Tag: Ecological

Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Changing Environments


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English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 423 Pages | ISBN : 9819993741 | 121.7 MB
This book prepared by a joint working group committed to critical research on dryland social-ecological systems (SESs) presents a timely synthesis of up-to-date knowledge in various thematic fields relevant to dryland SESs. It aims to organize key salient concepts and establish a conceptual framework relevant to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural understanding of dryland SESs, which have specific contexts and a geographically representative structure. Through synthesizing research across the world and analyzing scientific evidence for good practices, it has the potential to promote collaboration among global researchers as well as communication with policy makers, managers, and practitioners for dryland ecosystem management to promote sustainability. It calls for synergies between different sectors and countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in drylands.

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The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation


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English | August 19, 2024 | ISBN: 3110998327 | 324 pages | MOBI | 0.91 Mb
This handbook gathers contributors from different disciplines of the social sciences, such as organization and management studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, to constructively discuss the kinds of transformations we need to see in coming years. These transformations concern the way we work, produce and consume but also the way in which we think about work, production and consumption.

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All Art Is Ecological


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 0141997001 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 0.9 mb
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

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From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security


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English | 2005 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0262661896 | PDF | 1,8 mb
From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President – commissioned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 – and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity. It examines current environmental trends in order to consider the state of the global environment over the next thirty years and discusses what can be done now to achieve ecological security.

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The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032023899, 1032023902 | PDF | pages: 677 | 160.1 mb
This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.

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