- Africa in Crisis
The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy Resource Type: Book Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
- Borneo's Killer Dams
Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
- Canada and the State of the Planet
The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
A Guide to Selected Resources Resource Type: Article
- The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
How You Can Help Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
- Deforestation
Wikipedia Article Resource Type: Article Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use. Tropical rainforests is where the most concentrated deforestation occurs. Almost 30% of the world is covered by forests, excluding water mass.
- Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
- Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
- Desertification
Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A decade ago the Sahel drought killed thousands of people and millions of animals. It focused world attention on the dangers and causes of desertification. This book examines the reasons: overcultivation, overgrazing, deforestation and bad irrigation.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- The Fuelwood Trap
Policy and Planning in the SADCC Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The vast majority of the 60 million people in SADCC countries rely on woodfuel for domestic use. As supplies diminish, the quality of life is deteriorating while the environment becomes more and more degraded. This book looks at the demands to be made on politicians and planners and describes not simply the costs and effects of the problem but also suggests major ways forward.
- The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
- A Last Chance for the World's Forests?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 An alarming new study has shown that the worlds forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of 'core forest' -- remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes -- are vanishing even faster.
- Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
- Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
- Saving the Tropical Forests
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The book provides a vision of hope for the tropical rainforests of the world. In Latin America, Africa, India and South East Asia, growing numbers of people are developing techniques and projects specifically designed to promote the wise use and preservation of remaining forest lands. The authors believe that action must be based on the development and improvement of existing alternatives to destruction or it will fail.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- State of the Ark
An Atlas of Conservation in Action Resource Type: Book
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- Two foreign journalists arrested while covering Greenpeace operation
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday#s arrest of two foreign journalists # Kumkum Dasgupta of India and Raimondo Bultrini of Italy # while covering a Greenpeace protest against uncontrolled deforestation on Sumatra Island.
- The Vanishing Forest
Resource Type: Book While loggers, ranchers, road and dam builders destroy forests for short-term gains, the world is losing what could be its long-term economic base. Deforestation threatens irreversible climatic changes and the loss of gene pools. Not an ecological treatise, this report focuses on the suffering endured by the people immediately dependent on dwindling forest land and how this process is affecting their health and livelihood.
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