From East to West
Lajos Rácz traces his development as a climate historian back to his experience growing up in rural Hungary.
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Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
"Recognising Land Rights for Conservation? Tenure Reforms in the Northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines"
The authors provide an empirical study of the conservation strategy adopted in the northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines, and criticize the assumptions behind the main legalistic interventions.
“Generation Anthropocene is Upon Us”
Inspired by courses they’ve developed at Stanford, Mike Osborne and Miles Traer created the Generation Anthropocene podcast, a volunteer-based audio show featuring thought leaders.
Earth First! A Citizen’s Guide to the U.S. Forest Service: Managing for Extinction
This Earth First! tabloid describes negative impacts of the U.S. Forest Service on national forests. Topics include reform proposals for the USFS, the role of deep ecology, the destruction of eco-systems across the U.S., abuse of Native American cultural heritage, and a call for the protection of national forests.
Ecological Impacts of Land Struggles in Makonde District, Zimbabwe: 1890 to Present
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 21
Small Is Beautiful. A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful was first published in 1973 and still offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Neoliberal Transformations of the Romanian Agrarian Landscape
This paper explores the unintended local outcomes of the centrally designed land reform in postsocialist Romania, examining two strands of this story in order to understand how land reform was thwarted at a local level.
Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia
Auer, Matthew R., ed. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.