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The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.

This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.

In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, scientists, policy experts, and thought leaders attempt to restore the meaning to sustainability as more than just a marketing tool.

The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.

Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.

This paper offers a critical assessment of the green case for deliberative democracy, showing that deliberation is being asked to deliver more than it is able to.

The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).

Laura Westra discusses environmental holism in relation to the democratic rights of individuals and of nation states within the international community.

The author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment, Joachim Radkau, reviews this volume of the papers of the German green party, which covers the first term during which it was represented in the Bundestag.