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How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability
After decades of inadequate responses to scientists' warnings about global environmental threats, leading analysts of the science-policy interface are seeking an important shift of research focus. This switch is from continued modeling and diagnoses of biogeochemical conditions in favor of enhanced efforts to understand the many socio-political obstacles to achieving just transformations towards sustainability, and how to overcome them. We discuss why this shift continues to prove elusive. We argue that rarely analyzed mutually reinforcing power structures, interests, needs, and norms within the institutions of global environmental change science obstruct rethinking and reform. The blockage created by these countervailing forces are shielded from scrutiny and change through retreats behind shields of neutrality and objectivity, stoked and legitimated by fears of losing scientific authority. These responses are maladaptive, however, since transparency and reflexivity are essential for rethinking and reform, even in contexts marked by anti-environmentalism. We therefore urge greater openness, self-critique, and power-sharing across research communities, to create spaces and support for conversations, diverse knowledges, and decisions conducive to sustainability transformations.
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Modeling for sustainable development: a multidisciplinary approach
Sustainable development is a highly integrated concept that encompasses many disciplines such as economics, social sciences, culture, technologies, natural resources, and environmental domains, while achieving sustainable development is a comprehensive multidisciplinary process involving coordination and function. Through research and teaching, the transdisciplinary science of sustainability is a fundamental part of this approach. This book offers approaches to develop a transdisciplinary perspective that encompasses the natural, social, and human sciences in the search for a sustainable society.
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The Republican reversal : conservatives and the environment from Nixon to Trump
Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party's tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a \"hoax\" and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened? In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party's transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states'-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man's God-given dominion of the Earth. As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP's modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party's distinguishing characteristics.-- Provided by publishe
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Petroturfing
How social media has become a critical tool for
advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry
Petroturfing presents an incisive look into how
Canada's pro-oil movement has leveraged social media to rebrand the
extractive economy as a positive force. Adapting its title from the
concept of astroturfing, which refers to the practice of disguising
political and corporate media campaigns as grassroots movements,
the book exposes the consequences of this mutually informed
relationship between social media and environmental politics.
Since the early 2010s, an increasingly influential network of
pro-oil groups, organizations, and campaigns has harnessed social
media strategies originally developed by independent environmental
organizations in order to undermine resistance to the fossil fuel
industry. Situating these actions within the broader oil culture
wars that have developed as an outgrowth of contemporary right-wing
media, Petroturfing details how this coalition of groups
is working to reform the public view of oil extraction as something
socially, economically, and ecologically beneficial.
By uncovering these concerted efforts to influence the \"energy
consciousness,\" Jordan B. Kinder reveals the deep divide between
Canada's environmentally progressive reputation and the economic
interests of its layers of government and private companies
operating within its borders. Drawing attention to the structures
underlying online political expression, Petroturfing
highlights the limitations of social media networks in the work of
promoting environmental justice and contributing to a more
equitable future.
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The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions
The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals across Europe and North America promise to reduce emissions while creating new jobs.But beneath the sustainability branding, these climate 'solutions' are leading to new environmental injustices and green colonialism. The green growth and clean energy plans of the Global North require the large-scale extraction of strategic minerals from the Global South. The geopolitics of transition imply sacrificing not only territories, but truly sustainable ways of inhabiting this world. A new subordination in the global energy economy prevents societies in the South from developing sovereign strategies to foster a dignified life.This book provides a platform for the voices that have been conspicuously absent in debates around energy and climate in the Global North. Drawing on case studies from across the Global South, the authors offer incisive critiques of green colonialism in its material, political and symbolic dimensions, discuss the multiple entanglements that forcefully connect the transitions of different world regions in a globalised economy, and explore alternative pathways toward a liveable and globally just future for all.
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Total Liberation
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF's communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group's customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, \"all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,\" and decried the \"patriarchal nightmare\" in the form of \"techno-industrial global capitalism.\"
InTotal Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists' uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines,Total Liberationreveals the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights movements challenge inequity through a vision they call \"total liberation.\" In its encounters with such infamous activists as scott crow, Tre Arrow, Lauren Regan, Rod Coronado, and Gina Lynn, the book offers a close-up, insider's view of one of the most important-and feared-social movements of our day. At the same time, it shows how and why the U.S. justice system plays to that fear, applying to these movements measures generally reserved for \"jihadists\"-with disturbing implications for civil liberties and constitutional freedom.
How do the adherents of \"total liberation\" fight oppression and seek justice for humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike? And how is this pursuit shaped by the politics of anarchism and anticapitalism? In his answers, Pellow provides crucial in-depth insight into the origins and social significance of the earth and animal liberation movements and their increasingly common and compelling critique of inequality as a threat to life and a dream of a future characterized by social and ecological justice for all.
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Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World
What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn
with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo
Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal
environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our
Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of
reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from
time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to
the author's daughter, this collection presents ethical questions
outdoor enthusiasts regularly face as they work and play in the
natural world.
The essays in this book explore environmentalism in a modern-day
context, with topics including sustainability education, the
current relevance of environmental writers from the past, and the
uncertainty of what is meant by words like \"naturalist,\"
\"solitude,\" and \"wilderness.\" There is no attempt to direct readers
to any particular environmental philosophy. Instead, Simpson
encourages readers to articulate their own perspective based on
personal experiences in nature. Though Essays to My
Daughter is written by a father to his daughter, the insights
within the volume-and the questions they provoke-are valuable to
all members of the next generation as they grapple with their own
relationship to the natural world.
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