https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Origins-of-Environmental-History https://booksandideas.net/The-Origins-of-Environmental-History 2026-04-28T07:03:34Z text/html en Kevin Bouillot History environment nature anthropology science Cairn.info symbole <p>Our understanding of nature differs from that of the Greeks and Romans. From the “month of the ox” to “the forest goddess,” the ancients never thought to separate humans from the flora and fauna around them.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-World-of-Waste https://booksandideas.net/A-World-of-Waste 2026-03-31T08:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Philippe Pierron Philosophy environment nature technics Cairn.info <p>We would rather not see or even think about our waste, but it has a lot to tell us about our habits, our lives, and more importantly, about what we are doing to our world today.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Dark-Side-of-Telescopes https://booksandideas.net/The-Dark-Side-of-Telescopes 2026-01-27T07:30:00Z text/html en Florian Mathieu Society environment science environmentalism astrophysics <p>Drawing on a socio-historical study of the construction of astronomical observatories on the island of Hawai‘i, Pascal Marichalar shows that scientific policies can no longer be considered separately from their ecological and social impacts.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Relief-is-Life https://booksandideas.net/Relief-is-Life 2025-06-12T06:12:28Z text/html en Morgan Jouvenet environment environmentalism geography Science Cairn.info <p>We talk about the Earth without truly understanding it. An overview of recent knowledge about the “Earth system” and its concerning state invites us to promote a new way of looking at the environment and the political approaches required.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Volga-and-Russian-geopolitics https://booksandideas.net/The-Volga-and-Russian-geopolitics 2025-04-22T06:00:00Z text/html en Laurent Touchart History Russia environment land settlement geography industrialisation Cairn.info <p>The longest river in Europe bears the imprint of Soviet history. From dams to fishing by way of industrialization, it lies at the heart of the continental upheaval that is unfolding before us.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Organic-pioneers https://booksandideas.net/Organic-pioneers 2025-03-20T06:00:00Z text/html en Matthieu Calame Society environment environmentalism agriculture Cairn.info <p>Throughout the nineteenth century, ecological currents in the agricultural world promoted organic farming and the defense of small producers. The story of these “ecological farmers” sheds light on the forward-looking contract forged between agriculture and society.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Mines-to-the-rescue-of-the-planet https://booksandideas.net/Mines-to-the-rescue-of-the-planet 2025-03-04T06:30:00Z text/html en Romain Mainieri International environment industry climate change Cairn.info <p>To achieve energy transition, we will need to extract as much metal in the next 20 years as we have done in the entire history of mankind. This is ‘one of the great paradoxes of our times'.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Who-rules-the-blue-planet https://booksandideas.net/Who-rules-the-blue-planet 2025-01-28T06:30:00Z text/html en Guillaume Vuillemey International state environment trade ocean Cairn.info <p>Maritime spaces are the focus of the major economic, ecological, and geopolitical challenges of our time. Lest they become the site of routine legal violations (ranging from pollution to overfishing), a government of the seas is necessary.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Does-the-Law-Protect-the-Environment https://booksandideas.net/Does-the-Law-Protect-the-Environment 2024-09-26T08:55:00Z text/html en Sarah Vanuxem Society environment crime law Cairn.info <p>Is the law doing enough to protect the environment? Through an analysis of the concept of environmental crime, Grégory Salle shows that legal provisions are limited by a social vision that favors the technical and capitalist exploitation of nature.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Democratic-environments https://booksandideas.net/Democratic-environments 2023-12-14T08:30:00Z text/html en Maxime Gaborit Politics democracy environment deliberation Cairn.info <p>How do environmental concerns affect forms of democratic participation? Comparing a deliberative process in Poitou to citizens' mobilization in Ardèche, an ethnographic study examines how citizens engage in politics and conflict.</p>