Precedented Environmental Futures

Author : Colin Porteous
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781527533394

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Precedented Environmental Futures by Colin Porteous Pdf

This book addresses the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture, and in a holistic manner. It moves gradually from psychophysiology and thinking-doing-feeling modalities, through environmental criteria to environmental modulation, concluding with a debate around mitigation and adaptation. Much use is made of re-interpreting past quotations seen as relevant for environmental architecture. No definitive conclusions are reached, but rather broad discursive messages are offered. The text will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.

Author : N. Ben Fairweather
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0312216513

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Environmental Futures by N. Ben Fairweather Pdf

The thirteen essays that comprise this book on environmental issues pay particular attention to future developments, new technologies, paths in social and political theory and methodologies.

Author : Bruce E. Tonn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000358889

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Anticipation, Sustainability, Futures and Human Extinction by Bruce E. Tonn Pdf

This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and flourishing into the very distant future. Anticipation of threats to the sustainability of human civilization needs to encompass time periods that span not just decades but millennia. All existential risks need to be jointly assessed, as opposed to addressing risks such as climate change and pandemics separately. Exploring the potential events that are likely to cause the biggest risks as well as asking why we should even desire to thrive into the distant future, this work looks at the ‘biggest picture possible’ in order to argue that futures-oriented decision-making ought to be a permanent aspect of human society and futures-oriented policy making must take precedent over the day-to-day policy making of current generations in times of great peril. The book concludes with a discourse on the truly fundamental bottom-up changes needed in our personal psychologies and culture to support these top-down recommendations. This book is of great interest to philosophers, policy analysts, political scientists, economists, psychologists, planners, and theologians.

Author : Emilie Gaillard,David M. Forman
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 280760904X

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Legal Actions for Future Generations by Emilie Gaillard,David M. Forman Pdf

The aim of the book is to explore a range of topics illustrating the increasing relevance of taking legal actions on behalf of future generations. The entry into the Anthropocene era suggests the realization of a Copernican revolution in Law: defending the legal interests of future generations in order to keep their future horizons open.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0195531914

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Our Common Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774821636

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The Environmental Rights Revolution by David R. Boyd Pdf

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.

Author : Alan Ingelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1552389855

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Environment in the Courtroom by Alan Ingelson Pdf

"'Environment in the Courtroom' provides extensive insight into Canadian environmental law. Covering key environmental concepts and the unique nature of environmental damage, environmental prosecutions, sentencing and environmental offences, evidentiary issues in environmental processes and hearings, issues associated with site inspections, investigations, and enforcement, and more, this collection has the potential to make a significant difference at the level of understanding and practice. Containing perspective and insight from experienced and prominent Canadian legal practitioners and scholars, Environment in the Courtroom addresses the Canadian provinces and territories and provides context by comparison to the United States and Australia"--Provided by the publisher.

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461305712

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History and Precedent in Environmental Design by Anatol Rapoport Pdf

This book is about a new and different way of approaching and studying the history of the built environment and the use of historical precedents in design. However, although what I am proposing is new for what is currently called architectural history, both my approach and even my conclusions are not that new in other fields, as I discovered when I attempted to find supporting evidence. * In fact, of all the disciplines dealing with various aspects of the study of the past, architectural history seems to have changed least in the ways I am advocating. There is currently a revival of interest in the history of architecture and urban form; a similar interest applies to theory, vernacular design, and culture-environment relations. After years of neglect, the study of history and the use of historical precedent are again becoming important. However, that interest has not led to new approaches to the subject, nor have its bases been examined. This I try to do. In so doing, I discuss a more rigorous and, I would argue, a more valid way of looking at historical data and hence of using such data in a theory of the built environment and as precedent in environmental design. Underlying this is my view of Environment-Behavior Studies CEBS) as an emerging theory rather than as data to help design based on current "theory. " Although this will be the subject of another book, a summary statement of this position may be useful.

Author : Stefan E. Weishaar,Kars J. de Graaf
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781035314645

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The Future of Environmental Law by Stefan E. Weishaar,Kars J. de Graaf Pdf

Environmental law is evolving from negotiating and prescribing environmental policies to enforcing time-bound, measurable and achievable goals in order to secure a sustainable future. This pertinent and thought-provoking book analyzes the legal instruments that have been successful in working towards requisite targets for ecological sustainability. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, this insightful book discusses the future challenges and innovative applications of environmental law to assist in achieving sustainability goals in an efficient and timely manner.

Author : Richard Junge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401155762

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CAAD futures 1997 by Richard Junge Pdf

Since the establishment of the CAAD futures Foundation in 1985 CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and at the same time document the state of art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design. The history of CAAD futures started in the Netherlands at the Technical Universities of Eindhoven and Delft, where the CAAD futures Foundation came into being. Then CAAD futures crossed the oceans for the first time, the third CAAD futures in 1989 was held at Harvard University. Next stations in the evolution were in 1991 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the ETC, Zürich. In 1993 the conference was organized by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and in 1995 by National University, Singapore, CAAD futures 1995 marked the world wide nature by organizing it for the first time in Asia. Proceedings of CAAD futures held biannually provide a complete review of the state of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design.

Author : Linda Sygna,Karen O'Brien,Johanna Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136272509

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A Changing Environment for Human Security by Linda Sygna,Karen O'Brien,Johanna Wolf Pdf

Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action both supports and informs a call for new, transformative approaches to research, policy and action. The chapters in this book include critical analyses, case studies and reflections on contemporary environmental and social challenges, with a strong emphasis on those related to climate change. Human thoughts and actions have contributed to an environment of insecurity, manifested as multiple interacting threats that now represent a serious challenge to humanity. Yet humans also have the capacity to collectively transform the economic, political, social and cultural systems and structures that perpetuate human insecurities. These fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers – whether students, researchers, policy makers, or practitioners – to think differently about environmental issues and sustainability. The contributions show that in a changing environment, human security is not only a possibility, but a choice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031857956

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Contra Loma Reservoir Project, Future Use and Operation of Contra Loma Water District by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amitrajeet A Batabyal,Hamid Beladi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781420032628

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The Economics of International Trade and the Environment by Amitrajeet A Batabyal,Hamid Beladi Pdf

Issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization have moved to the forefront of international policy agendas. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment explores - from an economic standpoint - many of the questions that are germane in increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the presence of international

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston,Lisa Hiwasaki,Irene J. Klaver,Ameyali Ramos Castillo,Veronica Strang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400717749

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Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change by Barbara Rose Johnston,Lisa Hiwasaki,Irene J. Klaver,Ameyali Ramos Castillo,Veronica Strang Pdf

Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans.

Author : Edward Barsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000703795

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Retrofitting for Flood Resilience by Edward Barsley Pdf

This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, whilst highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property-level flood resilience. As a comprehensive and practical manual, this book includes richly illustrated diagrams on a variety of concepts and strategies to use when designing for flood resilience. It is vital resource for anyone looking to adapt to the threat of flood risk. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research with the Cabinet Office, Environment Agency & Local Community as well as input from academic and industry experts, homeowners and residents of communities at risk of flooding.