Recent publications

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Sukriti Issar entitled “Nuisance, Planning and the Common Law in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay” in the journal The Journal of Legal History, published in June 2023. Abstract The literature on the legal transfer of English property law to colonial South Asia has long focused on the agrarian context. Urban property and the built environment remain understudied. This article explores how the common law of nuisance found its way into the workings of a Committee of Buildings in late eighteenth-century Bombay. An analysis of the internal files of the Committee of Buildings […]

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Joost de Moor entitled “Introduction: What Moment for Climate Activism?” in the issue 122 of South Atlantic Quarterly. Extract Since late 2018, the world—Europe, Australia, and North America in particular—have seen a great wave of climate activism. Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Fridays For Future (FFF) in particular brought a large number of (new) climate activists into the streets, until the pandemic brought the mobilization to a halt. The contours of this mobilization have already been described elsewhere (de Moor et al. 2021). Here, we focus on understanding its significance, and […]

Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Charlotte Liotta, Vincent Viguié et Felix Creutzig intitulé “Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities” dans la revue Nature Sustainability. Abstract City-level policies are increasingly recognized as key components of strategies to reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions. However, at a global scale, their total efficiencies, costs and practical feasibility remain unclear. Here we use a spatially explicit monocentric urban economic model, systematically calibrated on 120 cities worldwide, to analyse the impact of four representative policies aimed at mitigating transportation greenhouse gas emissions, also accounting for their economic […]

Nous vous signalons la parution d’une entrée d’encyclopédie rédigée par Sébastien Dutreuil et Pierre Charbonnier intitulée “Philosophy of the Anthropocene” dans l’Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science paru aux éditions Oxford University Press en 2023. Résumé The Anthropocene was proposed in 2000 as the name of a new geological epoch, succeeding to the Holocene, and marked by the influence of humanity as a biological species on its geological environment. It has resonated differently in three major epistemological domains, where the configurations of the debate has varied. For Earth system science, within which the term emerged, the Anthropocene was a keyword […]

Nous vous signalons la parution d’un chapitre de Giacomo Parrinello intitulé “Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch” dans l’ouvrage Environment and Infrastructure paru chez De Gruyter Oldenbourg en 2023. Extrait In 2003, during a heat wave that killed tens of thousands across Europe, the basin of the Po River experienced a major drought. The discharge of the Po reached record lows, with cascading effects for agriculture and energy production. Distress was particularly acute in the delta, where seawater penetrated far inland with resulting contamination of groundwater and irrigation intakes. Thermoelectric power plants located along the Po River lacked cooling […]