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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

As FEW nexus policy prescriptions are increasingly securitized (discussed and understood through the lens of security), my research finds that such spaces produce an environmental security narrative that situates economic productivity as that which is most at risk from threats posed by natural resource scarcities (Liebenguth 2020).

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) has explained that this sentence is intended to signal that a “full ‘lifecycle’ analysis that would account for energy used in building materials and consumer products will generally not be required.”. See California Building Industry Association v. City of Los Angeles, 201 Cal.App.4th

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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. Extractive activities are based on the concept of sustainable development and require forests to remain intact. The protection of these communities relates explicitly to their territory according to the ILO Convention No.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than in England,” Malthus famously wrote, “and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.” This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.”

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

House Hearing On Reauthorizing Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Program: We Don’t Deserve To Wait Any Longer For Clean Streams, Diversified Economies -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership: Returning Forests To Reclaimed Abandoned Mine Lands -- Trout Stocking On Ten Mile Creek In Greene County With Izaak Walton League Members -- DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: (..)