economy

Agnoletti and Corona provide the background on this issue.

Japan has one of the most eco-efficient economies in the world. The present paper looks at the history of two central policy measures designed to stimulate the emergence of a more sustainable industrial base.

A review of economist Óscar Carpintero’s history of resource use in the Spanish economy.

This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.

The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.

This fictional drama is inspired by Eric Schlosser’s nonfiction book of the same name. Both explore the complex realities behind that staple of American fast food, the burger—from the slaughterhouse, via the laboratory, to the shop counter.

This film shows how farming, state, and business and finance interrelate, such that various forms of malnutrition continue to pose a risk that is often life threatening, even in times of overproduction.

A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.

Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.