Natural Interests

Natural Interests
Author: Caroline Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674968891

Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating floods of 1856 and 1910 in Paris—caused growing worry over the damage wrought by deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The natural world took on new value for France’s urban bourgeoisie, as both a site of aesthetic longing and a destination for tourism. Not only naturalists and scientists but politicians, engineers, writers, and painters took up environmental causes. Imperialism and international dialogue were also instrumental in shaping environmental consciousness, as the unfamiliar climates of France’s overseas possessions changed perceptions of the natural world and influenced conservationist policies. By the early twentieth century, France had adopted innovative environmental legislation, created national and urban parks and nature reserves, and called for international cooperation on environmental questions.

Pour une sociologie de l'environnement

Pour une sociologie de l'environnement
Author: Bernard Kalaora
Publisher: Editions Champ Vallon
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Environmental sociology
ISBN: 9782876739161

La 4e de couv. indique : "L'environnement est de plus en plus médiatisé dans la société française contemporaine. Pour autant un hiatus existe entre cette présence médiatique et la place qu'il occupe dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Seul un petit nombre de chercheurs, sociologues, politistes, juristes, historiens, pour certains engagés, ont fait de la question environnementale leur thème de prédilection sans jamais toutefois réussir à mobiliser leurs communautés respectives. Cette résistance des sciences sociales à se saisir de cette question apparaît comme une spécificité française liée aux préjugés scientifiques, aux découpages institutionnels et aux conflits disciplinaires. L'environnement y est considéré comme un domaine relevant des sciences biologiques, climatiques, écologiques, géomorphologiques et non des sciences sociales. En partie, ces raisons expliquent sa relégation au rang d'objet périphérique. Rien de tel dans les pays anglo-saxons où l'environnement a dans les sciences sociales une place majeure comme processus dynamique d'interaction entre des facteurs naturels et sociaux. Cet ouvrage explore les causes à l'origine de cette relégation de l'environnement en France et les difficultés à faire valoir son existence dans la recherche sociologique et dans l'espace public. Ses auteurs explorent les arcanes de la construction sociale et politique de l'environnement, fouillant les coulisses de la recherche, des ministères et des grands corps d'État pour comprendre ce particularisme français et les conséquences tant cognitives que pratiques qui en découlent. Unique en son genre, ce livre est un outil indispensable à tous ceux, étudiants, chercheurs, experts, décideurs, qui s'interrogent sur les relations entre Société, Politique et Environnement."

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics
Author: Robert Elgie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199669694

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science. The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational concepts for the French case, including chapters on republicanism and social welfare; the second part focuses on thematic large-scale processes, such identity, governance, and globalization; while the third part examines a wide range of issues relating to substantive politics and policy, among which are chapters on political representation, political culture, social movements, economic policy, gender policy, and defense and security policy. The volume brings together established and emerging scholars and seeks to examine the French political system from a comparative perspective. The contributors provide a state-of-the-art review both of the comparative scholarly literature and the study of the French case, making The Oxford Handbook of French Politics an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the foundations of contemporary political life in France.

Cow Up a Tree

Cow Up a Tree
Author: LEARN Group
Publisher: Editions Quae
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9782738009296

Western societies are calling for speedy change in agriculture and the agrifood industries to incorporate new quality criteria into the goods they produce. To promote these changes what scientists must develop are not universally implementable technical solutions, but self-diagnosis methods to be used by agricultural producers and their advisors. They also need to evolve new procedures for research intervention in collective organisations. There is a need for new individual and collective learning and organisation processes based on transdisciplinarity and co-learning among researchers, development professionals, decision makers and farmers. In this book, scientists from ten industrialised countries describe and reflect on their theoretical and practical experience of the different forms of learning they experimented with.

Agri-environmental Policy in the European Union

Agri-environmental Policy in the European Union
Author: Henry Buller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351790889

This title was first published in 2000: This volume provides a detailed examination of agri-environmental policy within ten European states. Individual chapters consider the agricultural and environmental policy contexts within each state and examine the range and significance of agri-environmental policy proposed in addition to their spatial and territorial impact, their policy-making implications and their consequences for the structures, institutions and actors of national farming policy both across and within national borders. Drawing from ten national profiles and the data sets provided, the book provides a comparative analysis of implementation trends, filling a gap in the literature on this topic. Taking European legislation as its starting point, the comparative section of the book examines how Member States have responded to EU imperatives in their budgetary commitments, in their implementation strategies and in the policy outputs that result. The study identifies similarities across European nations in the territorial and agricultural focus of agri-environmental policy and draws attention to the alternative.

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1970
Genre: Ecology
ISBN:

Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering
Author: Tarek Sobh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2007-09-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402052634

Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS’05). The proceedings are a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, systems sciences and engineering, information technology, parallel and distributed computing and web-based programming. SCSS’05 was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE’05) (www. cisse2005. org), the World’s first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE’05 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. CISSE’05 received 255 research paper submissions and the final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. The concept and format of CISSE’05 were very exciting and ground-breaking. The PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live presentations over the web had been available for 3 weeks prior to the start of the conference for all registrants, so they could choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and were part of the permanent CISSE archive, which also included all power point presentations and papers. SCSS’05 provided a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering.

Politicization of Ecological Issues

Politicization of Ecological Issues
Author: Gabrielle Bouleau
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2019-08-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1119649625

The legitimacy of environmental policies is an issue of increasing concern for analysts. Ecological stakes are deemed to be global, but global public decisions are rare and implemented with difficulty. Dissensus prevails on environmental ethics and there is little evidence of any greening of policy tools. The global framing of the environment fails to account for how people relate to the ecological realities which surround them. Rather than placing the environment at a distance, Politicization of Ecological Issues advocates for building legitimacy from people’s perceptions of singular forms and patterns in their environment. Based on scholarly literature in political ecology and empirical cases of water policy in Europe, the book shows how the qualification of environmental realities has been politicized and translated into motives for public action. Similarly, it argues that theoretical debates addressing the ecological crisis are not only dealing with ideas, but rather advocating for specific environmental forms that are deemed to be motives of hope or worry.

The Coming Authoritarian Ecology

The Coming Authoritarian Ecology
Author: Fabrice Flipo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 178630242X

The book examines ecological issues such as climate change and biodiversity, articulating local and global scales, and short and long term perspectives, questioning what "development" and "progress" are. The goal is to show how diverging points of view are conflictingly articulated to one another, in a political ideology perspective. This perspective, which is close to the main actor's point of view, allows displacement of the usual analysis, and offers a new synthesis.