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Spinifex Press Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy
Book SynopsisDo we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are destroying the earth with their insistence on profit. But what point is profit on a dead and silent planet? In this enlightening yet devastating book, Susan Hawthorne writes with clarity and incisiveness on how patriarchy is wreaking destruction on the planet and on communities. The twin mantras of globalisation and growth expounded by the neoliberalism that has hijacked the planet are revealed in all their shabby deception. Backed by meticulous research, the author shows how so-called advances in technology are, like a Trojan horse, used to mask sinister political agendas that sacrifice the common good for the shallow profiteering of corporations and mega-rich individuals. The biotechnologists see the lure of cure, rising share prices and profits. She details how women, lesbians, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, the poor, refugees and the very earth itself are being damaged by the crisis of patriarchy that is sucking everyone into its vortex. Importantly, this precise and insightful volume also shows what is needed to get ourselves out of this spiral of destruction: a radical feminist approach with compassion and empathy at its core. Shame is an emotion of the powerless because they cannot change the rules. The book shows a way out of the vortex: it is now up to the collective imagination and action of people everywhere to take up the challenges Susan Hawthorne shows are needed. This is a vital book for a world in crisis and should be read by everyone who cares about our future.Table of ContentsPreface: The Year of the Pandemic Introduction A note on truth A note on words Key terms in this book Chapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the Planet Appropriation of politics How has criticism of globalisation shifted sides? The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunity Understanding neoliberalism Resistance Markets, work and the Universal Basic Income Chapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities Feminism Ruling classes Infantilisation Colonisation Harm minimisation Normalisation Erasure The technology of bodies Money The personal is political Chapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men’s Patriotic Wars against Women’s Intimate Lives War and the institution of heterosexuality intersect War and masculinity, torture and heterosexuality Intimacy and war To counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily life Postmodern war Money What would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety? Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and Women What is bioprospecting? What is biopiracy? Biopiracy of earth-based resources Biopiracy and value Biopiracy of body-based resources Separation Microcolonialism of Indigenous bodies Gynocolonialism Bodies with disabilities Heterocolonialism Intergenerational sustainability and cultural integrity Money What practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism? Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and Trauma Being homeless in the body Dispossession Land as relationship Land as relationship in prehistory Trauma Refusing refugees Money What systems could be put in place to end planetary theft? Chapter Six: Colonisation, Erasure and Torture: Wars against Lesbians Globalisation The politics of shame The phallus and the penis Origins of patriarchy and violence against lesbians Nationalism and exile Global recolonisation Lesbian refugees Money Guidelines for officials interviewing lesbian refugees Chapter Seven:Breaking the Spirit of the Women's Liberation Movement: The War against Biology Trans v cis Trans vs intersex Trans vs lesbian Trans vs women Women's Circus Oppression Postmodernism and queer theory Silence Trauma Hatred and shame Breaking the spirit Theft of a future and a past Commodification Strategies used by the trans lobby Violence against trans people Institutionalising trans laws Money for astroturfing and transgender causes Why sexual orientation not gender identity? Chapter Eight:Breaking the Spirit of the Planet: Climate Catastrophe Breaking the spirit of the planet Temperate zone: bushfires Dry zone: drought and water wars Wet zone: coral death, cyclones, floods Money Breaking the heart of the planet Chapter Nine: Sovereignty and the Spirit of Nature Uncultivated Sovereignty
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Spinifex Press Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and
Book SynopsisOffering an exciting ride into how the world could be, this book is the one we have been waiting for. Feminists have long been saying we could do life differently, here is the local and global exploration of what needs to change, what must go and how together we can make a new reality. A visionary book with a focus on local and global politics and social movements, Wild Politics presents a powerful critique of global western culture. Susan Hawthorne unpicks the structures of power and knowledge, law and international trade rules, as well as probing issues that intimately affect our daily lives. Wild Politics concludes with a compelling vision for a world inspired by biodiversityTrade ReviewA work of breathtaking erudition. —Diane BellTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Permissions