EHL VideoDictionary: The Brundtland Report
Iris Borowy on the Brundtland Report. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
global policy
"Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?"
Based on 25 interviews with Australian environmental leaders, the authors assess the value and benefit of the World Heritage Convention and the UNDRIP in relation to Indigenous communities and cosmopolitanism.
Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History
Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism warns the reader about the possibility that we have already entered a catastrophic time, determined by the apparently uncontrollable impact of anthropogenic activities and the incapability of governments and authorities to respond effectively.
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
In Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, Joanna Zylinska outlies an ethical framework that could help humans assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe across different scales. Her goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink “life” and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist’s method; it also includes a photographic project by the author.
Plastic China
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
Branding the Green City
Barthold analyzes the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group to illustrate how city networks are powerful actors in the global dissemination of eco-modernization strategies aimed at decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
Yale Environment 360
Published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. It features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news.
Spash, Clive L., "Editorial: Changing Climates, Changing Values, Changing Editors: 'All Change'"
In this editorial, Clive L. Spash discusses current economic and political motives as well as values and beliefs surrounding environmental issues.
The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour stresses the urgency of the issues plaguing our planet, and the current generation’s pivotal role in tackling them. It features several leaders and experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.