Mosquitoes management: Between environmental and health issues, Cecilia Claeys

Название: Modelling nature-based solutions
ISBN: 1108428932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108428934
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book joins two domains of knowledge together: modelling and environmental management. It provides readers with an integrated, but modularised, body of knowledge spanning these domains in a single, accessible form. A must-read for students, researchers and practitioners within environmental science and planning related subjects.

Автор: Hwa-Jen Liu
Название: Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
ISBN: 0816689512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816689514
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities-Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor–environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.

Автор: Michelle Mart
Название: Pesticides, A Love Story: America`s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
ISBN: 0700626492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626496
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: “Presto! No More Pests!” proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, ""miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer."" Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn’t love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did—and apparently still do. Why—in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness—do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer.America's embrace of synthetic pesticides began when they burst on the scene during World War II and has held steady into the 21st century—for example, more than 90% of soybeans grown in the US in 2008 are Roundup Ready GMOs, dependent upon generous use of the herbicide glyphosate to control weeds. Mart investigates the attraction of pesticides, with their up-to-the-minute promise of modernity, sophisticated technology, and increased productivity—in short, their appeal to human dreams of controlling nature. She also considers how they reinforced Cold War assumptions of Western economic and material superiority.Though the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the rise of environmentalism might have marked a turning point in Americans’ faith in pesticides, statistics tell a different story. Pesticides, a Love Story recounts the campaign against DDT that famously ensued; but the book also shows where our notions of Silent Spring’s revolutionary impact falter—where, in spite of a ban on DDT, farm use of pesticides in the United States more than doubled in the thirty years after the book was published. As a cultural survey of popular and political attitudes toward pesticides, Pesticides, a Love Story tries to make sense of this seeming paradox. At heart, it is an exploration of the story we tell ourselves about the costs and benefits of pesticides—and how corporations, government officials, ordinary citizens, and the press shape that story to reflect our ideals, interests, and emotions.

Автор: Jennifer Thomson
Название: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
ISBN: 1469651998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469651996
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Описание: Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.

Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present, including the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics, but, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster.

Автор: Bulkeley
Название: Accomplishing Climate Governance
ISBN: 1107038650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107038653
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is aimed at researchers, advanced students and policy makers concerned with developing a fresh perspective on the politics of climate change and how society can respond. It provides new conceptual insights grounded in a range of detailed cases, tracing the potential for developing alternative approaches to climate politics.

Автор: Claudia R. Binder, Romano Wyss, Emanuele Massaro
Название: Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems
ISBN: 110847179X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108471794
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems and covers different aspects of urban sustainability, from energy and housing, to mobility and health. Including numerous case studies, this book provides a useful reference for researchers from a broad range of disciplines working in the field of sustainability.

Название: Urban planet
ISBN: 1107196930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107196933
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Описание: Global urbanization promises better services and stronger economies but also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. Urban Planet highlights the hopes and hindrances of our journey of urbanization and the need for a parallel evolution of our science and systems to ensure we reap the rewards. This title is also available as Open Access.

Автор: Wood, Donald C.
Название: Ogata-mura
ISBN: 1785330446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785330445
Издательство: Berghahn
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Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village’s purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura’s development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village’s economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.

Автор: David Johns
Название: Conservation Politics: The Last Anti-Colonial Battle
ISBN: 1316648931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316648933
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Shifting the focus in conservation biology to directly include political efficacy is vital to natural world protection. David Johns argues that the loss of species and healthy ecological systems is best understood as due to human efforts to impose a colonial relationship on the non-human world - one of exploitation and domination.

Автор: Gouri Suresh, U. S. Hampannavar
Название: Environmental Studies and Ethics
ISBN: 8189866265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788189866266
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Описание: Dealing with the various dimensions of environment, this book provides an introductory view of essential topics in environmental studies. It presents: rainwater harvesting and solid waste management; formulae to calculate rainwater harvesting potential and sizes of settling tanks; and, information on websites and search engines, with examples.

Автор: Ferguson
Название: This Is Our Land
ISBN: 0813565626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565620
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Описание: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.

Автор: Fei Fang, Milind Tambe, Bistra Dilkina, Andrew J. Plumptre
Название: Artificial Intelligence and Conservation
ISBN: 1108464734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108464734
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Описание: This book explains how artificial intelligence (AI) methods can be used to aid the conservation of wildlife, forests, coral reefs, rivers, and other natural resources. It offers an overview plus in-depth discussion of research advances, field tests and real-world deployments, and will be of use to artificial intelligence researchers and conservation professionals.