The prospects of tropical timber plantation investment fundsEnvironmentalist - Tập 18 - Trang 167-173 - 1998
Bert Scholtens
As financial markets start to acknowledge the significance of environmental
issues, it is interesting to analyse how they combine finance and sustainable
development. Dutch investment funds participating in tropical forest plantations
project high expected returns. However, they carry huge financial risks, in
particular country risk, currency risk, price risk and credit risk. The
environmental and... hiện toàn bộ
The classic environmental issueEnvironmentalist - Tập 1 - Trang 217-221 - 1981
Graham Bennett
Environmental issues are rarely straightforward. The construction of the Tellico
Dam not only proved to be an exceptionally complex environmental problem but
also developed into a major political issue in its own right. Following the
discovery of a previously unknown species of fish near the site of the nearly
completed dam, environmentalists began a long legal battle to halt construction
work and... hiện toàn bộ
Some pitfalls of ‘manstream’ environmental theory and practiceEnvironmentalist - Tập 13 - Trang 263-275 - 1993
Janis Birkeland
Radical environmentalists consider the environmental crisis to be ultimately one
of culture and character. However, in analyses and strategies for social
transformation, non-feminist greens have generally accepted the Patriarchal
conception of human motivation, which is based on a rational, impersonal (read
‘Masculine’) model of ‘Man’. Thus, it is implicitly assumed that the motivations
underlying... hiện toàn bộ
Observations and remarks on the concept of chemical communication and the integration of sciencesEnvironmentalist - Tập 7 - Trang 259-270 - 1987
Michele Trimarchi, Paolo Manzelli, John Eaton
Following the general educational project of the Centre for Human Evolution
Studies of Rome, this paper considers the importance of the development of
fundamental conceptions in chemistry. Specifically, an “anticipative” chemical
education, which would foster a more complete understanding of life sciences, is
proposed through an historical approach to the development of fundamental
conceptions in ... hiện toàn bộ