Kahlschlag: Der Kampf um Brasiliens letzte Wälder [Clearcutting: The Fight for Brazil's Last Forests]
This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.
This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.
This film follows an Argentinian town which must struggle to decide whether to allow a gold mine that could reduce poverty but also uses toxic mining methods.
This film investigates the crises facing China’s environment from the perspectives of four activists.
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
The central theme of this article is the mirage of growth that spread in Latin American countries under the influence of the United States, during and after World War II. This historical period had significant material consequences on world landscapes, as well as a symbolic impact through the rise of the ideal of Big Science, which aggravated the material environmental impacts.
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
In the United States the 1985 Farm Bill lead to the creation of a program called the Conservation Reserve Program. It allows farmers to enter into a rental contract in which they are paid for idling and reverting agricultural land to natural ecosystems for conservation purposes.
When Gustavo Petro, then mayor of Bogotá, attempted to introduce a new zero garbage program that would allow the city’s informal recyclers to receive proper wages, he found himself in the middle of a hygienic crisis that was used by his political opponents to try to remove him from office. Garbage had become a battlefield upon which the struggle against corruption for social reform and justice was carried out.