Toward A Common Future

Author : William G. Rusch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532651694

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Toward a Common Future by William G. Rusch Pdf

This book provides a specific proposal for churches divided by centuries-long disputes and disagreements to move toward a vision of the unity of the church. It seeks to offer a way for divided churches to move beyond the present quagmire that challenges much of the modern ecumenical movement. Building upon the theological dialogues between the churches, this volume identifies and supplies a way for churches to regain a momentum that seems recently to have been lost in the ecumenical movement.

Author : Schismenos Alexandros Schismenos
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781551647777

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Common Futures by Schismenos Alexandros Schismenos Pdf

What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activist groups to governments and interstate organizations, all appear to be concerned with what the future of our shared world will look like. Yet even amid the ongoing global crisis caused by capitalism, the potential of a different, radically rooted future has also appeared. Common Futures explores the global emergence of twenty-first-century social movements, opposed to capitalism and state authority. These movements, Yavor Tarinski and Alexandros Schismenos show, transcend traditional political forms of organization and try to form autonomous networks premised on direct democracy and solidarity. The authors identify the importance of grassroots movements, which can bring radical change and create a more democratic and ecological future.Common Futures examines the social and political roots of the environmental crisis and the relationship between ecology and direct democracy. But Tarinski and Schismenos go beyond the analysis of crises, contemporary struggles, and social movements: Common Futures also clarifies the conditions for the re-creation of free public time and space and point to practical steps that we can take to alleviate the problems of our future.

Author : Iris Borowy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135961299

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future by Iris Borowy Pdf

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Policy Division,Board on Sustainable Development
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309086387

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Our Common Journey by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Policy Division,Board on Sustainable Development Pdf

World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century. How can the transition to a stabilizing population also be a transition to sustainability? How can science and technology help to ensure that human needs are met while the planet's environment is nurtured and restored? Our Common Journey examines these momentous questions to draw strategic connections between scientific research, technological development, and societies' efforts to achieve environmentally sustainable improvements in human well being. The book argues that societies should approach sustainable development not as a destination but as an ongoing, adaptive learning process. Speaking to the next two generations, it proposes a strategy for using scientific and technical knowledge to better inform future action in the areas of fertility reduction, urban systems, agricultural production, energy and materials use, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation, and suggests an approach for building a new research agenda for sustainability science. Our Common Journey documents large-scale historical currents of social and environmental change and reviews methods for "what if" analysis of possible future development pathways and their implications for sustainability. The book also identifies the greatest threats to sustainabilityâ€"in areas such as human settlements, agriculture, industry, and energyâ€"and explores the most promising opportunities for circumventing or mitigating these threats. It goes on to discuss what indicators of change, from children's birth-weights to atmosphere chemistry, will be most useful in monitoring a transition to sustainability.

Author : Iris Borowy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135961220

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future by Iris Borowy Pdf

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.

Author : David Willis-Watkins,Michael Welker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802844675

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Toward the Future of Reformed Theology by David Willis-Watkins,Michael Welker Pdf

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Toward the Future of Reformed Theology brings together the voices of leading contemporary Reformed theologians from around the world, providing a unique summary of the range and wealth of Reformed theology today and exploring its potential for the future. These thirty-one essays consider the task of Reformed theology in the modern world, give Reformed perspectives on key theological themes, and suggest fruitful present-day trajectories of Reformed thought from the past. Contributors: Brian GerrishM Janos Pasztor Nobuo Watanabe Choan-Seng Song Edmund Za Bik Wafiq Wahba John de Gruchy Jürgen Moltmann Michael Welker Beatriz Melano Thomas Torrance David Willis William Placher Alexander McKelway Leanne Van Dyk Christian Link Lukas Vischer Walter Herrenbrück Nancy Duff Hans-Joachim Kraus John Leith Willem Balke Hans- Helmut Esser Dawn DeVries Jan Milic Lochman John Hesselink Sang Hyun Lee Amy Plantinga Pauw Bruce McCormack Daniel Migliore Eberhard Busch

Author : Sarah Jaquette Ray,Jay Sibara
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803278455

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Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Sarah Jaquette Ray,Jay Sibara Pdf

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between “wild” and “built” environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing “disability.” Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. With a historical scope spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this collection not only presents the foundational documents informing this intersection of fields but also showcases the most current work, making it an indispensable reference.