Preface to the 2022 edition INTRODUCTION A Feminist Critique of Western Global Culture Cultural Logic Decolonising Scholarship Biodiversity and Seeds The Seed of Culture Weaving the Strands Defining the Wild CHAPTER ONE The Principle of Diversity Beginnings Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis Feminism Change Creating Feminist Knowledge Who is the Knower? Standpoint Theory Analysis Synthesis Dissociation Associative Thinking CHAPTER TWO Power and Knowledge: Global Monotony or Local Diversity? Power The Power of Violence The Power of Reward The Power of Backlash The Power of Obstacles The Power of Systems The Power of Attraction The Power of Attitudes Knowledge Assimilation and Appropriation A Clash of Knowledge Systems Not seeing The Perceptual Gap How Knowledge is Valued Cultural Homogeneity In Defence of Diversity CHAPTER THREE One Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies? The Logic of Neoclassical Economics How Women Are (ac)Counted Economic Homogeneity and Globalisation Decolonising Economics Feminist Economics Ecological Economics Toward a Wild Economics CHAPTER FOUR Land as Relationship and Land as Possession Land as resource or relationship? Wilderness Land Dealing with Waste "Freeing" the Land, Enclosing the Commons Feminist conceptions of land Indigenous conceptions of land Land as possession Tourism: land and wilderness as commodity Urban land Urban land as wild space Steps to developing a wild politics of land CHAPTER FIVE Farming, Fishing and Forestry: from subsistence to terminator technology Farming in Kenya and Nigeria Forestry in Lithuania, the USA, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Fishing in the Pacific Digitised and globalised farming: what the future holds The Kyoto Protocol, plantation forests and Terminator Trees Fishing wild fish to feed domesticated fish The commodification of "everything" Women as keepers of ecosystems CHAPTER SIX Production, consumption and work: global and local Production and disparity Consumption and disparity Work and disparity Global production Global consumption Global work Local production Local consumption Local work Military as gross producer and consumer Conclusion CHAPTER SEVEN Monocultures and multilateral trade rules Patents Multilateral trade agreements and the shape of international law Multilateral trade negotiations and the convention on biological diversity The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Food security The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs) Human Genome Project (HGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) Conclusion CHAPTER EIGHT Wild Politics Wild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years Appendix Tables 1. World’s 100 largest economic entities (2001) 2. Companies, countries and name changes 3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversity Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography
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Otago University Press Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature
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The Golden Sufi Centre Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
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Smithsonian Books Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity
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Suteki Creative What Wonders Await Outdoors
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Chapel Street Editions Letters from the Future: How New Brunswickers
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Otago University Press Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing
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Massey University Press Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questions of organization, purpose, and agency. For two millennia, the vegetable soul, nutrition, and reproduction were commonly used to understand basic life and connect it to “higher” animal and vegetable life. Cartesian dualism and mechanism destroyed this bridge and left biology without an organizing principle until Darwin. Modern biology parallels Aristotelian vegetable life-concepts, but remains incompatible with the animal, rational, subjective, and spiritual life-concepts that developed through the centuries. Recent discoveries call for a second look at Aristotle’s ideas – though not their medieval descendants. Life remains an active, chemical process whose cause, identity, and purpose is self-perpetuation.Trade Review“Life Concepts, Mix (Harvard) provides a comprehensive treatise of the soul, emphasizing nutritive or vegetable souls, from the concept's beginnings with Homer and pre-Socratic philosophers to significant development of the disparate views of Plato and Aristotle. … As a philosophical and theological work, Mix provides a meaningful and engaging account of a deep, enduring subject.” (Z. B. Johnson, Choice, Vol. 56 (8), April, 2019)Table of Contents1. Vegetable Souls? 