development

This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.

Comeback Cities provides a readable presentation of certain key aspects of the field of urban studies, such as the various waves of troubles that hit many American cities in the twentieth century and the broken windows theory.

Examines Monteverde’s conservation and protected-area history and current situation through insights gained from first person interviews conducted with 40 area residents and a study of relevant secondary sources.

An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.

Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.

Editors in chief Mauro Agnoletti and Gabriella Corona outline the journal’s objectives in its first issue.

Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.

In this paper, Pacheco illustrates the dynamics of frontier development in the Redenção area in southern Pará, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon.

Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).