The Nature Of Power
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Author | : Erica Schoenberger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135051585 |
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – Nature, Choice and Social Power examines the form that social power takes and how it can harm the environment and hinder our efforts to act in our own best interests. The case studies challenge conventional wisdoms about why gold is valuable, why the internal combustion engine triumphed, and when and why suburbs sprawled. The book shows how the power of individuals, the power of classes, the power of the market and the power of the state at different times and in different ways were critical to setting us on a path to environmental degradation. It also challenges conventional wisdoms about what we need to do now. Rather than reducing consumption and shrinking from outcomes we don’t want, it proposes growing towards outcomes we do want. We invested massive resources in creating our problems; it will take equally large investments to fix them. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book is underpinned with a political economy framework and addresses how we should understand our responsibility to the environment and to each other as individuals within a large and impersonal system.
Author | : Dean Tjosvold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521878594 |
Capitalizing on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years, this book explores both the positive and negative aspects of power, identifying opportunities and threats. It shows how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations.
Author | : Andy Bruno |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110714471X |
This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.
Author | : Robert S Ball |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781011922406 |
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Author | : Joachim Radkau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521851297 |
Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.
Author | : Donald M. Davis |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0486152154 |
This captivating book explains some of the most fascinating ideas of mathematics to nonspecialists, focusing on non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, and fractals. Numerous illustrations. 1993 edition.
Author | : R. J. Rummel |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412836302 |
This is a book on conflict and consensus aimed at the general reader. In active, plain and direct language it makes the seemingly abstract and complex issues simple. Its view of peace is well-rounded, tough-minded, one that well understands the difficult world of social and personal violence and conflict. At its heart is a simple finding: "to wage peace we need to foster freedom." The human race can best achieve that simple aim by "leaving people alone to form their own communities." "The Conflict Helix "avoids the ambiguous in favor of the categorical; the hedged, qualified statement for the direct Rummel presents a series of basic principles, each concerning an aspect of conflict and peace - psychological, interpersonal, societal, international - and each aspect having its own master principle. These principles are not mere organizational props, but are deeply theoretical and empirically fundamental. The volume expresses the core ideas, results and conclusions of Rummel's major, five-volume work on "Understanding Conflict and War. "In discarding technical material and focusing on principles and meaning, "The Conflict Helix "presents an executive summary of a lifetime of work in a digestible form. In light of recent events in Europe, Asia and Latin American this work takes on a special poignancy for the developing no less than the industrialized worlds. Hence, this book should be of value to the general reader as well as professionals and advanced students of international politics.
Author | : Joe H. Slate |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0738715662 |
In this hectic world of appointments and to-do lists, we need a reminder that peace is all around us-in the sky, in a garden, and in our own backyard. Connecting to the Power of Nature offers a wonderful plan to help you explore and reconnect with nature for a richer, more empowered life. From sifting sand through your fingers to gazing at the stars to meditating with animals, Joe Slate offers many enjoyable and inspiring step-by-step activities and meditations. You'll learn natural and effective ways to cope with grief, reduce stress, get insight into problems, tap into inner strength, and accomplish your highest goals, all through slowing down and mindfully connecting with nature. Create a profound link to nature's amazing power-and discover within yourself a boundless capacity for spiritual growth, better health and rejuvenation, and enlightenment.
Author | : Benjamin Kidd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vaclav Smil |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262326930 |
The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.” —Bill Gates In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses. Smil shows that careful quantification, critical appraisals, and revealing comparisons of power densities make possible a deeper understanding of the ways we harness, convert, and use energies. Conscientious assessment of power densities, he argues, proves particularly revealing when contrasting the fossil fuel–based energy system with renewable energy conversions. Smil explains that modern civilization has evolved as a direct expression of the high power densities of fossil fuel extraction. He argues that our inevitable (and desirable) move to new energy arrangements involving conversions of lower-density renewable energy sources will require our society—currently dominated by megacities and concentrated industrial production—to undergo a profound spatial restructuring of its energy system.