For The Amazon Nation

Author : Paulina Sanchez
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595844555

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For the Amazon Nation by Paulina Sanchez Pdf

Thalassa, the young and brave princess of the tribe of Lemnos, sees her civilization's future threatened and her world completely shaken by the arrival in her island of Elephthera, an audacious Amazon from Aretias, who seeks help for her tribe and the whole nation of warrior women after a ravaging attack of Sarmatian nomads. With the aid of their fellow sisters, they will embark on a thrilling mythological journey to save their own lives and their entire race. It will take them from Greek waters to Fezzan in the heart of the Sahara desert, and back to Aretias to face a final decisive battle that will define the course of their culture's fate. Theirs will not only be a physical, but also a spiritual quest, through which Thalassa's dark secret, hidden in her mysterious eyes, will be revealed, and an unbreakable bond will be created between these two courageous women.

Author : Emilio F Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000315936

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The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development by Emilio F Moran Pdf

This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen

Author : Andreas Rasche,Georg Kell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521145534

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The United Nations Global Compact by Andreas Rasche,Georg Kell Pdf

A review of the first ten years of the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.

Author : Pardeep Singh,Yulia Milshina,Kangming Tian,Deepak Gusain,João Paulo Bassin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128183403

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Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations by Pardeep Singh,Yulia Milshina,Kangming Tian,Deepak Gusain,João Paulo Bassin Pdf

Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations: Technologies, Challenges, Strategies, and Policies addresses issues of water resources—including combined sewer system overflows—assessing effects on water quality standards and protecting surface and sub-surface potable water from the intrusion of saline water due to sea level rise. The book's chapters incorporate both policies and practical aspects and serve as baseline information for future adaption plans in BRICS nations. Users will find detailed important information that is ideal for policymakers, water management specialists, BRICS nation undergraduate or university students, teachers and researchers. Presents tools and techniques that can be used to preserve water resources, including groundwater and surface water Provides geophysical methods to quantitatively monitor physical earth processes associated with water resources, such as contaminant transport and ecological and climate change investigations and monitoring Includes desalination techniques which can solve the issue of scarce drinking water

Author : Ed Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000220506

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Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon by Ed Atkins Pdf

In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of ‘contested sustainability’ that highlights the need for sustainable energy transitions to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed ‘sustainable.’ Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a ‘green’ energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes studied as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, sustainable energy transitions, environmental justice, environmental governance, and development studies.

Author : Jeffery M. Paige
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540143

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Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005 by Jeffery M. Paige Pdf

Uprisings by indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia between 1990 and 2005 overthrew the five-hundred-year-old racial and class order inherited from the Spanish Empire. It started in Ecuador with the Great Indigenous Uprising, which was fought for cultural and economic rights. A few years later massive indigenous mobilizations began in Bolivia, culminating in 2005 with the election of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president. Jeffrey M. Paige, an internationally recognized authority on the sociology of revolutionary movements, interviewed forty-five indigenous leaders who were actively involved in the uprisings. The leaders recount how peaceful protest and electoral democracy paved the path to power. Through the interviews, we learn how new ideologies of indigenous socialism drew on the deep commonalities between the communal dreams of their ancestors and the modern ideology of democratic socialism. This new discourse spoke to the people most oppressed by both withering racism and neoliberal capitalism. Emphasizing mutual respect among ethnic groups (including the dominant Hispanic group), the new revolutionary dynamic proposes a communal worldview similar to but more inclusive than Western socialism because it adds indigenous cultures and nature in a spiritual whole. Although absent in the major revolutions of the past century, the themes of indigenous revolution—democracy, indigeneity, spirituality, community, and ecology—are critically important. Paige’s interviews present the powerful personal experiences and emotional intensity of the revolutionary leadership. They share the stories of mass mobilization, elections, and indigenous socialism that created a new form of twenty-first-century revolution with far-reaching applications beyond the Andes.

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190949396

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Governing the Rainforest by Eve Z. Bratman Pdf

Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.

Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822009733619

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Report of the National Museum by United States National Museum Pdf

Author : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941831

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Intimate Frontiers by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte Pdf

A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548184

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : International law
ISBN : IND:30000131025045

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A Digest of the International Law of the United States by Francis Wharton Pdf

Author : Stephanie Paladino,Shirley J Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315473994

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The Carbon Fix by Stephanie Paladino,Shirley J Fiske Pdf

Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world’s forests—and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them—at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance. Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical context. The book then challenges perceptions of forest carbon initiatives through in-depth, field-based case studies assessing projects, policies, and procedures at various scales, from informed consent to international carbon auditing. While providing a mixed assessment of the potential for forest carbon initiatives to balance carbon with social goals, the authors present compelling evidence for the complexities of the carbon offset enterprise, fraught with competing interests and interpretations at multiple scales, and having unanticipated and often deleterious effects on the resources and rights of the world’s poorest peoples—especially indigenous and rural peoples. The Carbon Fix provides nuanced insights into political, economic, and ethical issues associated with climate change policy. Its case approach and fresh perspective are critical to environmental professionals, development planners, and project managers; and to students in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology and geography, environmental and policy studies, international development, and indigenous studies.

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415640763

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Sustainable Development in Amazonia by Kei Otsuki Pdf

This book questions the assumption that Amazonia's future rests exclusively in sustainability and environmental conservation. It is the first book to argue for an Amazonia strategy that emphasises societal dynamics in deforestation and sustainable development policy. Demystifying utopian views of the rainforest as a troubled paradise, the book explores potential processes by which ordinary settlers can themselves construct a sustainable society.

Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472111892

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The Ancient Art of Emulation by Elaine K. Gazda Pdf

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : WISC:89089397731

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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by Anonim Pdf