Lee, Keekok, "Beauty for Ever?"
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
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.
In April 1979, the European Communities (EC) adopted the Council Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds (79/409/EEC), the so-called “Birds Directive.”
In this article, Hub Zwart discusses the emergence of a cultivated landscape in the Netherlands.
In his article, Alastair Iles analyzes how consumers, farmers, activists, industry, and policy-makers in the United States and Europe are building agency in making and using food miles.
The article links this battlefield to the historical accounts of the “Battle of Teutoberg Forest” in the year 9 AD, in which three Roman legions suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of Germanic troops.
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.
This article looks at the history of the plant Erythroxylum coca—a natural source of cocaine—which offers one way to trace the interaction between a physiological agent in history and the growth of empires.
ECOVILLAGES, is a collaborative research project in which ecovillagers and academics, and ecovillager academics, aim to advance the political recognition, number, resources, and influence of ecovillages in the Baltic Sea Region.
The authors discuss a series of workshops held with residents of the ecovillage Sieben Linden to discuss what the idea of being a “model and research project” meant to them.