2. Greek Life – Psyche and Early Life-Concepts 3. Strangely Moved – Appetitive Souls in Plato 4. Three Causes in One – Biological Explanation in Aristotle 5. Life in Action – Nutritive Souls in Aristotle 6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought 7. The Breath of Life – Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures 8. Life after Life – Spiritual Life in Christianity 9. Invisible Seeds – Life-Concepts in Augustine 10. Aristotle Returns – A Second Medieval Synthesis 11. Life Divided – Vegetable Life in Aquinas 12. Mechanism Displaces the Soul 13. Divided Hopes – Physics versus Metaphysics 14. Ghosts in the Machine – Vitalism 15. The Same and Different – Early Theories of Evolution 16. Vegetable Significance – Evolution by Natural Selection 17. “Vegetables” versus Modern Plants 18. Counting Lives- Regulators and Replicators 19. What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society’s failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethical, social, organizational and cultural dynamics to blame for this global lack of action. The book features eleven research projects from four different countries and is divided in two parts, the first highlighting novel methodologies, the second presenting new findings. Contributors to the first part show how a ‘deep listening’ approach to research can reveal the anxieties, tensions, contradictions, frames and narratives that contribute to people’s experiences, and the many ways climate change and other environmental risks are imagined through metaphor, imagery and dreams. Using detailed interview extracts drawn from politicians, scientists and activists as well as ordinary people, the second part of the book examines the many different ways in which we both avoid and square up to this gathering disaster, and the many faces of alarm, outrage, denial and indifference this involves. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Paul Hoggett.- Part I: Mostly Methods.- Chapter 2: New Methods for Investigating New Dangers; Renee Lertzman.- Chapter 3: Children & Climate Change: Exploring Children’s Feelings about Climate Change using Free Association Narrative Interview Methodology; Caroline Hickman.- Chapter 4: An Integrative Methodology for Investigating Lived Experience and the Psychosocial Factors Influencing Environmental Cognition and Behaviour; Nadine Andrews.- Chapter 5: Emotional Work as a Necessity: A Psychosocial Analysis of Low-Carbon Energy Collaboration Stories; Rosie Robison.- Chapter 6: Climate Change, Social Dreaming and Art: Thinking the Unthinkable; Julian Manley & Wendy Hollway.- Chapter 7: Researching Climate Engagement: Collaborative Conversations and Consciousness Change; Sally Gillespie.- Part II: Mostly Findings.- Chapter 8: Emotions, Reflexivity and the Long Haul: What we do About how we Feel About Climate Change; Jo Hamilton.- Chapter 9: Leading with Nature in Mind; Rembrandt Zegers.- Chapter 10: Attitudes to Climate Change in some English Local Authorities: Varying Sense of Agency in Denial and Hope; Gill Westcott.- Chapter 11:We Have to Talk About….Climate Change; Robert Tollemache.- Chapter 12: Engaging with Climate Change: Comparing the Cultures of Science and Activism; Ro Randall & Paul Hoggett.- Chapter 13: Conclusion; Paul Hoggett.
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Springer International Publishing AG Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife
Book SynopsisThe North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices. Increasingly, the American public opposes the killing of wild animals for recreation, trophies and profit but has little—if any—knowledge of the Model. The purpose of this book is to empower the public with knowledge about the NAM’s insufficiencies and to help expedite the shift from lethal to compassionate conservation, an endeavour urgently needed particularly under the threats of climate change, human population growth and accelerating plant and animal species extinctions.With a focus on trapping, this book exposes the NAM's belief in human supremacy and its consequences for wild animals and their ecosystems, the same value that is driving the ongoing global destruction of nature and accelerating species extinction. Motivated by a deep concern for wild animals who suffer and whose lives are extinguished each year by 'sportsmen and women', this book exposes the violent treatment of wild animals inherent in governmental-promoted hunting and trapping programs, while emphasizing the importance of empathy and compassion for other animals in conservation and in our lives.Trade Review“In her new book about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, Anja Heister offers a historical view of wildlife management … . Heister’s work should be added to any curricula for students of wildlife management as well as history, as her work adds richness and depth to our shared knowledge and will teach critical thinking rather than train the next generation of NAM-based thinkers. … this book is certainly helping.” (Julie Marshall, The Denver Post, denverpost.com, December 30, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Animal Standpoint.- Chapter 3: The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 4: The Existing Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.- Chapter 5: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation’s Selective Use of Ethics to Support Exploitation of Wild Animals.- Chapter 6: NAM’s Science and Impacts of Policies in Pacific and Mountain West Regions.- Chapter 7: Crime Scenes in the Woods: The NAM and Cruelty against Wild Animals.- Chapter 8: Abandoning Human Entitlement: Empathy, Compassion, and Rights for Nonhuman Animals.
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Birkhauser Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the
Book SynopsisNever before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.
