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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants. World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history must now…

As a replicant, or “technohuman,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “antitechno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought.…

Every year, a forest area the size of Greece1 is lost. More than 80% of the world’s forests have been cleared, fragmented or degraded. The world’s biodiversity and climate, and the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people are under serious threat.The book Principles and Practice of Forest Landscape Restoration: Case studies from the drylands of Latin America, edited by A.C. Newton and N…

The purpose of this guide is to provide organisers and hosts of meetings and events from 10 to 100 participants with practical information and recommendations on how to manage their Brussels meetings and events more sustainably.

This joint study has two objectives: to analyze the historical climate trends in the region, identify hotspots and determine the potential implications for livelihoods which depend on natural resources; and to provide recommendations for improving conflict and migration sensitivity in adaptation planning, investments and policies across the region.The study, which covers 17 countries in the Sahel…

This report documents and analyses good practice examples of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe. Case studies on ecosystem-based approaches to mitigation involved peatland restoration or conservation (11 projects) and forest conservation, restoration and reforestation (2 projects). Case studies on ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation were divided…