Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics

This companion piece to Susan Hayward’s Film Ecology focuses on ecology documentaries produced in the first 20 years of the new millennium (2000–19).

Using Kate Raworth’s regenerative economic theoretical model as set out in Doughnut Economics, this book examines 57 films emanating from Europe and the 4 areas of concern they raise about energy production, pollution and waste

management, agribusiness, disrupted ecosystems and the migratory f low. These ecology documentaries make explicit the d...