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Lars Muller Publishers Our World to Change!
Book SynopsisTo explain the desperate state of our world, its functioning and malfunctioning, is the ambitious goal of this book by Ruedi and Vera Baur. To achieve this goal they have joined forces with the globalization-critical organization Attac, which has provided them with the data. The publication is a formal homage to the sociologist Otto Neurath and the graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who created the Isotype (International Education System by Typographical Images) in the 1920s. Ruedi and Vera Baur also recycled a figurine system originally developed for Manifesta 11, the European Biennial for Contemporary Art in Zurich. Our World to Change! not only explains figures related to economics, finance, ecology, nutrition, and immigration, but also presents suggestions and alternatives from specialists in these fields and from Attac. Visually deciphering the functions of our world system helps to show that another world is possible and necessary.
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Park Books Towards Territorial Transition: A plea to large
Book SynopsisTowards Territorial Transition presents new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in architecture and urban design towards decarbonisation and ecological transition. The contributions investigate interactions between ecological and resource-related systems and landscapes. They also explore potential solutions to address and deal with the dramatic threats posed by climate change and the emerging social crisis. The book introduces six basic terms of territorial transition — territory, scale, transition, resource, platform, and uncertainty — and visualises them with spatial strategies elaborated at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Versailles and at Graz University of Technology. Moreover, it presents a selection of transnational projects of territorial transition, such as Luxembourg in Transition (Luxembourg / France), Grand Genève (Switzerland / France), and Top Noordrand (Brussels / Flanders).
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Springer International Publishing AG A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton
Book SynopsisThis book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years. In landmark works such as Toward Unity Among Environmentalists and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, Norton charted a new and highly productive course for an applied environmental philosophy, one fully engaged with the natural and social sciences as well as the management professions. A Sustainable Philosophy gathers together a distinguished group of scholars and professionals from a wide array of fields (including environmental philosophy, natural resource management, environmental economics, law, and public policy) to engage Norton’s work and its legacy for our shared environmental future. A study in the power of intellectual legacy and the real-world influence of philosophy, the book will be of great interest scholars and students in environmental philosophy, public policy and management, and environmental and sustainability studies. By considering the value and impact of Norton’s body of work it will also chart a course for the next generation of pragmatic environmental philosophers and sustainability scholars grappling with questions of environmental value, knowledge, and practice in a rapidly changing world.Trade Review“Carl Griffin and Briony McDonagh have made an important contribution to the field of British protest studies. … in my view this is a very well-researched, informative and deeply committed collection, and it undoubtedly strengthens and enhances what is already a venerable canon of work on British protest history.” (Peter Jones, Family & Community History, Vol. 22 (2), July, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Norton on Sustainability as Such (Paul B. Thompson).- Chapter 2. Ecological Sustainability (J. Baird Callicott).- Chapter 3. Norton vs Callicott on Interpreting Aldo Leopold: A Jamesian View (Piers H.G. Stephens).- Chapter 4. The Language of Environmental Ethics: Escaping The Emotivist Trap (Daniel W. Bromley).- Chapter 5. Environmental Pragmatism, Decision Theory, and Systematic Conservation Planning (Sahotra Sarkar).- Chapter 6. Values Pluralism and “Sustainability” (Richard Howarth).- Chapter 7. Shared Values and Scientific Knowledge in Environmental Decision-making (Evelyn Brister).- Chapter 8. Adaptive Management as a Theory of Intergenerational Justice? (Clark Wolf).- Chapter 9. Leadership for Sustainability (R. Bruce Hull).- Chapter 10. The Power of Process: A Role for Norton’s Deliberative Approach to Sustainability in Building Constituencies for Change (Paul D. Hirsch) etc.
