This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.
This study seeks to construct a theory of geological heritage and the redemptive or recuperative power of material remains of the deep past, concentrating on three landscapes.
The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value.
Under Tsar Nicholas II, Barguzinsky Zapovednik becomes Russia’s first nature reserve.
Princess Augusta and Lord Bute establish the first botanic garden at Kew.
The first nature reserve in Java, Indonesia, is established on the Krakatau volcanic island.
