sustainability

This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.

The seminal “World Conservation Strategy” of 1980 argues for the protection of essential ecological processes and habitats, the preservation of genetic diversity, and the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.

The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.

In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.

This article aims to disclose the nature and underlying causes of the recent food crises focusing on both conjunctural and structural factors; to analyze the socio-economic and geopolitical impacts of food price increases; to identify the possible strategies to minimize the trade-off between the increase of agricultural production and the sustainable use of natural resources.

In 1987 the UN’s World Commission for Environment and Development publishes the report “Our Common Future,” also known as the “Brundtland Report.”

Using the Central Coast of California as a case study, this article argues that a nexus of ambitious growers and a growing state agricultural bureaucracy worked to create a “brand name” and teach cultivation approaches with increased production and expanded markets. But these same actors also made efforts to keep the long-term health of the industry and the community in mind.

The article aims to provide a historical perspective on the concept of eco-innovation, its different meanings and its position in the modern debate around sustainability.