Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation
Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 11
global policy
Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya
Full open-access volume Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya (2025) by Greta Semplici.
Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chapters from the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, and Marco Tamborini.
A Letter to the Citizens of Hangzhou
Environmental historian Fei Sheng, a native of Hangzhou, addresses this city’s citizens to consider balancing economic growth with environmental protection while expressing hope for Hangzhou’s future.
Enforced Cosmopolitanization and the Staging of Risks
Heike Egner critiques both the pessimism and idealism in Ulrich Beck’s risk theory, highlighting the limits of global cooperation and the role of science in amplifying risk.
The Multiple Faces of Riskiness
Diana Mincyte analyzes how post-socialist risk discourses in Eastern Europe deflected attention from systemic upheaval, legitimizing capitalism while obscuring structural causes.
“Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro”
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.