The Limits of Techno-management in Transitioning to Green Cities
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
Melosi analyzes the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to highlight how limited perspectives on urban greenness once were.
Jennifer Clapp examines the nature of international trade in toxic waste and the roles of multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Waste transfer has become a routine practice for firms in industrialized countries and poor countries accept these imports but struggle to manage the materials safely. She argues that governments have failed to recognize the voices of protest.
Finn Arne Jørgensen examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to the present day. He reveals the challenges faced when the system was exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling.
The authors promote the idea of “Natural Governance” as a new approach to conservation based on three pillars, namely ecology, cooperation, and cultural systems.
The first episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the impact of oil on 20th-century plastic production, geopolitical conflict, and culture.
The second episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on how the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) approaches issues of social justice and equity in their research.
The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
The fourth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on professor David Wilson´s latest research on Irish organized nationalism in Canada between 1866 and 1871.
The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.