Protects against the extraction of fossil fuels and other natural resources - ecological distribution conflicts - cannot simply be resolved by payments of compensation. That is because for most people outside of the corporate boardroom, money is not the primary concern. JOAN MARTINEZ ALIER, a leading academic, investigates
Environmental protests succeed 20 percent of the time and 'compensation' rarely stops communities, research finds Joan Martinez-Alier | 31st January 2018 Comment Protest Mining Fossil Fuels Politics …
This is an age of hyper-connectivity where being available 24/7 is a given. But this can have serious health and social impacts. PAULA BYRNE and JONATHAN BATE urge us to turn our devices off, slow it down and savour the calming powers of good literature...
… linguistic equivalent of the best food and wine. Most of the time, we fill our minds with …
The political leadership in China has vowed to make the ancient country the world's first ‘ecological civilisation’. But how sincere is this grand ambition? JAMES P GRAHAM travelled to a conference at the Fujian Province University of Forestry and Agriculture to find out
… table to greet and toast everyone with plum wine on the way, I found particularly …