Author : Carl Mitcham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786611284

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Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering by Carl Mitcham Pdf

The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the importance of technologies as material entities and their mediating influence within human experience. Recent decades, however, have witnessed a subtle shift toward reflection on the activity from which these distinctly modern artifacts emerge and through which they are engaged and managed, that is, on engineering. What is engineering? What is the meaning of engineering? How is engineering related to other aspects of human existence? Such basic questions readily engage all major branches of philosophy --- ontology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics --- although not always to the same degree. The historico-philosophical and critical reflections collected here record a series of halting steps to think through engineering and the engineered way of life that we all increasingly live in what has been called the Anthropocene. The aim is not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate deeper reflection among engineers and non-engineers alike about some basic challenges of our engineered and engineering lifeworld.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:0018387021A

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Overview of U.S. Policy Toward South America and the President's Upcoming Trip to the Region by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Pdf

Author : Xavier Pavie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811243240

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Toward Responsible Innovation: Responsibility And Philosophy For A Humanely Sustainable Future by Xavier Pavie Pdf

For fifty years, innovations have taken on a new dimension: the Internet, DNA sequencing, genomic manipulations, advances in transhumanism, nanotechnologies ... and much more. These recent innovations are not without addressing new issues whose consequences are as important as irreversible. The innovator, of whom Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are emblematic contemporary figures, appears as a personality as brilliant as he is destructive, who aspires to change the world regardless of the violence that may ensue. With this then, emerges the need to establish responsible innovation, in which the innovator should be accountable for his actions and review his position as a hero. To establish this new ethic, philosophy is a necessary recourse, since it questions, among other things, the self-control of the Stoics, the prudence of Aristotle, respect of Kant, the will power of Nietzsche and the power of Foucault.

Author : Herman E. Daly
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780807047057

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For The Common Good by Herman E. Daly Pdf

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0195531914

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Our Common Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789090203409

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For the time being. Accounting for inconclusive findings concerning the effects of temporary employment relationships on solidary behavior of employees by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carlos Del Ama,Carlos del Ama
Publisher : Carlos del Ama
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781434329929

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Toward a New World Order by Carlos Del Ama,Carlos del Ama Pdf

The international relations have developed prevailing the law of the strongest. The result is the Empire. The author analyzes the present American Empire and he compares it with the international relations within the European Union, but What is the European Union? Why have a European Union? What is the European Union for? On examining the identity, reason and mission of the European Union this book contributes to eliminating the ideological deficit, which is still argued and underlies the difficulties involved in approving the Constitution. Also the Islamic fundamentalism is analyzed, explaining its ideology. Finally, the author proposes a model to harmonize the international relations in a globalised world and to assure peace.

Author : Masa Noguchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319319674

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ZEMCH: Toward the Delivery of Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes by Masa Noguchi Pdf

In this book, leading international experts explore the emerging concept of the zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) – designed to meet the need for social, economic, and environmental sustainability – and provide all of the knowledge required for the delivery of zero energy mass customized housing and community developments in developed and developing countries. The coverage is wide ranging, progressing from explanation of the meaning of sustainable development to discussion of challenges and trends in mass housing, the advantages and disadvantages of prefabricated methods of construction, and the concepts of mass customization, mass personalization, and inclusive design. A chapter on energy use will aid the reader in designing and retrofitting housing to reduce energy demand and/or improve energy end‐use efficiency. Passive design strategies and active technologies (especially solar) are thoroughly reviewed. Application of the ZEMCH construction criteria to new buildings and refurbishment of old houses is explained and the methods and value of building performance simulation, analyzed. The concluding chapter presents examples of ZEMCH projects from around the world, with discussion of marketing strategy, design, quality assurance, and delivery challenges. The book will be invaluable as a training/teaching tool for both students and industry partners.