Environmental Echoes

Author : Sylvia Hood Washington,Heather Goodall,Paul Rosier
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739154472

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Echoes from the Poisoned Well by Sylvia Hood Washington,Heather Goodall,Paul Rosier Pdf

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American environmentalism, and on Heather Goodall's work with Indigenous Australians to seek out wider perspectives on the relationships between memories of injustice and demands for environmental justice in the global arena. This collection contributes to environmental historiography by providing 'bottom up' environmental histories in a field which so far has mostly emphasized a 'top down' perspective, in which the voices of those most heavily burdened by environmental degradation are often ignored. The essays here serve as a modest step in filling this lacuna in environmental history by providing the viewpoints of peoples and of indigenous communities which traditionally have been neglected while linking them to a global context of environmental activism and education. Scholars of environmental justice, as much as the activists in their respective struggle, face challenges in working comparatively to locate the differences between local struggles as well as to celebrate their common ground. In this sense, the chapters in this book represent the opening up of spaces for future conversations rather than any simple ending to the discussion. The contributions, however, reflect growing awareness of that common ground and a rising need to employ linked experiences and strategies in combating environmental injustice on a global scale, in part by mimicking the technology and tools employed by global corporations that endanger the environmental integrity of a diverse set of homelands and ecologies.

Author : K.B.DHARMA PRAKASH
Publisher : Sankalp Publication
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789390720149

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Environmental Echoes by K.B.DHARMA PRAKASH Pdf

Environment days are occassions to educate the public on the issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to adress global problems and to celebrate and rein force achievements of humanity. The existence of environmental days pre dates the establishment of the United Nations but the UN has embrassed them as a powerful advocacy tool. Water and air , the two essentials on which all life depends , have become global garbage cans now. The real cure for our environment problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother nature. we are facing a formidable enemy in this field it is the hunters - and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult hence I strongly believe the information on every day of environmental importance will serve as a wake up call to aware the public on a wider scale . I hope the contents of this book will serve the purpose to some extent.

Author : Ingemar Haag,Karin Molander Danielsson,Marie Öhman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527534292

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Perspectives on Ecocriticism by Ingemar Haag,Karin Molander Danielsson,Marie Öhman Pdf

This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” held in Västerås, Sweden, in 2017, organized by the research group Ecocritical Forum at Mälardalen University. The conference, which was an attempt to survey local ecocritical activities, transcended Nordic boundaries, engaging scholars from Europe and the United States. This expansion from the local to the global mirrors the subject of the conference: ecocriticism, a cross-disciplinary field of research in the intersection of environmental issues and cultural expressions. The chapters here engage with topical issues such as the Anthropocene, sustainability in education, and civilizational critique, as well as schools of thought such as materialism, dark ecology and animal studies. The contributions discuss several types of cultural expressions, including film and other visual media, university course design and Nordic, and English language novels and poetry. This volume will attract the interest of readers from a number of different backgrounds, both in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Author : Ronald G. Shaiko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231113552

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Voices and Echoes for the Environment by Ronald G. Shaiko Pdf

What are the challenges facing public interest groups as a result of their transformation from the small, grassroots groups of the 1960s into the large, professionalized, multi-billion dollar industry of the '90s? How might public interest groups meet these challenges as they move into the next century? Focusing on national environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and Environmental Defense Fund, Voices and Echoes for the Environment demonstrates how the demands of organizational maintenance encroach on the goal of effective policy influence.

Author : Ronald G. Shaiko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231113544

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Voices and Echoes for the Environment by Ronald G. Shaiko Pdf

Focusing on national environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and Environmental Defense Fund, "Voices and Echoes for the Environment" demonstrates how the demands of organizational maintenance encroach on the goal of effective policy influence.

Author : Steven Brough
Publisher : GRASPED Digital
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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GRASPED Echoes of the Earth by Steven Brough Pdf

In "GRASPED Echoes of the Earth," readers are invited on an inspiring journey through the innovative world of sustainable entrepreneurship. This book brilliantly captures the essence of how entrepreneurs are making significant strides towards a more sustainable future. Through compelling case studies, insightful analysis, and actionable advice, it showcases the transformative power of integrating sustainability into business models. The author skillfully weaves together stories of success and challenge, painting a vivid picture of the current landscape and the potential for future impact. For anyone passionate about marrying the worlds of entrepreneurship and environmental stewardship, "GRASPED Echoes of the Earth" is an essential read that energizes, educates, and empowers. "GRASPED Echoes of the Earth" stands out as a unique beacon for entrepreneurs and business leaders eager to contribute to the sustainability movement. Its unique qualities lie in its pragmatic approach to sustainability, offering not just inspiration but also practical frameworks that can be applied across industries. Unlike other books that might focus solely on the why of sustainability, "GRASPED" dives deep into the how, providing readers with a toolkit for action. This book is a treasure trove of innovative ideas and strategies, making it an indispensable guide for anyone looking to build a business that not only thrives financially but also acts as a steward of the planet.

