Atlas de la mondialisation. Une seule terre, des mondes

Atlas de la mondialisation. Une seule terre, des mondes
Author: Laurent Carroué
Publisher: Autrement
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-09-09T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 2746756161

La mondialisation n’abolit ni l’histoire, ni le temps, ni l’espace, les distances ou les territoires. Elle se construit et évolue chaque jour. Les 90 cartes et infographies, mises à jour pour cette deuxième édition, dévoilent les enjeux du système économique et géopolitique mondial et dessinent les nouvelles logiques d’organisation. • Les origines historiques de la mondialisation, et les étapes de la mise en place des mondialisations successives, depuis les grandes découvertes jusqu’à la mondialisation financière. • Le fonctionnement du système productif mondial. • Le rôle des territoires – centres, interfaces, périphéries et marges – et les stratégies des acteurs de la mondialisation. • Les grands enjeux d’avenir au coeur des débats pour un développement durable dans un monde plus solidaire et démocratique. En variant les échelles, les documents de cet atlas rendent le monde plus intelligible pour faire de chacun d’entre nous des citoyens éclairés et responsables.

The Sustainable City XVI

The Sustainable City XVI
Author: S. Hernandez
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1784664812

Various aspects of the urban environment, with an emphasis on solutions leading towards sustainability, are the focus of the research contained in this volume. The included papers were presented at the 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. The task of researchers is to improve the capacity to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the urban environment. Any investigation or planning in a city ought to consider the relationships between the parts and their connections with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of energy-matter, people, goods, information and other resources) are fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of today’s cities. Coastal areas and coastal cities are an important area covered by this book, as they have some specific features. Their strategic location facilitates transportation and the development of related activities, but this requires the existence of large ports, with the corresponding increase in maritime and road traffic and all of the inherent negative effects, and can be directly affected by the rise in sea level. This requires the development of well-planned and managed urban environments, not only for reasons of efficiency and economics but also to avoid inflicting environmental degradation that causes the deterioration of natural resources, quality of life and human health. Urban agriculture and food sovereignty are crucial issues that are included due to their impact on city life. The scale of modern food production has created and exacerbated many vulnerabilities and the feeding of cities is now infinitely more complex. In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion in initiatives and projects exploring innovative methods and processes for sustainable food production. These projects are mainly focused on providing alternative models that shift the power back from the global food system to communities and farmers improving social cohesion, health and wellbeing. These initiatives have demonstrated that urban agriculture has the potential to transform our living environment towards ecologically sustainable and healthy cities.

Terra 2008

Terra 2008
Author: Leslie Rainer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1606060430

Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Translation and Globalization

Translation and Globalization
Author: Michael Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113513829X

Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation. The Internet, new technology, machine translation and the emergence of a worldwide, multi-million dollar translation industry have dramatically altered the complex relationship between translators, language and power. In this book, Michael Cronin looks at the changing geography of translation practice and offers new ways of understanding the role of the translator in globalized societies and economies. Drawing on examples and case-studies from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, the author argues that translation is central to debates about language and cultural identity, and shows why consideration of the role of translation and translators is a necessary part of safeguarding and promoting linguistic and cultural diversity.

Reducing Inequalities

Reducing Inequalities
Author: Rémi Genevey
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 8179935302

The reduction of inequalities within and between countries stands as a policy goal, and deserves to take centre stage in the design of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed during the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.The 2013 edition of A Planet for Life represents a unique international initiative grounded on conceptual and strategic thinking, and – most importantly – empirical experiments, conducted on five continents and touching on multiple realities. This unprecedented collection of works proposes a solid empirical approach, rather than an ideological one, to inform future debate.The case studies collected in this volume demonstrate the complexity of the new systems required to accommodate each country's specific economic, political and cultural realities. These systems combine technical, financial, legal, fiscal and organizational elements with a great deal of applied expertise, and are articulated within a clear, well-understood, growth- and job-generating development strategy.Inequality reduction does not occur by decree; neither does it automatically arise through economic growth, nor through policies that equalize incomes downward via ill conceived fiscal policies. Inequality reduction involves a collaborative effort that must motivate all concerned parties, one that constitutes a genuine political and social innovation, and one that often runs counter to prevailing political and economic forces.

Land of Life

Land of Life
Author: Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1969
Genre:
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Hungry Planet

Hungry Planet
Author: Faith d' Aluisio
Publisher: Material World
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781580088695

Provides an overview of what families around the world eat by featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries with a week's supply of food.

The Geographical Tradition

The Geographical Tradition
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1993-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631185864

The Geographical Tradition dpresents the history of an essentially contested tradition. By examining a series of key episodes in geography's history since 1400, Livingstone argues that the messy contingencies of history are to be preferred to the manufactured idealizations of the standard chronicles. Throughout, the development of geographical thought and practice is portrayed against the background of the broader social and intellectual contexts of the times. Among the topics investigated are geography during the Age of Reconnaissance, the Scientific Revolution and The Englightenment; subsequently geography's relationships with Darwinism, imperialism, regionalism, and quantification are elaborated.

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
Author: Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1780337531

In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Author: Giovanna Borradori
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226066657

The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.