Vertedero

¿Qué ocurre realmente con lo que tiramos? Tras esta simple pregunta el galardonado periodista de investigación Franklin-Wallis se sumerge de lleno en la crisis mundial de los residuos y saca a la luz el mundo oculto que sustenta nuestra economía moderna. En la India conoce ...

Long problems

climate change and the challenge of governing across time

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generations Climate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last ...

Overshoot

how the world surrendered to climate breakdown

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more ...

Climate finance

taking a position on climate futures

Climate change is increasingly contested on financial terms. Different actors are advancing competing climate visions and interests by adopting financial positions. International institutions urge action by identifying financing gaps needed to meet climate targets. The finance sector claims it holds the key to unlocking money ...

Circular economies in an unequal world

waste, renewal, and the effects of global circularity

This landmark first anthropological open access volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global implications. Aspirations towards a circular economy have become increasingly ...

Profit

An environmental history

Profit - getting more out of something than you put into it - is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting ...

Investiga AZUL

Conectando la investigación sostenible y transdisciplinar desde el enfoque de la economía azul

Divulgar la ciencia es crucial por motivos que comprenden desde el progreso social y económico, hasta la educación y la participación democrática. La divulgación científica permite que el conocimiento generado en ámbitos académicos y científicos llegue a audiencias más amplias. Porque con ello, además, se ...

El tiempo de fuego

historia de un incendio en un mundo más cálido

En mayo de 2016, Fort McMurray, el centro neurálgico de la industria petrolera canadiense y el mayor proveedor extranjero de Estados Unidos, fue arrasado por un incendio forestal. La catástrofe, valorada en miles de millones de dólares, derritió vehículos, convirtió barrios enteros en bombas incendiarias ...

Workers of the earth

labour, ecology and reproduction in the age of climate change

Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle. In Workers of the Earth, Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on ...

Hágase el agua

la solución de Israel para un mundo hambriento de agua

Israel, un país donde el sesenta por ciento de la superficie es desierto, no solo pudo resolver el problema del agua, sino que la tiene en abundancia. Incluso provee de agua a sus vecinos —palestinos y jordanos— todos los días. Hágase el agua se basa ...

Capitalism created the climate crisis and capitalism will solve it

the market forces catalyzing a climate technology renaissance

Creative and practical free-market solutions to climate change In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change ...

Hubo un momento en que pudimos cambiar esto

El fenómeno del Calentamiento Global ha desatado en cascada una serie de medidas gubernamentales nacionales e internacionales, políticas, económicas y sociales que afectan y van a afectar a la vida cotidiana de la ciudadanía. Además se ha producido un fenómeno de sobreinformación en los medios ...

The price is wrong

why capitalism won't save the planet

What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? This is Brett Christophers' claim. The global economy is moving too ...

Future of denial

the ideologies of climate change

The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental humanities draws on the latest climatology, the ...

Plásticos sin límite

cómo alimentan las empresas la crisis ecológica y qué podemos hacer al respecto

A lo largo de últimas décadas, la producción y el consumo de plástico han aumentado de una manera imparable, y esta situación se ha visto agravada a causa de la pandemia mundial de covid-19. En la actualidad, las toneladas de envases y bolsas realizados con ...

Possible

ways to net zero

'As Chris Goodall explains, removing fossil fuels from our energy system is technologically feasible ... and we should take heart that these steps to fight climate change will also lead to large and immediate gains in our day-to-day health' Tim Harford A carbon neutral future is ...

Ecologismos

diferentes planteamientos frente a la problemática ambiental

En estos momentos de urgencia climática y de crisis ambiental que nos ha tocado vivir, ahora que el ecologismo, la sostenibilidad o lo natural son conceptos polisémicos que remiten a políticas y prácticas sumamente diferentes e incluso opuestas, se necesita esclarecer el panorama ecologista, recuperando ...

A just energy transition

getting decarbonisation right in a time of crisis

To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if this is leading to unfair transitions, in ...

Chaos in the heavens

a history of climate change from the fifteenth to the twentieth century

Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated ...

La crisis de los insectos

la caída de los pequeños imperios que gobiernan el mundo

No hace falta ser muy mayor para recordar viajes en coche que terminaban con el parabrisas emborronado por las huellas de los insectos voladores que se estrellaban contra él, las luces cubiertas por un bullicio de mosquitos y polillas en las noches de verano o ...