Constructing terrorists: propaganda about animal rights

Confusion and misrepresentation plague discourse on ‘terrorism’. The term is misapplied to actions far removed from violent mass-casualty attacks or peacetime equivalents of war crimes. This article examines how the term is misapplied to non-violent actions of animal rights groups to undermine opposition to animal exploitation industries.     

Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy

Biochar currently attracts technological and market optimism, promising multiple wins – for climate change, food security, bioenergy and health – not least for African farmers. This paper examines the political-economic and discursive processes constructing biochar as a novel green commodity, creating new alliances amongst scientists, businesses, venture capital firms and non-governmental organisations. Carbon market logics are not only threatening large-scale land grabs for biochar feedstocks but also other forms of resource, labour and ecological appropriation through driving research and development and shaping small-scale pilot projects. In these, soil carbon is ‘chopped out’ of its ecosystem and social contexts and revalued as exchangeable pieces of carbon nature. Farmers are hailed as green actors and market winners, provided they discipline their practices according to these new technical and market logics. These discourses contrast strongly with the farmers' existing conceptual and practical repertoires; a case study from Liberia illustrates how farmers already manipulate soil carbon in creating locally valued anthropogenic dark earths, but within diverse farming repertoires, ontologies of human–nature interrelationship and historical and political ecologies.     

弘扬“六盘山精神”，打造绿色固原

“六盘山精神”是“长征精神”的重要组成部分，是固原市全面建设小康社会的强大动力。弘扬“六盘山精神”，全面认识固原市的优势和不利因素，引入国家绿色食品标准和制度，打造绿色固原，是实现固原人民脱贫致富、增产增收目标的必由之路。     

道家生态伦理视域下的城市低碳经济建设探析

道家的生态伦理思想幽深博大,最能体现其基本精神的莫过于"物我为一"的整体观念、"知止知足"的开发原则、热爱自然的伦理情趣等,它们集中地显现出道家生态伦理所特有的东方神韵。道使生态系统趋向平衡,生态系统遵循道所固有的规律运动,循环往复,周而复始。以道家生态伦理指导城市低碳经济建设,有助于我们掌握低碳经济建设的原则,把握低碳经济建设契机,推动其发展。     

我国绿色贸易壁垒的制度缺失及法律对策

目前，我国绿色贸易壁垒的制度缺位或尚不健全主要表现在绿色技术标准、绿色补贴、绿色环境标志、绿色认证、绿色卫生检疫等方面。要充分利用绿色贸易壁垒这把双刃剑，按照法律对策逐步建立和完善我国自己的绿色壁垒制度。     

论中国能源法的生态化

能源法是我国近年来发展最为迅速的立法领域之一。在生态文明观的指导下，不断涌现的能源法呈现出生态化的特征。我国能源法的生态化主要表现为新指导思想的出现、立法结构的生态化、能源法律制度的进步等。     

从环境保护一体化看我国知识产权制度的完善

环境保护一体化要求将环境目标纳入到国家的其他政策领域,成为国家其他政策的一个组成部分,反映了当今世界环境保护、环境政策和环境法的发展趋势。从环境保护一体化的要求看,我国知识产权制度存在着诸多不适合环境保护的问题,其原因在于对知识产权的定位有偏颇,对环境保护的重要性认识不足。我国在知识产权制度的构建中应树立和贯彻环境保护一体化的思想,实现环境保护与技术进步的双赢。     

生态意识的文学表述：苇岸论

散文家苇岸的极具生态性的自然观与人生观在其<大地上的事情>中得到了集中的体现.他能够以其宽厚博爱的胸怀去感受自然、接纳众生,并站在自然的立场上批判现代化进程中的弊病,因而具有深厚的生态哲学思想.他的写作是艺术性与生态性相结合的绿色文学的楷模,在生态批评的视角下,他的散文应该能够跨入经典的行列.     

‘Multicolored’ green criminology and climate change’s achromatopsia

While green criminology may be an effective name or label for the sub-field or perspective within criminology that considers a wide range of environmental issues, it is, in reality, a ‘multicolored green’ – a criminology that engages a spectrum of issues, that reflects the interests of some racial groups more than others, that reveals and analyzes environmental harms which disproportionately impact some racial groups more than others, and that can be approached from a number of vantage points or that can be viewed with variously tinted lenses. This article begins with an overview of climate change, including a discussion of its anticipated impacts and indicators of its already-being-felt effects. It then offers some general comments on the disproportionate impact of environmental threats and harms before turning to a discussion of the present and anticipated distributional impacts of climate change. Here, this article argues that climate change is, in effect, achromatopsic – it is color-blind, in that it affects us all regardless of skin color – but that those impacts will be distributed unevenly/unequally and that various groups are and will continue to be in different positions to adapt to climate change. This article concludes by suggesting that while the environmental harms caused by climate change are real – and the risks and threats they pose tangible and serious – climate change presents an exciting challenge for our creative potential as humans. In the process of reducing our consumption of fossil fuels and stabilizing (or, better yet, reducing) our greenhouse gas emissions, we might better assist those geopolitical regions most at risk (i.e. poor, developing countries) to become more resilient – an approach that is necessary for both the physical health of the planet and the prospects for social justice.     

绿色壁垒之法律透析

自20世纪70年代末80年代初欧洲率先掀起绿色环保运动以来,相关的绿色环保法规、绿色产品认证制度及标志、绿色包装要求等相继在整个发达国家蔓延,且标准和要求日益提升。实践表明,绿色壁垒已逐步成为继反倾销之后影响国际贸易的另一主要障碍,并呈现出进一步增强的趋势。深入系统地剖析绿色壁垒的成因、特点及现状,对于我国突破这一市场准入门槛,规范和促进本国对外贸易的良性发展具有十分重要的现实意义。