degradation

The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.

Director Peter Mettler takes to the skies in order to probe the scale of the Alberta Tar Sands—one of the largest energy projects on earth—and its environmental impact.

While many of Marsh’s novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American—having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans.

This article looks at continuities and change around the issue of agricultural sustainability in colonial and post-colonial Kabale.

Director Bernhard Sallmann returns to Lusatia to complete his trilogy about the region by exploring its dreamscapes, orienting himself somewhere between the scars of an industrial past and signs that nature is beginning to reclaim the degraded environments that remain.

When World War Two broke out, Fiji’s colonial administration assumed emergency powers to marshal the civilian population to produce goods and services for the war effort, particularly the support of American and New Zealand military personnel based there during 1942–43…

Based on a case study of the Central Rainlands of Sudan, the paper challenges the assumptions and principles underlying the tragedy of the commons model and the property rights paradigm with regard to sustainability of resources owned in common.

This paper suggests an approach for using different types of data sources, and for bringing together understandings of ecosystem dynamics and of people’s interaction with the environment, and thereby achieving ‘closure’ in a highly contested terrain.