tourism

This collection highlights three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites’ experiences of the environment through mobility. It divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers’ uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility.

Catrina A. MacKenzie, Rebecca K. Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, and Joel Hartter use interviews and focus group discussions to assess the interaction of oil exploration with the three primary conservation policies employed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority: protectionism, neoliberal capital accumulation, and community-based conservation.

In this Special Section on the Green Economy in the South, Stasja Koot and Walter van Beek argue that a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, with a strong focus on tourism, has dominated and changed the environment of the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen.

The film highlights the pollution of the Baltic Sea from agricultural run-off and wastewaters, particularly in the Kocinka catchment of Poland. It offers multiple perspectives from the range of stakeholders, and is the outcome of the Soils2Sea project which ran from 2014 to 2017.

Through examining topics of nuclear energy and tourism, Zivilgesellschaft und Protest portrays the transitions towards radicalism in the Bavarian environmental movement from the end of the Second World War to the late 1970s.