Shifting regime shifted policy—interplay of interests in sustainability discourses of forest land use

Abstract

Colonial interest, Commercial interest, Bangladesh forestry, Forest policy, Peoples participation, Policy interest, Regime change, Sustainability and tradition,

Socially constructed environmental issues and sport: A content analysis of Ski Resort Environmental Communications

“…In order to comprehend the current state of environmentalism within sport a short history of how environmental issues have become important concerns across disciplines is presented. To begin, while Thomas Malthus did not specifically address environmental issues, his 1789 "An Essay on the Principle of Population" did call into question the ability of the earth to support the exponentially growing human population (Ali & Hoque, 2008). Malthus' treatise spurred debates regarding the ability of technological and scientific innovations to increase the carrying capacity of the earth, thus allowing for a much larger population than would be sustainable in a system where resources grew only linearly (Ali & Hoque, 2008).…”

“…This Charter set aside public land to serve "not only environmental but also industrial, settlement, and budgetary purposes" (Barton, 2001, p. 529-530). Early environmental efforts concentrated on forests as they constituted a key natural resource and were presumed to contain the majority of biodiversity (Ali & Hoque, 2008;Barton 2001). As stated by Barton (2001), "Few today realize how fascinated the public found forestry in the late nineteenth century" -it "was the flagship of early environmentalism and a fledgling ecology" (p. 541-542).…”