Pursuing Environmental History on India’s Himalayas: Challenges and Rewards
A reflection on the challenges of doing environmental history research in the diverse region of the Himalayas.
policies
The Great Fire of 1910
A massive wildfire, commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, ravished 3 million acres of woods and burned down everything in its path. In response to the devastation the US Forest Service changed their fire management strategies and policies.
Regions:
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
CERCLA gives the EPA the authority to intervene in order to clean up sites that are or could be potentially hazardous to the environment or public.
Regions:
"Attributing 'Priority' to Habitats"
Chris Miller discusses the ecocentric approach on habitats in Britain.
"Ideology, Bureaucracy and Aesthetics: Landscape Change and Land Reform in Northwest Scotland"
By investigating landscape change and land reform in Northwest Scotland, this study illustrates how the multifaceted concept of landscape mediates cultural, social and political issues, and is continually evolving in response to aesthetic, ideological and institutional agencies.
Anthropocenic Poetics: Ethics and Aesthetics in a New Geological Age
The essay suggests that what is absent from the scientific discourse on the Anthropocene is a postcolonial perspective that points out the fact that we are not talking about generalizable social, economic, and cultural structures and belief systems, but that instead we are describing very specific political, economic, and discursive regimes of power.
"Conceptions of Value in Environmental Decision-Making"
In their article, John O’Neill and Clive L. Splash analyse how local processes of envrionmental decision-making can enter into good policy-making processes.
"The Role of NGOs in Environmental Policy Failures in a Developing Country: The Mismanagement of Jamaica's Coral Reefs"
In this paper, Michael Haley and Anthony Clayton discuss the role of NGOs in environmental policy failures in Jamaica.
"Environment and Participation in a Context of Political Modernisation"
This article discusses the relation between environment and participation in the context of different stages of political modernisation.
"From Fieldwork to Mutual Learning: Working with PRATEC"
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.