21 Articles found
Taylor & Francis Group Articles
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Nutrient dynamics in European water systems - the management perspective emerging from ELOISE, a European cluster of land - ocean interaction studies
The European ELOISE (European Land Ocean Interaction Studies) cluster (>60 projects) is the world`s largest research initiative on land - ocean interactions. Beside its scientific goals, ELOISE is also meant to contribute directly to coastal zone ...
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Agricultural subsidy reform and its implications for sustainable development: the New Zealand experience
The elimination of agricultural subsidies in New Zealand in the mid 1980s has had a range of sustainable development-related effects. Drawing on a `three pillar` (economic, environment and social) paradigm of sustainable development, this article ...
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Two centuries of heating our homes. An empirical - historical contribution to the problem of sustainability on a micro level
Discussions about sustainability are often restricted to statements about energy. However, when the notion was first used, it had a broader meaning. It argued that every generation should strive for economic progress, yet this should affect all ...
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Memories of the tropics in industrial jungles: Constructing nature, contesting nature
This essay examines zoos as a site of struggle in the construction of meanings and memories of human-nature relations. Modern zoos are symbols of imperial power and celebrations of the domination of nature. The grafting of “tropic worlds” onto these ...
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TreeHuggerTV: Re-visualizing environmental activism in the post-network era
As a collection of online videos that explores how to create, consume, and live in environmentally responsible ways, TreeHuggerTV offers a productive site for examining environmental activism at the intersection of nature and culture. This paper ...
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Chewing on the Grizzly Man: Getting to the meat of the matter
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 director Werner Herzog released Grizzly Man. The film explores over 100 hours of video footage left by self-described eco-warrior Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell spent 13 summers living with grizzly bears at the ...
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When Whales “Speak for Themselves”: Communication as a mediating force in wildlife tourism
The case study for this ethnographic investigation is communication within the highest concentration of whale watch operations in the world, located in transnational waters of the North Pacific. The author explores this Western cultural setting in ...
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Tipping point forewarnings in climate change communication: some implications of an emerging trend
Prominent British and American sources now seek to structure public understanding of climate change by issuing “tipping point” forewarnings of danger with increasing frequency. This emerging trend announces a shift in the way we are likely to ...
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“Somethin` tells me it`s all happening at the zoo”: Discourse, power, and conservationism
This study examines how certain Western institutional discourses reproduce particular human relationships with nature. The analysis focuses upon the institutional setting of the zoo, examining long-standing multi-voiced debates about zoos and ...
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Ecotourism as a mechanism for sustainable development: the case of Bhutan
Over the last few decades, Bhutan has followed a controlled tourism policy, with a `high value, low volume` strategy. This approach is based on the country`s sustainable development policy. In recent years, tourism has been identified as the ...
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Trends in bio-hydrogen generation - a review
This paper reviews the research work carried out in bio-hydrogen generation from a renewable source, namely biomass. Bio-hydrogen production has several advantages when compared to photo-electrochemical or thermo-chemical processes due to the low ...
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Pb isotopes in drinking water: a new strategy for source detection of low Pb sources
Source detection of low concentrations of Pb in water, for instance less than 15 μg L-1, may require a new methodology as the tolerances of Pb in drinking water are further reduced. It appears that the isotope properties of Pb may aid ...
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Sustainable development - historical roots of the concept
This article gives an overview of the origin of the concept of sustainable development by going far back in history to trace its roots. It shows how the idea of sustainability evolved through the centuries as a counter to notions of progress. The ...
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Measuring progress towards sustainable development: an ecological framework for selecting indicators
Abstract: There are now numerous sustainable development evaluation methods to evaluate sustainable development progress. Which one to use will depend on the resources, the goals and the stakeholders. Ideally the method selected and its indicators ...
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Multi-level environmental governance: a concept under stress?
IntroductionThe past decade has witnessed a change in the world order of environmental policy making. The strongholds of national environmental policy competence gave room for international regimes beginning in the 1980s, a development that reached ...
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The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCPC) and the framing of Local Climate Policy
Abstract: The paper contributes to the research on understanding local global warming politics. Strategic documents from The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCPC) are analysed to show how CCPC has constructed climate change protection as a ...
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Informal network utilisation and water distribution in two districts in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan
Abstract: This paper analyses informal networks and their utilisation during a period of water scarcity in an upstream and a downstream district in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan. The evaluation is based on an organisational theory approach on ...
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New consumer roles in waste water management
Abstract: Network-bound systems such as water and energy systems are increasingly confronted with environmental problems that cannot be solved without changing their modes of provision. More than any other flow provided through a network-bound ...
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Informing or Empowering? Disclosure in the United States and the Netherlands
Abstract: This paper studies the emergence of one particular `new` environmental policy instrument: disclosure of emission and pollution data. Disclosure is part of a relatively new sub-set of regulatory measures, based on monitoring, ...
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Liberalising environmental governance and the hazards of democratisation
Abstract: Democratising environmental governance is sometimes presented as if it would necessarily yield desirable environmental outcomes. This is in contradistinction to authoritarianism that is seen as inimical to sound biodiversity management. ...