This article looks at India’s colonial history and the effect that recent economic and political changes have had on the country’s relationship with wild animals.
This article looks at the discovery and storming of the Americas in relation to narratives of sustainability.
This study brings together research in a variety of disciplines to reconstruct the history of mining in Schwaz, Tirol.
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
Renee Binder and G.W. Burnett examine how Ngugi wa Thiong’o, East Africa’s most prominent writer, treats the landscape as a fundamental social phenomenon in two of his most important novels, A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood.
Michael Redclift analyzes “sustainable development” as a product of the Modernist tradition, arguing for a new vision of the world in which the authority of science and technology is questioned and more emphasis is placed on cultural diversity.
Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.
A small seaside village in Brazil has been found by tourists and is now coveted by real estate developers.
