...Jeannie Sowers; Erika Weinthal The effects of conflict on public health and ecosystem well-being are understudied and rarely figure in public debates about war-making. Protracted conflicts are particularly damaging to people and environments in ways that are inadequately documented. In recent wars...

...J. R. McNeill Excerpts from a Current History essay published two decades ago. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 environment environmental politics climate change Domestic politics in open societies proved mildly more responsive to environmental problems...

... are remembered and venerated for bringing Islam to the region and civilizing the wasteland. Bangladesh India religion Islam Hinduism environment climate change As Bangladesh took steps toward creating a secular democracy after gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, the country experienced...

... trade developing nations development culture environment 29 Rather than assuming that host communities must serve the industry, expecta- tions should be adjusted so that tourism genuinely aligns with those communi- ties own priorities. Tourism and Its Discontents in the Global South JOSEPH...

... of the University of California environment pollution consumers trade climate change 22 The best set of solutions is likely to span the scale from individual to interna- tional action, and to address different points along the chain of production, con- sumption, and disposal. Solving the Oceans...

... groups throughout the world, northern Russia s inhabitants have long subsisted by making use of and also innovating based on a set of historical/ancestral adaptations to their specific environment. Overall, because resources are relatively sparse in northern ecosys- tems, the various groups have depended...

... India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Ganges River Indus River Brahmaputra River Indus Water Treaty Ganges Waters Treaty climate change environment rivers South Asia 148 [D]isputes have deepened to the extent that water is seen as inherently a source of conflict rather than...

... of Karnataka , by Meera Subramanian PublicAffairs , 2015 © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Sheila Jasanoff India environment sustainable development pollution book review Meera Subramanian River Runs Again Green...

... a global impact, like greenhouse gases. JOYEETA GUPTA is a professor of environment and develop- ment in the global South at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a professor of water and environmental law and policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, in Delft. 312 CURRENT HISTORY...

... of the University of California Lorraine Elliott nations successor environment Kyoto protocol 2015 agree heavy burden climate change global warming mitigation fossil fuels carbon footprint output reduction paris treaty china united states secretary ban ki-moon Intergovernmental...

... nationalism climate change environment Baltic Lithuania Poland bloc power grid Kyoto protocol United Nations Framework Convention UNFCCC CEE WWF Bulgaria Romania Kazakh Kazakhstan exception 278 Achieving relatively easy terms under the Kyoto Protocol did not necessarily inspire post...

...Sheila Jasanoff Scientific advances offer hope, but governments must cooperate to save the environment. Sheila Jasanoff climate change technology environment cities geoengineering global warming 12 Forward trajectories in science, technology, and local initiative look like causes...

... within and across nations, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has increased significantly. When it comes to environmental indicators, the trends are on the whole negative, as the UN Sharachchandra lele is a senior fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, in Ban- galore...

... Shapiro China environment environmental activism environmentalism nongovernmental organizations pollution social media networking supply chain protest 224 The activists strategies . . . reflect both the importance of new social media and the shifting constraints under which civil...

... assumes that developing coun- tries must resort to the same kinds of environmentally unfriendly behav- iors that the devel- oped countries like the United States have pursued on their path to industrialization. It condemns poorer countries to a choice between scarcity and environ- mental destruction...

... concern. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California United States Europe environment global warming emissions greenhouse effect Kyoto Protocol Bill Clinton George Bush energy 113 Although the dispute about climate change...

..., if they are not to overwhelm the world. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Africa Clinton debt relief environment family planning foreign policy George Bush HIV/AIDS peacekeeping population The greatest international challenge facing theUnited...

... environmental ethics far-reaching moral claims into the competitive, militarized, economi- cally unequal world political system? Although explorations in environmental ethics now have a long resumé, the dialogue over the human debt to the natural environment has pro- ceeded largely without reference...

..., this time ignited by an environmental collapse. WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH? The Asia-Pacific environment was already highly vulnerable when Asian currencies began to crash in mid-1997, triggering financial crises throughout the region. Loggers had degraded much of the region s old-growth tropical forests...