sustainability

Ecoartspace is a nonprofit platform providing opportunities for artists who address the human/nature relationship in the visual arts.

Book profile for The Limits to Growth.

ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.

This film considers wildlife conservation in Africa from the perspective of those who live in close proximity to the animals.

This film follows a young Liberian who returns to his post-war country with film footage which has the potential to push radical land reforms for sustainable community development.

Harry Barton examines a 1991 proposal to embark upon the largest mining project in Europe, on the remote island of Harris and Lewis in Scotland. He argues that different groups perceive their environments differently, and pleads for a wider recognition of this diversity, as well as expansions of concepts of development and sustainability.

This guest editorial takes stock of what was achieved since the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio, and speculates on the results of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

The article discusses how far the ecological state can go in pursuing sustainable development without intruding on democratic values. Focussing on social choice mechanisms, it draws the image of the ecological state as a “green fist in a velvet glove.”