Author : Alon Tal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520234284

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Pollution in a Promised Land by Alon Tal Pdf

"This book is likely to become the future point of reference for scholarship on environmental issues in Israel. Tal combines his extensive inside knowledge with broad and thorough research to take the reader clearly through a complex fabric of personalities, organizations, and issues."—Stuart Schoenfeld, York University "This is truly an excellent book. It is the first treatment of the whole array of environmental issues in Israel, and in its historical context – an absolute necessity. Extremely well-written and in fact hard to put down, this book is useful on many levels, for United Nations Agencies and development officials, Israeli and Palestinian government officials, and environmentalists and teachers around the world."—Brock Evans, Executive Director, The Endangered Species Coalition and author of many articles and books on the politics of the environment "Pollution in a Promised Land is an innovative book, and an important one, by perhaps the most prominent environmental activist in Israel. Tal's approach is to take an "eagle's eye view" of his vast subject, now gliding far above, providing overview, now swooping down very close and, through interviews or anecdotes, describing his subject with great immediacy and in memorable detail."—Noah J. Efron, Bar Ilan University "Anyone who cares about the land of Israel should read Pollution in a Promised Land. It is critical to understanding the social, political, and scientific dimensions of the country's environmental challenges as well as the country's remarkable ecological achievements. Alon Tal is uniquely qualified to present this fascinating and dramatic environmental history."—Tzachi Hanegbi, Minister of the Environment, Israel

Author : Environmental Research Laboratories (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133453907

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Environmental Research Laboratories Publication Abstracts by Environmental Research Laboratories (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Sam Mickey,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783748068

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Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing by Sam Mickey,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim Pdf

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling. This anthology examines the interplay between Nature and Culture in the setting of our current age of ecological crisis, stressing the importance of addressing these ecological crises occurring around the planet through multiple perspectives. These perspectives are exemplified through diverse case studies – from the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests, to the capacity of storytelling to motivate action, to the worldview of the Indigenous Okanagan community in British Columbia. Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing synthesizes insights from across a range of academic fields, and highlights the potential for synergy between disciplinary approaches and inquiries. This anthology is essential reading not only for researchers and students, but for anyone interested in the ways in which humans interact with the community of life on Earth, especially during this current period of environmental emergency.

Author : Andy Farnell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262014410

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Designing Sound by Andy Farnell Pdf

A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software. Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data—an approach sometimes known as “procedural audio.” Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Applications include video games, film, animation, and media in which sound is part of an interactive process. The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providing background information that offers a firm theoretical context for its pragmatic stance. [Many of the examples follow a pattern, beginning with a discussion of the nature and physics of a sound, proceeding through the development of models and the implementation of examples, to the final step of producing a Pure Data program for the desired sound. Different synthesis methods are discussed, analyzed, and refined throughout.] After mastering the techniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects

Author : Richard Polt,Jon Wittrock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786605566

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The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene by Richard Polt,Jon Wittrock Pdf

The so-called anthropocene is one of the most widely discussed concepts in philosophy and critical theory at the moment. This volume takes a broad historical view of the topic, bringing together high profile theorists, including Luce Irigaray and Adrian Parr, providing a platform for highly original work in this important and timely field.

Author : Sarah Jaquette Ray,Jay Sibara
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803278455

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Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Sarah Jaquette Ray,Jay Sibara Pdf

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between “wild” and “built” environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing “disability.” Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. With a historical scope spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this collection not only presents the foundational documents informing this intersection of fields but also showcases the most current work, making it an indispensable reference.

Author : Nnimmo Bassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0995222312

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Oil Politics by Nnimmo Bassey Pdf

The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors. These essays are are intended as calls to action, as a means of encouraging others facing similar threats to share their experiences.

Author : Rafico Ruiz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012139

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Slow Disturbance by Rafico Ruiz Pdf

From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds, subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents, maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents, as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission's infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline—responded to the colony's environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission's history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism.

Author : Annette Hoffman
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927404

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Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa by Annette Hoffman Pdf

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the polyphonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been consulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffmann engages with a Southern African audio-visual collection, which is located in five different institutions across Vienna, Austria. Several recordings collected by the anthropologist Rudolf Pch in August 1908 have been retranslated for this book. These translations provide new insights into Pchs collecting expedition to the Kalahari. Pchs narrative of his heroic journey is called into question by the Naro speakers comments, which address colonial violence and criticise the research practices of the anthropologist. By attending to the spoken texts on the recordings and reconnecting them to photographs, ethnographic objects, archival documentation and Pchs travelogue, Hoffmann offers a different reading of this research trip into a war zone.triesries.