The Paradigm Of Forests And The Survival Of The Fittest

Author : Sergio A. Molina-Murillo,Carlos Rojas Alvarado
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315359915

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The Paradigm of Forests and the Survival of the Fittest by Sergio A. Molina-Murillo,Carlos Rojas Alvarado Pdf

This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources. Starting from the biological basis that permits the existence of forests to the use of forest resources in a modern human context, this book summarizes the interaction between humans and forest ecosystems. Designed for readers from a broad range of disciplines and interests including those from environmental sciences, environmental economics, sociology, anthropology, biology, forestry and human ecology and other related disciplines, the book evokes interest in the development of an integrated approach towards forest ecosystems and natural resources in the context of sustainability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D01935304T

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Discovering New Knowledge about Trees and Forests by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter A. Wilderer,Martin Grambow,Michael Molls,Konrad Oexle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030744588

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Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System by Peter A. Wilderer,Martin Grambow,Michael Molls,Konrad Oexle Pdf

This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity". It, therefore, understands the Gaia concept as an umbrella term for the living world that planet Earth is hosting for nearly 4 billion years. Humankind has intervened in this ecosystem since its emergence on the planet about 2.5 million years ago, often with painful consequences for itself. In its reactions, the Earth system follows only the laws of nature. Consequently, humanity needs to develop strategies for a sustainable Earth system. This volume presents a unique trans- and interdisciplinary variety of approaches to this challenge, offering philosophical considerations as well as practical medical research. It addresses a broad knowledgeable and general audience in environmental management, public administration, and higher education alike.

Author : Sen Wang,G. Cornelis van Kooten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351740364

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Forestry and the New Institutional Economics by Sen Wang,G. Cornelis van Kooten Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Using a case study from British Columbia, this book addresses the economies of institutions, institutional change and transactions costs and develops the theory of the New Institutional Economics in the context of forestry institutions. This approach to economic analysis of forestry investment problems will emphasize the understanding of the linkages between the biological as well as institutional attributes of forestry activities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015014923984

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General Technical Report NC. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Earl C. Leatherberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Snowmobiles
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977690S

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Northern Wisconsin Snowmobilers by Earl C. Leatherberry Pdf

Author : Sumit Sarkar
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : India
ISBN : 8171546587

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Issues in Modern Indian History by Sumit Sarkar Pdf

Author : W. John Coletta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030724955

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Biosemiotic Literary Criticism by W. John Coletta Pdf

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi’s Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran’s work on “modeling the environment in literature,” Edwina Taborsky’s writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer’s formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume.

Author : James C. Scott,Nina Bhatt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300085020

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Agrarian Studies by James C. Scott,Nina Bhatt Pdf

This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The contributors' fresh analyses will broaden the perspectives of readers with interests as wide-ranging as rural sociology, environmentalism, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and art history. The ten studies recast and expand what is known about rural society and agrarian issues, examining such topics as poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, ritual life, cooperation, and state action. Each contribution provides a point of departure for new study, encouraging deeper thinking across disciplinary boundaries and frontiers.

Author : Bila-Isia Inogwabini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030387280

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Reconciling Human Needs and Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes as a New Conservation Paradigm by Bila-Isia Inogwabini Pdf

Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation. Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation. However, legitimate demands formulated by countries for their economic development, growing human populations, forest fragmentations, and needs of local communities for sustainable livelihoods are also pressing demands on protected areas, stringently pressuring conservation community to identify means to reconcile long term biodiversity conservation and communities’ livelihoods. Hence, integrating conservation activities within the global framework of economic development of countries with high biodiversity had become part of conservation paradigms. Integrated development as a route to conservation, strict protected areas, community managed areas, etc. have been tried but resulted in debatable outcomes in many ways. The lukewarm nature of these results brought ‘landscape approach’ at the front of biodiversity conservation in Central Africa. Since the late 1990s the landscape approach uses large areas with different functional attributes and shifts foundational biodiversity conservation paradigms. Changes are brought to the role traditionally attributed to local communities, aligning sustainable development with conservation and stretching conservation beyond the confines of traditional protected areas. These three shifts need a holistic approach to respond to different conservation questions. There are only a few instances where the landscape experience has been scientifically documented and lessons learnt drawn into a corpus of knowledge to guide future conservation initiatives across Central Africa. To subjugate one biodiversity conservation landscape as one case study emerged as a matter of urgency to present the potential knowledge acquired throughout the landscape experiment, including leadership and management, processes tried, results (at least partially) achieved, and why such and such other process or management arrangement were been chosen among many other alternatives, etc. The challenges of the implementation of the conservation landscape approach needed also to be documented. This book responds to the majority of these questions; drawing its content from the firsthand field knowledge, it discusses these shifts and documents what has been tried, how successful (unsuccessful) it was, and what lessons learnt from these trials. Theoretical questions such as threat index, and ecological services, etc. are also discussed and gaps in knowledge are identified.

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136340604

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Alan Davey,Elizabeth Davey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630874742

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Climbing the Spiritual Mountain by Alan Davey,Elizabeth Davey Pdf

This is a guide for spiritual mountain climbers. In the Scriptures, connecting with Abba often leads to a mountain. Modern spiritual writers have long recognized this scriptural metaphor and explored the nature of this journey of ascent. Drawing on the text of the Bible, works of literature, and the writings of mystics both old and new, Climbing the Spiritual Mountain speaks of the desires and intentions, discipline, and effort involved in developing our intimacy with Christ. In Jesus' dealings with people in the Gospels, he draws them up the spiritual mountain through dialogue and questions. Like Socrates of old, his teaching method probes our thinking, knowledge, and motives. In the process, he stimulates our longing and desire to reach the summit. There are challenges, hurdles, and difficult choices to make as we climb the spiritual mountain. But the reward--approaching the beautiful One who is our Abba--far outshines any sacrifice we may make on the climb.

Author : Timothy F. H. Allen,Joseph A. Tainter,Thomas W. Hoekstra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231504072

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Supply-Side Sustainability by Timothy F. H. Allen,Joseph A. Tainter,Thomas W. Hoekstra Pdf

While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future. Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to this dilemma by integrating ecological and social science approaches in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. Written by two ecologists and an anthropologist, this book discusses organisms, landscapes, populations, communities, biomes, the biosphere, ecosystems and energy flows, as well as patterns of sustainability and collapse in human societies, from hunter-gatherer groups to empires to today's industrial world. These diverse topics are integrated within a new framework that translates the authors' advances in hierarchy and complexity theory into a form useful to professionals in science, government, and business. The result is a much-needed blueprint for a cost-effective management regime, one that makes problem-solving efforts themselves sustainable over time. The authors demonstrate that long-term, cost-effective resource management can be achieved by managing the contexts of productive systems, rather than by managing the commodities that natural systems produce.

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439126295

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett Pdf

In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.

Author : Suresh Chandra Satapathy,Swagatam Das
Publisher : Springer
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319309330

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Proceedings of First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems: Volume 1 by Suresh Chandra Satapathy,Swagatam Das Pdf

This volume contains 59 papers presented at ICTIS 2015: International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. The conference was held during 28th and 29th November, 2015, Ahmedabad, India and organized communally by Venus International College of Technology, Association of Computer Machinery, Ahmedabad Chapter and Supported by Computer Society of India Division IV – Communication and Division V – Education and Research. This volume contains papers mainly focused on ICT for Computation, Algorithms and Data Analytics etc.