sustainability

During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…

This medieval environmental history examines the tenth-century industrial and trade town of Wolin which grew rapidly on an island immediately off the northwestern coast of Poland.

The British Solomon Islands Protectorate government, in the 1910s, encouraged logging operations on Vanikolo in order to diversify the economy and extend government control in the easternmost islands…

The ‘received wisdom’ is that bushes result from overgrazing, displace the climax community, and lower carrying capacity. In contrast, this paper is informed by non-equilibrium ecological and range management science, as well as recent challenges to degradationist interpretations about environmental change in Africa.

This article proposes a strong role for environmental history in informing current policy and debate in the policy field of sustainability (or, sustainable development).

The issues discussed provide an interface between ‘green history’ and frameworks for sustainable development. An overview of groundwater exploitation is presented with case studies of low flows, the nitrate issue and salinisation of chalk aquifers.

Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.

Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.