1990
Author: Barry Commoner
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Reviews past efforts to repair environmental damage and documents the shortcomings of the eco-revolution.
Author: Barry Commoner
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Reviews past efforts to repair environmental damage and documents the shortcomings of the eco-revolution.
Author: Heather Rogers
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595585729
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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“A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review). Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly and fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage. Gone Tomorrow excavates the history of rubbish handling from the nineteenth century to the present, pinpointing the roots of today’s waste-addicted society. With a “lively authorial voice,” Rogers draws connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our throwaway lifestyle (New York Press). She also investigates the politics of recycling and the export of trash to poor countries, while offering a potent argument for change. “A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents a galvanizing exposé of how we became the planet’s trash monsters. . . . [Gone Tomorrow] details everything that is wrong with today’s wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators. . . . Rogers exhibits black-belt precision.” —Booklist, starred review
Author: Hans Jörg Sandkühler
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy and science
Languages : de
Pages : 505
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Der Titel des Buches ist programmatisch und enthalt eine provokante These: Es gab und gibt, allen Dementis zum Trotz, Interaktionen zwischen Philosophie und empirischen und experimentellen Wissenschaften. Helmholtz' Mahnung war nicht das letzte Wort: -Die Naturforscher wurden von den Philosophen der Borniertheit geziehen; diese von jenen der Sinnlosigkeit.- Auf die Frage, ob Kooperationen gelungen oder Konkurrenzen missgluckt sind, bietet dieser Band Antworten aus Binnenperspektiven sowohl der Philosophie als auch einzelner Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften, - Antworten im fragenden Umgang mit Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes und Spinoza, mit Kant und den ihm zwar "nach-" aber kaum "folgenden" Fichte und Schelling und Hegel, mit Comte, Feuerbach und Marx, Joh. Muller, Helmholtz, Peirce, Cassirer und Neurath... Die Beitrage sind dem heute notwendigen Programm verpflichtet, in dem sich die Philosophie und die Wissenschaften, die Wissenschaftsgeschichte und die Philosophiegeschichte in gemeinsamer Arbeit begegnen."
Author: Geoffrey W. R. Palmer
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732620
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Author: Petra Goedde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199708010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.
Author: Daniel D. Chiras
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559631068
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Citizens concerned about the environment are taking up the call for a new, sustainable lifestyle. "Lessons from Nature" tells us what sustainability really is, and how we can achieve it. Daniel Chiras brings the concept of sustainability to life, defining it in a variety of contexts -- economic, biological, political, and ethical -- and exploring creative, practical ways to apply the principles of sustainability to nearly all aspects of modern life.
Author: Howard Clinebell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317760557
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Here is a trailblazing book on issues of vital interest to the future of humankind. Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth sheds light on humankind’s most serious health challenge ever--how to save our precious planet as a clean, viable habitat. As a guide for therapists, health professionals, pastoral counselors, teachers, medical healers, and especially parents, Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth highlights readers’strategic opportunities to help our endangered human species cope constructively with the unprecedented challenge of saving a healthful planet for future generations. Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth introduces readers to an innovative approach to ecologically-grounded personality theory, spirituality, ecotherapy, and education. The book shares the author’s well-developed theories and methods of ecological diagnosis, treatment, and education so professionals and parents, our most influential teachers, can rise to the challenge of saving our planet. Readers will find that the book helps them accomplish this goal as it: explores an expanded, ecologically grounded theory of personality development, the missing dimension in understanding human identity formation outlines a model for doing ecologically oriented psychotherapy, counseling, medical healing, teaching, and parenting describes life-saving perspectives for making one’s lifestyle more earth-caring demonstrates the importance of hope, humor, and love suggests how these earthy approaches may be utilized in a variety of social contexts and cultures A systematic theory and practice guidebook, Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth fills a wide gap in both the counseling and therapy literature and the ecology literature. It offers an innovative model for fulfilling the “ecological circle” between humans and nature with three action dimensions. These are self-care by being intentionally nurtured by nature; spiritual enrichment by enjoying the transcendent Spirit in nature; and responding by nurturing nature more responsibly and lovingly. The theories and practical applications presented in the book come together to explore long-overlooked issues at the boundary between human health and the health of the natural environment. Psychotherapists, health professionals, and teachers; pastoral counselors and other clergy who counsel and teach; laypersons who are parents and grandparents; and individuals and groups interested in environmental issues will find Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth essential for approaching the long-neglected earthy roots of the total human mind-body-spirit organism.
Author: L. R. Jones
Publisher: Jai Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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This 12th volume in the series covers a variety of topics in the field of self, collective behaviour and society.
Author: Mary Mostafanezhad
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131750934X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further establishment of this emerging interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad in scope—with chapters that span Central and South America to Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and Greenland—the collection illustrates how tourism-related environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice. It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to address tourism-related issues and themes such as development, identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies. Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield: Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism, politics and the environment
Author: John F. Mongillo
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313308840
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Profiles of over 80 activists who put a human face on the often complicated and emotional debates concerning the environment.
