ToshihiroHiguchi. Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rubinson
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Nuclear Weapons Testing ◽  
Global Environmental

scholarly journals Coastal wetlands can be saved from sea level rise by recreating past tidal regimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Sadat-Noori ◽  
Caleb Rankin ◽  
Duncan Rayner ◽  
Valentin Heimhuber ◽  
Troy Gaston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Wetlands ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ground Vegetation ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Tidal Regime ◽  
Vegetation Sampling ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Intertidal Ecosystems

AbstractClimate change driven Sea Level Rise (SLR) is creating a major global environmental crisis in coastal ecosystems, however, limited practical solutions are provided to prevent or mitigate the impacts. Here, we propose a novel eco-engineering solution to protect highly valued vegetated intertidal ecosystems. The new ‘Tidal Replicate Method’ involves the creation of a synthetic tidal regime that mimics the desired hydroperiod for intertidal wetlands. This synthetic tidal regime can then be applied via automated tidal control systems, “SmartGates”, at suitable locations. As a proof of concept study, this method was applied at an intertidal wetland with the aim of restabilising saltmarsh vegetation at a location representative of SLR. Results from aerial drone surveys and on-ground vegetation sampling indicated that the Tidal Replicate Method effectively established saltmarsh onsite over a 3-year period of post-restoration, showing the method is able to protect endangered intertidal ecosystems from submersion. If applied globally, this method can protect high value coastal wetlands with similar environmental settings, including over 1,184,000 ha of Ramsar coastal wetlands. This equates to a saving of US$230 billion in ecosystem services per year. This solution can play an important role in the global effort to conserve coastal wetlands under accelerating SLR.

The Convention on Biological Diversity: From Realism to Cosmopolitanism

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 335-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Maris
Keyword(s):  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Global Environmental

The decline of biodiversity is without a doubt one of the most important symptoms of what could be called a “global environmental crisis.” Our ability to stop this decline depends on the capacity to implement an effective, collective system of preservation on a global scale. In this paper, I will analyze the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the international agreement that aims at creating this type of global cooperation.While I consider that cosmopolitan governance is desirable, given the legitimacy of the preservation of global biological diversity, I will not attempt to directly argue for it here. Still, it is worth mentioning some of the reasons that might lead us to adopt this position. First, certain past conservation measures have been harshly criticized as imperialistic. For example, Project Tiger in India, which Western environmentalists often cited as a success, have had a deleterious effect on local populations.

A STUDY OF THE RADIOSILVER SIGNATURE OF THE 1961-62 NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING PERIOD*†

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (5 Series II) ◽  
pp. 392-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Grismore ◽  
T. R. Folsom ◽  
V. F. Hodge ◽  
D. R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Testing Period ◽  
Nuclear Weapons Testing

Framing the Bomb in the West

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Nevada Test Site ◽  
Nuclear Weapons Testing ◽  
Screen Space ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Focused on the period of atmospheric (above-ground) nuclear weapons testing in the continental United States, from 1945 to 1963, this chapter, written by Susan Courtney, does two things. First, it describes some of the basic conditions and infrastructure that shaped the proliferation of films of nuclear weapons tests, including the U.S. government’s secret military film studio dedicated to this work in the hills above Los Angeles, known as Lookout Mountain Air Force Station or Lookout Mountain Laboratory. Second, it turns to the representational legacy that resulted, which was by no means limited to films made by or for the military. More specifically, it considers how footage of atomic tests in New Mexico and at the Nevada Test Site helped to shape the filmic record of nuclear weapons—and popular cultural memory—by framing the bomb in the desert West, arguably the screen space of American exceptionalism.

The Business of More

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Big Box ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

This chapter pans out from the islands of the Pacific to analyze the forces of unsustainable production and consumption underlying the global sustainability crisis. It demonstrates how, everywhere, inequality is increasing, as is conspicuous, wasteful consumption as companies pursue more sales and more profits. The chapter highlights how advertisers manufacture desires and needs, how big-box retailers and brand manufacturers claiming to be responsible and sustainable are selling inexpensive, nondurable products, and how governments finance infrastructure (e.g., subsidizing roads and bridges) to stimulate even higher levels of consumption. States pursue more consumption in the name of economic growth; multinational corporations for more profits for owners and shareholders; and the world’s billionaires to amass even more wealth. One result, as this chapter documents, is extreme and rising inequality, with 1 percent of the world’s population now controlling approximately half of the world’s wealth. Other results include rising ecological footprints, overexploitation of natural resources, and an escalating global environmental crisis – the themes of the book’s next chapter.

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