Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private landowner in an age of sprawling growth and declining biological diversity?
Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are ......
Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governan
Over the years governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations to try to address their environmental and natural resource management tasks. This title argues that the key to successful and long-lasting innovation must be a realistic understanding of the challenges that face it.
Much of the existing discourse on energy governance deals with hard security issues but neglects the challenges to global governance. Global Energy Governance fills this gap with perspectives on how regulatory institutions can ensure reliable sources of energy, evaluate financial risk, and provide emergency response mechanisms to deal with ......
The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the degree to which its scope of possibilities and its premise are characterized by global existential risks. Despite controversy, this field has been shifting toward mainstream consideration. Geoengineering ......
The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
This research examines the trajectory of the contested field of geoengineering through critical discourse analysis of relevant science policy reports, news media journalism, and congressional hearings. The analysis reveals the evolution of notions of normalcy, legitimacy, and imperative around the controversial field of geoengineering.
Examines the theoretical framing of "nature" in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of climate catastrophe and continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood.
