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Author : Jozef Keulartz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Deep ecology
ISBN : 0415180937
The Struggle for Nature presents a well researched and erudite survey of the historical development and current state of environmantal thinking.
Author : Jozet Keulartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134677641
The Struggle for Nature outlines and examines the main aspects of current environmental philosophy including deep ecology, social and political ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism. It criticises the dependency on science of these philosophies and the social problems engendered by them. The author argues for a post-naturalistic turn in environmental philosophy. The Struggle for Nature presents the most up-to-date arguments in environmental philosophy, which will be valuable reading for students of applied philosophy, environmental studies and geography.
Author : James Tabery
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262549608
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture. If everyone now agrees that human traits arise not from nature or nurture but from the interaction of nature and nurture, why does the “nature versus nurture” debate persist? In Beyond Versus, James Tabery argues that the persistence stems from a century-long struggle to understand the interaction of nature and nurture—a struggle to define what the interaction of nature and nurture is, how it should be investigated, and what counts as evidence for it. Tabery examines past episodes in the nature versus nurture debates, offers a contemporary philosophical perspective on them, and considers the future of research on the interaction of nature and nurture. From the eugenics controversy of the 1930s and the race and IQ controversy of the 1970s to the twenty-first-century debate over the causes of depression, Tabery argues, the polarization in these discussions can be attributed to what he calls an “explanatory divide”—a disagreement over how explanation works in science, which in turn has created two very different concepts of interaction. Drawing on recent developments in the philosophy of science, Tabery offers a way to bridge this explanatory divide and these different concepts integratively. Looking to the future, Tabery evaluates the ethical issues that surround genetic testing for genes implicated in interactions of nature and nurture, pointing to what the future does (and does not) hold for a science that continues to make headlines and raise controversy.
Author : Carmen Soliz,Rossana Barragán
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826366405
The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Enriched by the extractivism and commodity frontiers approaches to world history, the book treats Bolivia's political struggles over natural resources as long-term processes that outlast immediate political events. Exploration of the Bolivian case invites dialogue and comparison with other parts of the world, particularly regions and countries of the so-called Global South. The book begins by examining three Bolivian resources at the center of political dispute since the early colonial period, namely land, water, and minerals. Carmen Soliz, Rossana Barragán, and Sarah Hines show that, as in the colonial and early republican past, these resources have remained the focus of political contention to the present day. Until the end of the nineteenth century, Bolivia's battle over natural resources was primarily concentrated in the highlands and inter-Andean valleys. Beginning in the 1860s, the bicycle and soon the automobile industries triggered demand for natural rubber found in the heart of the Amazon. José Orsag analyzes the impact of this extractive economy at the turn of the twentieth century. The book concludes by examining two resources that are central to understanding the last century of Bolivia's history. Kevin Young examines the fraught business of hydrocarbons, and Thomas Grisaffi analyzes the coca/cocaine circuit. Each chapter studies the social dynamics and political conflicts that shaped the processes of extraction, exchange, and ownership of each of these resources
Author : Roger N. Lancaster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520236203
Lancaster provides the disproof of evolutionary stories about men, women, and the nature of desire of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene.
Author : Gregory J. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521804325
An examination of longstanding foundational controversies in the philosophy of ecology.
Author : Devon G. Peña
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550821
Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.
Author : Gaston Maspero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Assyria
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5416
Author : Mara J. Goldman,Paul Nadasdy,Matthew D. Turner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226301419
In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development.
Author : George Paulin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : PRNC:32101058082254
Author : Maximilian Viatori,Héctor Bombiella,Hector Andres Bombiella Medina
Publisher : Critical Green Engagements: In
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816539291
"This book shines a light on how changes to Peru's fishing policies and fishery management affect the lives of impoverished artisanal fisherman"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Author : Sarah Besky,Alex Blanchette
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826360861
We now live on a planet that is troubled—even overworked—in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals. In India, a prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.
Author : American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Farmers' institutes
ISBN : WISC:89048621247
Author : Neall W. Pogue
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501762017
In The Nature of the Religious Right, Neall W. Pogue examines how white conservative evangelical Christians became a political force known for hostility toward environmental legislation. Before the 1990s, this group used ideas of nature to help construct the religious right movement while developing theologically based, eco-friendly philosophies that can be described as Christian environmental stewardship. On the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, members of this conservative evangelical community tried to turn their eco-friendly philosophies into action. Yet this attempt was overwhelmed by a growing number in the leadership who made anti-environmentalism the accepted position through public ridicule, conspiracy theories, and cherry-picked science. Through analysis of rhetoric, political expediency, and theological imperatives, The Nature of the Religious Right explains how ideas of nature played a role in constructing the conservative evangelical political movement, why Christian environmental stewardship was supported by members of the community for so long, and why they turned against it so decidedly beginning in the 1990s.