Venomous Company: Snakes and Agribusiness in Honduras
This essay examines the history of venomous snake research conducted by the Boston-based United Fruit Company starting in the 1920s.
This essay examines the history of venomous snake research conducted by the Boston-based United Fruit Company starting in the 1920s.
In the nineteenth century, the Chilean army developed a strategy to conquer the environment.
Facing It is a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world, written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
Research on determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities. This paper changes the focus to the role played by perceptions themselves.
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
Whereas scientific evidence points towards substantial and urgent reduction in greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions, economic analysis of climate change seems to be out of sync by indicating a more gradual approach.
The private, collective and public nature of soil quality in a watershed provides three different institutional alternatives for watershed management: individual, collective and government action. This study reviews the success and failure of these alternatives in different parts of the world.