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Author : Max Oelschlaeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043738074
Author : Frank Vanclay,Geoffrey Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000112556158
Text for tertiary students of rural and environmental sociology, first published in 1995. Examines the relationship between the degradation of the environment and the social relations of production in agriculture, from a sociological perspective. Designed to develop a critical sociological approach to understanding of the social aspects of land degradation. Includes references and an index. Chapters Two and Five have been previously published. The authors worked at the centre for social research at Charles Sturt University.
Author : Michael P. Gillingham,Greg R. Halseth,Chris J. Johnson,Margot W. Parkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319221236
The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.
Author : David W. Orr
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597267007
The author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory.This volume brings together his most important works.
Author : Bruce Doern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608013633
Author : Erling Holden,Kristin Linnerud,David Banister,Valeria Jana Schwanitz,August Wierling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134338481
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.
Author : G. Bruce Doern,C.D. Howe Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:35128001028867
Canada enters the 1990s in the midst of its first serious confrontation with the realities of good environmental policy-making. The papers in this volume are seen in the context of 6 features of the environmental policy process. Each deals with a central aspect of Canadian political and economic life - political parties and public opinion, markets and the choice of policy instruments, federal-provincial relations, environmental interests and policy consultation, problems of scientific and technological controversy, and the cabinet-bureaucratic decision process.
Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429851803
This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the most dynamic, active criticisms to emerge in recent times. However, even in its institutional success, ecocriticism has exemplified an "ocean deficit." That is, ecocriticism has thus far primarily been a land-based criticism stranded on a liquid planet. Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative contributes to efforts to overcome ecocriticism’s "ocean-deficit." The chapters explore a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory, and criticism. By examining the relationships between these representations of ocean and cultural imaginaries, Blue Ecocriticism works to unmoor ecocriticism from its land-based anchors. This book aims to simultaneously advance blue ecocriticism as an intellectual pursuit within the environmental humanities and to advocate for ocean conservation as derivative of that pursuit.
Author : Michael Lewis,Pat Conaty
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550925050
“[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible.” —The Environmental Magazine We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy. The authors present a comprehensive series of strategic questions within the broad areas of: Energy sufficiency Local food systems Interest-free financing Affordable housing and land reform Sustainable community development Each section is complemented by case studies of pioneering community initiatives rounded out by a discussion of transition factors and resilience reflections. With a focus on securing and sustaining change, this provocative book challenges deeply embedded cultural assumptions. Profoundly hopeful and inspiring, The Resilience Imperative affirms the possibilities of positive change as it is shaped by individuals, communities, and institutions learning to live within our ecological limits. “Resilience is the watchword for our dawning era of economic and environmental instability . . . The Resilience Imperative is exactly what’s needed to get us moving in the right direction.” —Richard Heinberg, author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival “Exceptionally valuable—in vision, in strategic understanding, in concrete ways to build forward. A handbook for a morally meaningful and sustainable future!” —Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism
Author : Horst Mendershausen,Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : IND:39000001125082
Author : J. Stoner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230115439
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Author : James Gordon Nelson,Lucy M. Sportza
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380840
"Based on a workshop on Regional Approaches to Parks and Protected Areas in North America, held at Tijuana, Mexico, March 1999"--p. xv.
Author : Carrie R. Rich,J. Knox Singleton,Seema S. Wadhwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415530354
"Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book focuses readers on upstream decision-making in the healthcare delivery setting to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It aims to link health values with sustainability drivers in order to enlighten leadership about the value of sustainability as we move toward a new paradigm of health. Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, and Seema Wadhwa explore leadership priorities, linking them to sustainability, through an imaginary health leader, Fred, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Memorial Hospital, a community hospital based in the United States. Each chapter frames a leadership priority through a storyline that involves the main character. Practical applications featuring evidence-based sustainability accomplishments and the coordinating reflections of renowned healthcare leaders are woven throughout the book. Every chapter includes leadership tools, illustrations and tables with tips and data to make an evidence-based case in support of health sustainability. The book includes a healthcare sustainability syllabus as well as suggested reading and teaching resources. Bringing together the key components and concepts of environmentally sustainable healthcare operations, this book will be of great importance to researchers, students and professionals working in health and healthcare management."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Gabor Zovanyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415630146
Mounting evidence reveals that the existing scale of human enterprise has already surpassed global ecological limits to growth. This ecological reality clearly counteracts the possibility of continued exponential growth in the twenty-first century. In the absence of international, national, or state initiatives to implement a no-growth imperative founded on ecological limits, this book takes the position that local communities have an obligation to take the lead in promoting a new politics of sustainability directed at recognizing and ...
Author : J. E. Pratley,Alistar I. Robertson
Publisher : Csi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89070934690
This text offers a definitive and positive contribution to the significance, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian agriculture and highlights the underpinning role of science in environmental issues.