environmental activism
As the world has stepped away from financial collapse and recession, we’ve moved onto the threshold of something new.
In 2009 IIED became the host institute for a new cross-sectoral Green Economy Coalition. Their 2009/10 annual report focuses their work through the lens of the green economy movement, bringing together pieces on a range of the year’s projects...
This paper critically assesses the globally dominant pattern of complex relationship that obtains among mass media, market economics, and both cultural and environmental change. Making use of Buddhist conceptual resources that link the meaning of development, environmental conservation and attentional enrichment, the effects of consuming mass media commodities are evaluated in ways that are...
A global guide for designers and industry, it provides support to ecodesign novices and those looking to further their understanding of the field. The manual focuses on three different design approaches: redesign of existing products, radical sustainable product innovation and new product development. An additional section acts as a comprehensive 'how-to' guide for first...
Currently, a growing societal awareness of problems in the context of unsustainable development meets with conflicts of interest, and the actual implementation of sustainability research, and sustainable innovations and technologies, has only been mildly successful. Sustainable development demands nothing less than a radical change in their modes of consumption, production, technology, and...
Mountain people rank amongst the most deprived of the world’s population, and yet, as is well recognised, their stewardship of mountain natural resources is closely linked to the sustainability of life in lowland areas. Mountain women play a crucial, and in many respects dominant role in natural resource management, agricultural production and the well-being and very survival of mountain...
This paper investigates how households’ characteristics, in light of community forestry intervention in the Western Hill of Nepal, influence the perception of environmental quality. Two types of data were used in this study, survey data on household’s characteristics and environmental perception from 212 households and individual level survey data. It was found, taking from the...
In November 2004, news was flashed around the globe that a delegation of environmentalists would present a petition (Climate Justice Programme 2004) to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to place the Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) World Heritage Site on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger, citing melting snow and glacier ice as the primary...
The International Centre for Integrated Mounatin Development (ICIMOD) organised a panel discussion on "The role of the of the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan (HKH) mountain system in the context of a changing climate" in December 2008. Discussion covered key issues and challenges to the HKH region by climate change and what needs to be done. There was discussion on what an institution like ICIMOD could...
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