Banking Nature
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
The article aims to provide a historical perspective on the concept of eco-innovation, its different meanings and its position in the modern debate around sustainability.
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
Vardy and Smith’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities argues that “resilience signals the pernicious return of structural-functionalism precisely at the moment when much more nuanced, thoughtful, and critical attention should be given to the relationships and differences between and within human and nonhuman populations.”
The authors analyze perspectives of conservation professionals on the neoliberalization of ecosystem services, through a survey conducted with a group of conservationists based in Cambridge, England.
Megan Youdelis reviews the book In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer by Steven Davis.
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Bellamy Foster is interviewed on his book, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology.
Full open access book on ecological economics.