the social dimensions of the illegal rhino horn trade in South Africa.
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
The proposed O’Shaughnessy Dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park precipitated a national environmental debate from 1908 to 1913. In 1913 the congress permitted construction and it was completed in 1923.
This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.
