New Publications

In an FT [1] review of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, and Utopia or Bust: a guide to the present crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, Martin Sandbu raises a point about the viewing of difficult and...

The Guardian reports that a study sponsored by the UK government has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Fairtrade in East Africa.  Generally, the study found, wages were higher on farms that were larger, commercial and not Fairtrade-certified.  Even comparing...

... would you spend it on WL (F)'s new book?  Me neither, even though it has been digitally water-marked.   The book, according to the normally reliable SDRN, is "... published as part of the award-winning ‘Climate Change Management Series’, led by...

Yesterday, along with everyone on the EAUC e-list, I received a summary of a UNESCO commissioned report that "presents a critical review of sustainable development in Higher Education, mapping change over the period, identifying key trends and outcomes".  As well as...

The Higher Education Academy's first Green Acdemy change programme was launched in 2011 to help higher education institutions to embed education for sustainable development (ESD) into the overall student experience.  This second evaluation report (the first was carried out in 2012)...

For those who took Philip Larkin's gloomy text about the state of the country(side) too much to heart, fear not.  As AN Wilson noted in his poetry of place book, England, for Eland Books, this country has been going to the dogs from at least...

In celebration of Earth Day, Berghahn Journals are giving free access to a special virtual issue that focuses on climate change.  It features a collection of articles from eight journals spanning multiple disciplines which deliver scholarly and informed opinion on...

The other day, the International New York Times has a feature on (international) ESD.  It begins: "From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom.  Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the...

Sadly, however, the OECD only praises them for minimising gender differences in attainment.  Boys and girls now do equally badly, it seems.  This is not what equal opportunities was supposed to be about. I searched the report in vain for...

Every once in a while, some Think Tank or other publishes a report (the contents of which it usually takes pains to accept no responsibility for) about the brain / green washing of delicate young minds by politically-motivated teachers and...