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Author | : David W. Orr |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1597267007 |
The author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory.This volume brings together his most important works.
Author | : Frank Vanclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Text for tertiary students of rural and environmental sociology, first published in 1995. Examines the relationship between the degradation of the environment and the social relations of production in agriculture, from a sociological perspective. Designed to develop a critical sociological approach to understanding of the social aspects of land degradation. Includes references and an index. Chapters Two and Five have been previously published. The authors worked at the centre for social research at Charles Sturt University.
Author | : Max Oelschlaeger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Gabor Zovanyi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0415630142 |
Mounting evidence reveals that the existing scale of human enterprise has already surpassed global ecological limits to growth. This ecological reality clearly counteracts the possibility of continued exponential growth in the twenty-first century. In the absence of international, national, or state initiatives to implement a no-growth imperative founded on ecological limits, this book takes the position that local communities have an obligation to take the lead in promoting a new politics of sustainability directed at recognizing and ...
Author | : Erling Holden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134338481 |
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.
Author | : Michael Lewis |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0865717079 |
Argues that the economy can only be improved through major changes that will make it more decentralized and cooperative, including such novel ideas as energy self-sufficiency, interest-free financing, affordable housing, local food systems and more. Original.
Author | : Horst Mendershausen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
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Author | : Sidney I. Dobrin |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-03-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0429851804 |
This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the most dynamic, active criticisms to emerge in recent times. However, even in its institutional success, ecocriticism has exemplified an "ocean deficit." That is, ecocriticism has thus far primarily been a land-based criticism stranded on a liquid planet. Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative contributes to efforts to overcome ecocriticism’s "ocean-deficit." The chapters explore a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory, and criticism. By examining the relationships between these representations of ocean and cultural imaginaries, Blue Ecocriticism works to unmoor ecocriticism from its land-based anchors. This book aims to simultaneously advance blue ecocriticism as an intellectual pursuit within the environmental humanities and to advocate for ocean conservation as derivative of that pursuit.
Author | : Victor Papanek |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2022-02-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0500770719 |
A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book examining the important role of design in combating climate change. Whether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative, Papanek argues for design that addresses these issues head-on. This means using materials that can be recycled and reused, no more pointless packaging, thinking about how products make us feel and engage all our senses, putting nature at the heart of design, working at a smaller scale, rejecting aesthetics for their own sake, and thinking before we buy. First published at the end of the twentieth century, this book offered a plethora of honest advice, clear examples, and withering critiques, laying out the flaws of and opportunities for the design world at that time. A quarter of a century on, Papanek’s lucid prose has lost none of its verve, and the problems he highlights have only become more urgent, giving today’s reader both a fascinating historical perspective on the issues at hand and a blueprint for how they might be solved.
Author | : Victor J. Papanek |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780500278468 |
In this book Papanek looks at the exciting possibilities for the future if architecture and design were to become environmentally and socially responsible. He shows how people can contribute to the well-being of the planet through awareness of design.