society

This film investigates the crises facing China’s environment from the perspectives of four activists.

This film reports on the eviction of villages near Mubende by the Ugandan army to clear land for a coffee plantation.

A couple competes to live with zero waste for a whole year, with comedic results.

This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.

This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.

The film tells the story of the town Most in Northern Bohemia, destroyed in the quest for coal.

This film examines how Mexico City—home to 22 million people—is trying to become water sustainable.

The focus of this paper is on identifying some of the key elements of water policy and governance presented at the 5th IWHA Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water.’ The paper also explores the challenges and opportunities facing the international community for living up to the principles of democratic water governance in a context of increasing global uncertainty.

This editorial note introduces the four major conference themes of the 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water’ in June 2007: (i) water, health and sanitation; (ii) water, food and economy; (iii) water and the city; and (iv) water governance and policy.

This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.