A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History, Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg
Автор: Eidsvik Название: Value of Information in the Earth Sciences ISBN: 1107040264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107040267 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 132000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book presents a unified framework for assessing the value of potential data gathering schemes by integrating spatial modelling and decision analysis, with a focus on the Earth sciences. Real datasets and MATLAB codes are provided online, making this an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and industry professionals.
Автор: Boschman Robert, Trono Mario Название: Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene ISBN: 1554589592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554589593 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 50050.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come from an array of disciplinary backgrounds.
Автор: Imrie Rob, Lees Loretta Название: Sustainable London?: The Future of a Global City ISBN: 1447310608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447310600 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 42230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
Автор: Imrie Rob, Lees Loretta Название: Sustainable London?: The Future of a Global City ISBN: 1447310594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447310594 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 105590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
Автор: Newell Jennifer Название: Curating the Future ISBN: 1138658529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138658523 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.
Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming.
There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.
Автор: Lave Rebecca Название: Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science ISBN: 0820343927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820343921 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training. Since the mid-1990s, many academic and federal agency - based scientists have denounced Rosgen as a charlatan and a hack. Despite this, Rosgen's Natural Channel Design approach, classification system, and short-course series are not only accepted but are viewed as more legitimate than academically produced knowledge and training. Rosgen's methods are now promoted by federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, as well as by resource agencies in dozens of states.Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Lave demonstrates that the primary cause of Rosgen's success is neither the method nor the man but is instead the assignment of a new legitimacy to scientific claims developed outside the academy, concurrent with academic scientists' decreasing ability to defend their turf. What is at stake in the Rosgen wars, argues Lave, is not just the ecological health of our rivers and streams but the very future of environmental science.
Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world’s most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian armed factions, the indigenous Cofán people and their rain forest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofán chose Randy Borman, a man of Euro-American descent, to lead their efforts to overcome the crisis that confronted them.
Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, A Future for Amazonia begins by tracing the contours of Cofán society and Borman’s place within it. Borman, a blue-eyed, white-skinned child of North American missionary-linguists, was raised in a Cofán community and gradually came to share the identity of his adoptive nation. He became a global media phenomenon and forged creative partnerships between Cofán communities, conservationist organizations, Western scientists, and the Ecuadorian state. The result was a collective mobilization that transformed the Cofán nation in unprecedented ways, providing them with political power, scientific expertise, and a new role as ambitious caretakers of more than one million acres of forest. Challenging simplistic notions of identity, indigeneity, and inevitable ecological destruction, A Future for Amazonia charts an inspiring course for environmental politics in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Brian Huntley; Wolfgang Cramer; Alan V. Morgan; Ho Название: Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes ISBN: 3642644716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642644719 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 113190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes: The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota", held at Crieff, Scotland, June 26-30, 1995
Автор: Dickerson Matthew Название: A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout ISBN: 1609404572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609404574 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Takes readers from an Applachian trout stream in western North Carolina where wild trout are reduced to sipping cigarette butts, up through the author`s home state of Vermont where development and the ski industry threaten the state`s iconic pastoral riversides, and finally into western Maine to a once dead river that has returned to life.
Автор: Christian Lenhart, Peter C. Smiley Jr Название: Ecological Restoration in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future ISBN: 160938573X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609385736 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Because of its industrial history, agricultural productivity, and natural features, the Midwest has always faced a unique set of ecological challenges. Focusing on six cutting-edge case studies that highlight thirty restoration efforts and research sites throughout the region, this volume shows how midwestern restoration efforts have developed, as well as where they are headed.
Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial agriculture. Both representations obscure individual farmers, their families, their communities, and the risks they face from unpredictable local, national, and global conditions: fluctuating and often volatile production costs and crop prices; extreme weather exacerbated by climate change; complicated and changing farm policies; new production technologies and practices; water availability; inflation and debt; and rural community decline. Yet the future of industrial agriculture depends fundamentally on farmers’ decisions.
In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture.
Автор: Rebecca Lave Название: Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science ISBN: 0820343919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820343914 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 52670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organised, and viewed in the United States.
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