In response to the increasing loss of native vegetation and biodiversity, a growing number of countries have adopted “offsetting” policies that seek to balance local habitat destruction by restoring, enhancing and/or protecting similar but separate habitat. Although these policies often have a stated aim of producing a “net gain” or “no net loss” in environmental benefits, it is challenging to ...

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the current saiga antelope die off in Kazakhstan each represent very real and difficult to manage public or veterinary health crises. They also illustrate the importance of stable and funded surveillance and sound policy for intervention or disease control. While these two events highlight extreme cases of infectious disease (Ebola) or (possible) en...

Political ecology seeks to address notable weaknesses in the social sciences that consider how human societyand the environment shape each other over time. Considering questions of ideology and scientific discourse,power and knowledge, and issues of conservation and environmental history, political ecology offers analternative to technocratic approaches to policy prescriptions and e...

To combat Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning attacks and exploitation of the DNS as amplifier in denial of service (DoS) attacks, many recursive DNS resolvers are configured as “closed” and refuse to answer queries made by hosts outside of their organization. In this work, we present a technique to induce DNS queries within an organization, using the organization’s email service and the S...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Environmental economics Ecological economics Economic sociology of the environment Regulation theory Social movement theory Environmental policy Ecological modernisation The vast majority of approaches in environmental economics attribute the current ecological crisis to the fact that, from its inception, the industrial economic system was founded on premises tha...