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Verlag Herder Christliche Umweltethik: Grundlagen Und Zentrale
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Green Beat: Gary Snyder und die moderne
Book SynopsisGary Snyder (born 1930) is one of the most important poets of the 20th century. The Pulitzer Prize winner's work includes poems, prose, scientific essays and more. Snyder has been the subject of much academic work over the past five decades, and his writing and environmental activism have been recognized by both the public and politicians. As the central figure of the American subcultures, he mainly influenced the beat generation and the hippie movement; it is also associated with more recent phenomena such as the back-to-the-land movement or eco-villages. Snyder is a figurehead and co-founder of American bioregionalism and the environmental and natural philosophy "Deep Ecology": Both are of central importance for the modern environmental movement. Martin Spenger's biography tracks the interfaces between Gary Snyder's life and the major environmental and sociopolitical events in the United States.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Moritz Schlick. Naturphilosophische Schriften
Book SynopsisVorwort der Herausgeber.- Einleitung.- Anhang zur Einleitung: Nachlassforschung zu verschiedenen Stücken aus Schlicks Wiener Zeit.- Einführung in die Naturphilosophie/Naturphilosophie.- Naturphilosophie [1927].- Gegenwartsfragen der Naturphilosophie (1934).- Naturphilosophie [1932/33 & 1936].- Anhang: Naturphilosophie (Notizen II).- Anhang: Literaturverzeichnis, Moritz Schlick Bibliographie, Aufbau und Editionsprinzipien der Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe, Personenregister, Sachregister.
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Gegenwart Und Zukunft Sozial-Okologischer
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JOVIS Verlag Going Green - Experiencing the Ecomobile
Book SynopsisA neighborhood turns car and motorcycle-free. Its residents try out an ecomobile lifestyle: they walk, cycle, use small electric vehicles, try an autonomous minibus and the new tramway. This is what happened in the Hamasen district of Kaohsiung, second-largest city on Taiwan. Ecomobility is economical and environmentally friendly. Ecomobility is the pre-requisite for a living city with streets for people, instead of cars. But how does ecomobility actually feel? How do new mobility habits emerge? How do residents experience their neighbourhood free of cars and motorcycles? Going Green documents the mise-en-scène in the framework of the EcoMobility World Festival organised by the city of Kaohsiung in partnership with ICLEI in October 2017. The authors and photographer accompany the citizens on their trips through the city both before and after the ecomobility experiment. The publication shows these stories, and thereby conveys the fascination of a new, future urban mobility. Text in English and Chinese.
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River Books Homo Gaia
Book SynopsisDuring childhood holidays by the sea, the pristine Long Beach was full of treasures from the deep, sharks and dolphins swam near the shore, and the sea and air was vibrant with life and energy. Homo Gaia is written by lifelong environmentalist and citizen scientist, who wishes to pass on a thin strand of hope to the next generation. After a five year project on nature connection at the Greenworld foundation, Thailand, where she was chairperson, was halted by Covid, Oy decided to write a book instead. Showing how others can also experience the wondrous world that surrounds us, she weaves in her own experiences with information and insights from scientists.
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Dattsons Space for Sustainable Development
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Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Environment and Self Endangered Man
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Communalism Press Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German
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Communalism Press Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology And The
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Communalism Press Political Ecology: The Climate Crisis and a New
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AMOR RADICAL
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ListLab What is Landscape
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Ecological transformation in Western Ghats
Book SynopsisThe establishment of forest-based industries, and the subsequent deforestation and water pollution also threatened the state's ecological balance. Similarly, the expansion of tourism industry, sand mining, industrial pollution, usage of pesticides and water exploitation also endangered the environment.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE FOURTH LION: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR GOPALKRISHNA
Book SynopsisGopalkrishna Gandhi has been an administrator, diplomat, author, and public intellectual of distinction for over four decades. His writings have spanned diverse genres, showcasing both his deep scholarship as well as a profound engagement with issues of politics, history,iterature, and culture. He is respected not only for his statesmanship, but also admired as an exemplar of a fading ideal of our republic, one that placed ethics and the pursuit of the common good at the core of our publicife. The Fourthion, a festschrift in honour of Gopalkrishna Gandhi, consists of twenty-six essays contributed by individuals drawn from various walks ofife and from across the globe. Organized into thematic sectionsLiterature and Culture, History, Environment, Politics and Public Affairs, and Memoirsthe essays speak to concerns, interests and sensibilities that animate ourives.
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NUS Press Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia's
Book SynopsisThe serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands.This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.Trade Review"...provides scholarship that elucidates the complexities of oil palm production, and the challenges presented by peatland agriculture as well as peatland restoration."-The Jakarta Post
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