The environmental movement, also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources and stewardship of the environment through changes in public policy and individual behavior. In its recognition of humanity as a participant in ecosystems, the movement is centered on ecology, health, and human rights.
Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization.
Integrated geography is the branch of geography that describes and explains the spatial aspects of interactions between human individuals or societies and their natural environment, these interactions being called coupled human–environment systems.
Michael J. Watts is Emeritus "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He retired in 2016. He is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left, described as "a fiercely original mind, and a brilliant theorist".
Paul Gerard Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist.
Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the dean of American historical geography" and he was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his best known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."
Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa.
David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Environmental philosophy is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and humans' place within it. It asks crucial questions about human environmental relations such as "What do we mean when we talk about nature?" "What is the value of the natural, that is non-human environment to us, or in itself?" "How should we respond to environmental challenges such as environmental degradation, pollution and climate change?" "How can we best understand the relationship between the natural world and human technology and development?" and "What is our place in the natural world?" As such, it uniquely positions itself as a field set to deal with the challenges of the 21st Century. Environmental philosophy includes environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, ecofeminism, environmental hermeneutics, and environmental theology. Some of the main areas of interest for environmental philosophers are:
Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. For the year 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His latest book is Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), the second part of the planned two-volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. It is a follow-up to the acclaimed Gandhi Before India (2013). His large body of work, covering a wide range of fields and yielding a number of rational insights, has made him a significant figure in Indian historical studies, and Guha is valued as one of the major historians of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California and a full Professor of Civil Law in the University of Turin, Italy. He is the Academic Coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a radically new school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. He is also a columnist for the Italian newspapers Il Manifesto and Il Fatto Quotidiano. For his ground-breaking studies on the commons, in 2017 Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.
The Journal of Applied Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in all areas of environmental management. It was established in 1964 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Ecological Society. The editors-in-chief are Marc Cadotte, Jos Barlow, Nathalie Pettorelli, Philip Stephens, and Martin Nuñez. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.196.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is a peer-reviewed scientific journal issued 10 times per year, and consists of peer-reviewed, synthetic review articles on all aspects of ecology, the environment, and related disciplines, as well as short, high-impact research communications of broad interdisciplinary appeal. Additional features include editorials, breaking news, a letters section, job ads, and special columns. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 8.302, ranking it 5th out of 241 journals in the category "Environmental Sciences" and 6th out of 158 journals in the category "Ecology".
Sverker Sörlin, born 6 August 1956 in Åsele, Västerbotten, is a Swedish historian of ideas, professor in environmental history, and writer.
Mary Evelyn Tucker is the co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University with her husband, John Allan Grim. Tucker teaches in the joint Master’s program in religion and ecology at Yale between the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Divinity School. She also has an appointment at Yale’s Department of Religious Studies. She has authored and edited close to 20 volumes and has published hundreds of articles. She is a pioneer in the field of religion and ecology. She is the granddaughter of Carlton J.H. Hayes, noted European historian at Columbia University and Ambassador to Spain in WWII under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As an author, she is largely held in libraries worldwide. She teaches a MOOC specialization of four courses on Journey of the Universe and “The Worldview of Thomas Berry.”
Policy Studies Organization is an academic organization whose purpose is to advance the study of policy analysis by publishing academic journals and book series, sponsoring conferences and producing programs.
The Industrial Ecology Programme, or IndEcol, at NTNU is an interdisciplinary research programme specialising in sustainable development, circular economy research and environmental issues.
