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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed ? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren ? Is the world sick ? Can it be healed ? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature-nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is made. Without this notion, we didn't have a way to describe the scale and scope of human impact upon nature. This idea was "the environment."In this fascinating book, Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans' capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. Now we had a vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution, and-eventually-climate change.With the rise of "the environment," the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet. The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces today.

Environmental sciences --- Human ecology. --- Nature --- SCIENCE / History. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Philosophy. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Philosophie de l'environnement. --- Écologie humaine. --- Effets de l'homme. --- Écologie humaine.

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The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in organization, looking at the field thematically through such categories as climate, disease, oceans, the body, energy, consumerism, and international relations.

World history --- Effets de l'homme --- Human ecology --- Environmental sciences --- Nature --- Environmental sciences. --- Human ecology. --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Effect of human beings on. --- Écologie humaine --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Histoire. --- Ecologie humaine --- Homme --- Histoire --- Influence sur la nature

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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.

Nature --- Human beings --- Human ecology --- Naturalness (Environmental sciences) --- Effect of human beings on --- Philosophy --- Effect of environment on --- Philosophy. --- Naturalness (Environmental sciences). --- Environmental sciences --- Philosophy of nature --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Philosophie de la nature --- Écologie humaine --- Effets de l'homme --- 130.2 --- ecologie --- biologie --- filosofie --- cultuurfilosofie --- E-books --- antropoceen --- Effect of human beings on&delete& --- Effect of environment on&delete& --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- #SBIB:17H17 --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Milieu en ethiek --- Philosophie de la nature. --- Écologie humaine. --- Effets de l'homme. --- Nature - Effect of human beings on - Philosophy --- Human beings - Effect of environment on - Philosophy --- Human ecology - Philosophy --- wilderness. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Human Geography.

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This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution.

Ecotourism --- Japanese macaque --- Mammal populations --- Wildlife management --- Wildlife viewing sites --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Sites, Wildlife viewing --- Sites, Wildlife watching --- Viewing areas, Wildlife --- Viewing sites, Wildlife --- Watching sites, Wildlife --- Wildlife viewing areas --- Wildlife watching sites --- Natural areas --- Blinds (Hunting) --- Animal populations --- Game management --- Management, Game --- Management, Wildlife --- Plant populations --- Wildlife resources --- Natural resources --- Wildlife conservation --- Vertebrate populations --- Macaca fuscata --- Snow monkeys --- Macaques --- Behavior. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Management --- Japanese macaque. --- Macaque japonais --- Faune --- Ecotourisme --- Mammifères --- Behavior --- Effect of human beings on --- Moeurs et comportement --- Effets de l'homme sur --- Observation --- Sites --- Aménagement --- Populations

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This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world.

Rivers. --- Nature --- Global environmental change. --- Stream health. --- Stream ecology. --- River ecology --- Freshwater ecology --- Hyporheic zones --- Health, River --- Health, Stream --- River health --- Riverine health --- Ecosystem health --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Effect of human beings on. --- Cours d'eau. --- Changement global de l'environnement. --- Cours d'eau --- Effets de l'homme. --- Conservation. --- Climatic changes --- river, water use, environment, environmentalism, nature, science, conservation, preservation, dams, diversion, waterways, mississippi, murray-darling, united states, danube, europe, china, australia, pollution, ganges, india, ob, siberia, biodiversity, habitat, restoration, ecosystem, nonfiction, environmental change, stream, health, ecology, amazon, nile, congo, chang jiang, mackenzie.