Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond

This article is part of a symposium issue entitled Cultural Environmentalism @ 10, occuring on the tenth anniversary of Prof. Boyle\u27s book, Shamans, Software, and Spleens. In this article Prof. Boyle offers his thoughts on the failings, limitations, occasional promise, and possible future of the ideas discussed in the symposium including both the work on cultural environmentalism and the surrounding ideas on authorship, the rhetoric of economic analysis, the structure of intellectual property scholarship, and the jurisprudence of the public domain

Living Through The End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism by Paul Wapner

Review of Living Through The End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism by Paul Wapner

Small is beautiful: a brief review

Recurso educativo (uc 23002)A mixture of philosophy, environmentalism and economics.info:eu-repo/semantics/draf

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eSacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India\u3c/em\u3e

Book Review of Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India. Eliza F.Kent. Oxford University Press, 2013. 236 pages

Environmentalists' Behaviour and Environmental Policies policies

In this partial equilibrium and static model, the impact of environmentalism on two countries' environmental policies is presented. First, the only (indirect) way environmentalists influence the choice of pollution taxes is through a negative term in the welfare function in Home. It is defined as passive environmentalism (PE). Second, this article is a first attempt to consider domestic environmentalists lobbying a foreign government. It is defined as active environmentalism (AE). Our contribution is threefold. We emphasize first that the way environmentalists act is paramount to study the consequences of their actions. Passive or active environmentalisms have very different impacts on environmental policies. Second, we show that lobbying activities can be counter-productive for environmentalists. Third, we characterize cases in which the presence of environmentalists has a non-ambiguous positive impact on welfare.Environmentalism, Lobby Groups, Positive Environmental Economics, Strategic Environmental Policy

Dominion, Dressing, Keeping

In this essay, David Sumner uses his experiences rafting on the Colorado River to juxtapose the Biblical notions of dressing and keeping with ethical environmentalism

Surging Environmentalism in Japan : Back to the Root

"The major objective of this paper is to examine the complex phenomenon of the interrelationship among several conditions that have transformed Japanese environmentalism in its socio-economic situations, political activities, cultural contexts and ecological condition. To elucidate this point, this paper will trace the evolution of Japanese environmentalism, focusing on its socio-ecological structure with regard to the following two stages; The first generation stage, i. e., early environmentalism and second generation stage, i. e., contemporary environmentalism. This discussion will illustrate the characteristics of Japanese Environmentalism. In conclusion, we discuss challenges for future environmentalism in Japan, focusing on its instrumental environmentalism and environmental elitism. "Japanese environmentalismenvironmental elitisminstrumental environmentalismsocio-ecological structur

NGOs and the search for Chinese civil society environmental non-governmental organisations in the Nujiang campaign

voluntary organizations; nonprofit organizations; grass roots groups; environmentalism; civil society; advocacy; China;

The Invention of Traditional Knowledge

Sunder argues that the failure of intellectual property to recognize the contributions of traditional and natural sources cannot be rectified by mere payment and she posits a non-monetizable, non-utilitarian benefit in terms of worth or dignity in having one\u27s contribution as the subject labelled of an intellectual property right. Foregrounding the important role of raw materials in the process of innovation, cultural environmentalism helped provide a theoretical and political basis for recognition and recompense for the purveyors of those raw materials-often indigenous peoples who have cultivated the earth\u27s biodiversity and who hold traditional knowledge about that biodiversity. Moreover, focus on the effects on the poor of the cultural environmentalism metaphor through its reification of the division between raw and cooked knowledge, a conceptual separation long fundamental to intellecual property law

Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations

This introductory article for a themed edition on environmentalism provides a particular context for those articles that follow, each of which engages with different aspects of environmentalism and performance in community-related settings. Responding to the proposition that there is a lacuna in the field of applied drama and environmentalism (Bottoms, 2010), we suggest that the more significant lack is that of ecocriticism. As the articles in this journal testify, there are many examples of applied theatre practice; what is required is sustained and rigorous critical engagement. It is to the gap of ecocriticism that we address this issue, signalling what we hope is the emergence of a critical field. One response to the multiple challenges of climate change is to more transparently locate the human animal within the environment, as one agent amongst many. Here, we seek to transparently locate the critic, intertwining the personal – ourselves, human actants – with global environmental concerns. This tactic mirrors much contemporary writing on climate change and its education, privileging personal engagement – a shift we interrogate as much as we perform. The key trope we anchor is that of uncertainty: the uncertainties that accompany stepping into a new research environment; the uncertainties arising from multiple relations (human and non-human); the uncertainties of scientific fact; the uncertainties of forecasting the future; and the uncertainties of outcomes – including those of performance practices. Having analysed a particular turn in environmental education (towards social learning) and the failure to successfully combine ‘art and reality’ in recent UK mainstream theatre events, such uncertainties lead to our suggestion for an ‘emancipated’ environmentalism. In support of this proposal, we offer up a reflection on a key weekend of performance practice that brought us to attend to the small – but not insignificant – and to consider first hand the complex relationships between environmental ‘grand narratives’ and personal experiential encounters. Locating ourselves within the field and mapping out some of the many conceptual challenges attached to it serves to introduce the territories which the following journal articles expand upon