Tag: Ecological

Free Download Majia Nadesan, "Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in "
English | ISBN: 073919495X | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. These human-engineered crises threaten sustainability through resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the growth of geo-political conflicts. Yet, the corporations responsible have returned to profitability by externalizing risks to communities and governments. In response to this pattern of crisis management, Nadesan argues that contemporary financial and energy complexes pose significant threats to liberal democracy and ecological sustainability. This book will be of interest to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, and economics.

Free Download Yavor Tarinski, "Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society: Grassroots Strategies for Social Change"
English | ISBN: 1789049229 | 2022 | 112 pages | EPUB | 719 KB
Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a genuine solidarity economy to overturn the ravages of capitalist economic growth. It critiques bureaucratic, technocratic and conspiracist tendencies both in mainstream discourse and on the Left, and offers a compelling and uplifting vision of a thoroughly transformed social order.

Free Download Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China"
English | ISBN: 0295751711 | 2023 | 582 pages | PDF | 46 MB
Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a comprehensive account of China’s transformation since the founding of the People’s Republic from the perspective not of the economy but of the biophysical world. Examples throughout illustrate how agricultural, industrial, and urban development have affected the resilience of China’s ecosystems―their ability to withstand disturbances and additional growth―and what this means for the country’s future.

Free Download Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being: Rethinking Sustainability Economics for the 21st Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031389883 | 211 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic roots of this crisis are rarely exposed, examined nor addressed. This book’s central contribution to sustainability studies is to argue that what we should sustain is not economic growth but social-ecological well-being defined as a combination of planetary health, cooperation and justice resulting in human holistic prosperity. The long-term prosperity of humanity indeed relies on generating health and fostering cooperation informed by justice: social-ecological well-being should be the cornerstone of sustainability economics for the 21st century. Within this framework, this book attempts to explain why the three key dimensions of sustainability are jointly in crisis, show what vision can articulate those dimensions to rethink sustainability economics for our century, what practical policies should be undertaken to give life to these visions before concluding on the need to reinvent the narratives that sustain economic analysis.

Free Download The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change:
Contexts from a Developing Country
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819922054 | 1003 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 61 MB

Free Download Peter Drucker, "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition"
English | 2000 | pages: 476 | ISBN: 0765807254 | PDF | 21,0 mb
Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining equilibrium between change and conservation.

Free Download Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice: Provocations and Conversations by Matthew Weinstein , Chantal Pouliot , Isabel Martins , Ralph Levinson , Lyn Carter , Larry Bencze , Ajay Sharma
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 214 Pages | ISBN : 3031393295 | 12.2 MB
This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science education. The book considers and reworks the key-terms of current social justice: agency, realism, justice, and power. Its first section explores re-inhabiting science in the quest for more just worlds including reterritorializing science within emergent theories of critical realism, engaging citizens activists with corporate science, and challenging neoliberalism and the forces that organize (structure) knowledge. The second section redefines praxis of science education itself through nuanced explorations of agency, decolonialism, and justice in ways that emphasize complexity, hybridity, ambivalence, and contradiction. The stories of this international group capture individual and collective efforts, motivated by a persistent sense that science and science education matter for questions of justice.

Free Download Ecological Risks of Emerging Pollutants in Urbanizing Regions by Yonglong Lu, Pei Wang, Jingjing Yuan
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 402 Pages | ISBN : 9811996296 | 164.6 MB
This book characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and transformation processes, exposure pathways to ecosystems and humans, and ecological risks. Based on this, it establishes an urbanizing region management concept and highlights how urbanization and its regional ecology have evolved into a more integrated vision. It also decouples the relations between urbanization and emissions of emerging pollutants that are framed within a broad socio-ecological context considering institutions, policies, and governance. All the theory, methods, and case studies have been taken from the authors’ publications, which have undergone rigorous international peer review. The book presents the spatial distribution, pathways, and flow diagrams of the pollutants as well as the interactions between urbanization and regional pollution and includes detailed figures and pictures. It also investigates ecological risk characterization and expression using maps based on geographic information systems to illustrate the general profile and the spatial variation of risks.

Free Download What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C74TGYH8 | 2023 | 13 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 387 MB
Author: Jennifer Jewell
Narrator: Jennifer Jewell
An insightful, personal, and timely exploration into the wonderful world of seeds. In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings listeners on an insightful year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature’s smallest manifestations-the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant multinational agribusiness has refined and patented the genomes of seeds we rely on for staples like corn and soy, and highlights the efforts of activists working to regain legal access to heirloom seeds that were stolen from Indigenous peoples and people of color.