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Author : Norman Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : 1853651230
Author : Herbert Girardet
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856750973
In the last 100 years global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50%. Urban growth patterns are changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. This atlas addresses these key issues, and analyses the problems of expanding cities.
Author : Myers
Publisher : Gaia Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1856751104
Author : John R. Beaumont,BRIAN WHITAKER,LENE PEDERSEN
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483292885
Managing the Environment offers an interdisciplinary and multi-functional management approach to the environmental issues affecting business practice.Many of the books published on this subject have so far been written by environmental scientists or from a strictly economic viewpoint. Managing the Environment aims to redress the balance by considering the impacts of environmental issues on various management functions, including accounting and finance, marketing, production and operations, information systems and organizational behaviour and culture. Each chapter includes review and study questions, and case studies form an important part of the book. An up-to-date and practical text Many examples and cases A multi-functional management approach
Author : David Christian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520950672
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings. Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population and environmental studies—all figure in David Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of "Big History." Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe, the stars and the galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth, and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the birth of the modern, industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures. Sweeping in scope, finely focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world history—and Big History—true as never before to its name.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Tom Jagtenberg,David McKie
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781452248523
Addressing a growing need to examine environmental issues from a cultural perspective, this innovative book adopts a cultural studies approach to reach a deeper understanding of the significance of ecological issues in our lives. Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity explores such vital questions as: Can nature survive? How do academic disciplines engage with environmental crises? And, how do we map sustainable futures? The authors, Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie, bring a body of relevant literature into the debate - that stems from both cultural and environmental issues - as well as their own multidisciplinary perspectives on the subject.
Author : Peder Anker
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780807146231
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. By exploring key moments of inspiration between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the 1980s, Anker traces the historical intersection of architecture and ecological science and assesses how both remain intertwined philosophically and pragmatically within the still-evolving field of ecological design. The idea that science could improve human life attracted architects and designers who looked to the science of ecology to better their methodologies. Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, taught that designed form should follow the laws of nature in order to function effectively. With the Bauhaus movement, ecology and design merged and laid the foundation of modernist architecture. Anker discusses in detail how the former faculty members of the Bauhaus school -- including László Maholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer -- left Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s and engaged with ecologists during their "London period" and in the U.S. A subsequent generation of students and admirers of Bauhaus, such as Richard Buckminster Fuller and Ian McHarg, picked up their program, and -- under the general banner of merging art and science in the design process -- Bauhaus-minded architects began to think ecologically while some ecologists lent their ideas to design. Anker charts complicated currents of ecological design thought spanning pre-- and post--World War II and through the cold war, including pivotal changes such as the emergence of space exploration and new theories on closed-system living in space capsules, space stations, and planetary colonies. Space ecology, Anker explains, inspired leading landscape designers of the 1970s, who used the imagined life of astronauts as a model for how humans should live in harmony with nature. Theories of how to design for extraterrestrial living impacted design and ecological thinking for earth-based living as well, as evidenced in Disney's Spaceship Earth attraction as well as in the Biosphere 2 experiments in Arizona in the early 1990s. Illuminating important connections between theories about the relationship between humans and the built environment, Anker's provocative study provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness.
Author : Nicky Chambers,Craig Simmons,Mathis Wackernagel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317972174
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
Author : Julian Burger
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Doubleday
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026039219
Reveals the struggles of the world's native peoples to preserve their way of life and the natural environments they inhabit.
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0930242432
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781619040090
Author : John Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134668540
Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that scientists have predicted and speculated on as leading to apocalypse. In the first comprehensive survey, potential catastrophes - ranging from deadly diseases to high-energy physics experiments - are explored to help us understand the risks. One of the greatest threats facing humankind, however, is the insurmountable fact that we are a relatively young species, a risk which is at the heart of the 'Doomsday Argument'. This argument, if correct, makes the dangers we face more serious than we could have ever imagined. This more than anything makes the arrogance and ignorance of politicians, and indeed philosophers, so disturbing as they continue to ignore the manifest dangers facing future generations.
Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139467506
What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious instrumental value which gives individuals and groups the opportunity to pursue the invention of humanity rather than live determined and diminished lives. Booth suggests that human society globally is facing a set of converging historical crises. He looks to critical social theory and radical international theory to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding the historical challenges facing global business-as-usual and for planning to reconstruct a more cosmopolitan future. Theory of World Security is a challenge both to well-established ways of thinking about security and alternative approaches within critical security studies.
Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230508408
In 1997, thirty years after the demise of 'Swinging London', Britain again seemed to be the centre of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a new Labour government and a young and enterprising prime minister. 'Cool Britannia' seemed to sum up the new spirit of the 1990s in the hip language of the 1960s. In this book, Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond.
