Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the Wild`, Alfons Wabahe Mosimane, Michael Bollig, Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Mekondjo Lendelvo
: Gifford Robert : Research Methods for Environmental Psychology ISBN: 1118795385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118795385 : Wiley : : 42190.00 T : . : Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment.
: Julie Livingston : Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa ISBN: 1478006390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006398 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 20860.00 T : . : Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
: Julie Livingston : Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa ISBN: 1478005084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005087 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 79380.00 T : . : Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
: Institutional arrangements for conservation, development and tourism in eastern and southern africa ISBN: 9401795282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401795289 : Springer : : 113190.00 T : . : With respect to the conservation and development impacts of these arrangements, we show that they have secured large amounts of land for conservation, but also generated governance challenges and disputes on tourism benefit sharing, affecting the stability of these arrangements to generate socioeconomic and conservation benefits.
: Jawad Laith A. : Southern Iraq`s Marshes: Their Environment and Conservation ISBN: 3030662373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030662370 : Springer : 153720.00 T : . : The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field.This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.
: Ren? van der Duim; Machiel Lamers; Jakomijn van Wi : Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa ISBN: 9402408126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402408126 : Springer : : 95770.00 T : . : With respect to the conservation and development impacts of these arrangements, we show that they have secured large amounts of land for conservation, but also generated governance challenges and disputes on tourism benefit sharing, affecting the stability of these arrangements to generate socioeconomic and conservation benefits.
: Manganiello, Christopher J. : Southern water, southern power ISBN: 1469636026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636023 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 33400.00 T : . : Why has the American South - a place with abundant rainfall - become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, policy expert and historian Christopher Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water. From the New South to the Sun Belt eras, private corporations, public utilities, and political actors made a region-defining trade-off: The South would have cheap energy, but it would be accompanied by persistent water insecurity. Manganiello's compelling environmental history recounts stories of the people and institutions that shaped this exchange and reveals how the use of water and power in the South has been challenged by competition, customers, constituents, and above all, nature itself.
: Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed; Wilfred Mlay : Environment and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa ISBN: 1349266450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349266456 : Springer : : 71730.00 T : . : This book sheds light on the sources of environmental concerns in Africa. It shows that not all environmental issues command the same priority interest and, thus, emphasis must be laid on those that are of pressing concern to the continent as a whole and to the Eastern and Southern African regions in particular.
: Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro, : Commodifying violence in literature and on screen : ISBN: 0367459655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367459659 : Taylor&Francis : : 148010.00 T : . : Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, this book investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors.
: Drew A. Swanson : Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments ISBN: 0820344877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344874 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 87780.00 T : . : Explores the ways in which Appalachia served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew Swanson builds on recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region long considered a homogenous backwater.
: Francesca Sobande : Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 ISBN: 1529793971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529793970 : Sage Publications : : 47510.00 T : . : This is an urgent project which uses the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to explore consumer culture, cultural citizenship and brand response.
: Commodifying Education: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Financialization of Education Policies in Brazil ISBN: 9463005811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463005814 : Brill : : 119540.00 T : . : The texts in this book do not compose a mere selection: the questions that guide the chapters form a cohesively and coherently structured totality which expresses the movement of construction of what the authors understand to be a new problematic in the education field in Brazil and in the world.The book addresses basic, professional and undergraduate education from perspectives that highlight different aspects of privatization, commercialization and commodification, as well as the presence of the business community in the definition of educational policies. These levels and modalities of teaching are analysed in articulation both with science, technology and so-called technological innovation policies and with the modus operandi of the state.
