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  • Complexity disasters

    (a) Breakdown of institutional structures (loss of stabilizing and reorganizing capacity) The vast literature on resilience has argued that socio-ecological systems in general retain varying capacities to ‘absorb disturbance and reorganise …

  • Policy instruments for sustainability

    Economic, regulatory and voluntary instruments Governments can act through different public policy instruments in order to support behavioural change towards sustainability. Instruments can vary according to the degree of public intervention: …

  • High speed train in Italy. The end of the tunnel?

    By Lucie Greyl. It will be almost 20 years since an entire Italian alpine valley started to resist against the development of a new high-speed train line between Lyon and Turin, …

  • NEW EJOLT REPORT: Mining from an environmental justice perspective

    While world population increased 72 percent between 1970 and 2004, extraction of construction materials grew by 106 percent. The total consumption and extraction increased for practically all mineral resources – …