Displays how throughout US history, law has consistently been foundational to the nation's environmental exploitation and protection, offering crucial lessons for addressing contemporary challenges The relationship between humans and the environment in the United States has been a tale of countless contrasting, overlapping trends, movements, and ......
Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth System, builds on Karl Marx's insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world, it is also waging war on the natural systems that sustain life on Earth. ......
Oportunidades Para America Latina Y El Caribe En La Transicion Energetica
The global transition to a net-zero economy represents a significant opportunity. This World Bank report identifies how Latin America's ample forests, freshwater resources, fertile land, and mineral deposits position the region well to seize this opportunity, and offers concrete recommendations for the path forward.
Land, air, and water have long supported human progress. But today these essential resources are under growing pressure, putting development and well-being at risk. This report shares new data and practical solutions to help countries grow in ways that protect nature and build a healthier, more secure, and more livable future.
This volume focuses on three main questions surrounding the ethics and politics of climate change. The first concerns the limits of welfare economics, and of its utilitarian logic, as arguably still the dominant policy approach to climate change, and one which has loomed correspondingly large in intellectual approaches to the problem in many ......
Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope
At the end of the Reagan administration, American public opinion polls showed there were no discernible differences based on political party in response to the question, "Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?" However, in the early 1990s, a partisan gulf between conservatives and liberals emerged around environmental issues. Today, half as ......
Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope
At the end of the Reagan administration, American public opinion polls showed there were no discernible differences based on political party in response to the question, "Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?" However, in the early 1990s, a partisan gulf between conservatives and liberals emerged around environmental issues. Today, half as ......
The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan
Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster The 2011 Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest severity, which released radioactive elements into the power plant's surrounding environment when back-up systems failed and could not ......
The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan
Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster The 2011 Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest severity, which released radioactive elements into the power plant's surrounding environment when back-up systems failed and could not ......
