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This reference resource is an online-only compendium of maps and data sets accompanied by multimedia elements, to illustrate key concepts in green issues and environmentalism graphically and interactively. Topics for the maps presented were selected from articles in the 12-volume 'SAGE Reference Series on Green Society'. Each map includes links to one or more of the series' articles. Maps include interactive components, with clickable icons to deliver the data and statistics that make up each map. Photos, video and audio clips and transcripts accompany map themes and presentations.
Human ecology --- Sustainability --- Human ecology. --- Sustainability.
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"Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, Eighth Edition provides emphasis on the scientific process throughout the book gives readers the structure to develop their critical thinking skills. Updated and revised to include the latest research in the field, the eighth edition continues to present a balanced analytical and interdisciplinary approach to the field. New streamlined text clears away the "jargon" to bring the issues and the science to the forefront. The new design and updated image program highlights key points and makes the book easier to navigate"--
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"Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Human ecology --- History
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In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners- examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the
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Japan at Nature's Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections.The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan's history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds.Contributors: Daniel P. Aldrich, Jakobina Arch, Andrew Bernstein, Philip C. Brown, Timothy S. George, Jeffrey E. Hanes, David L. Howell, Federico Marcon, Christine L. Marran, Ian Jared Miller, Micah Muscolino, Ken'ichi Miyamoto, Sara B. Pritchard, Julia Adeney Thomas, Karen Thornber, William M. Tsutsui, Brett L. Walker, Takehiro Watanabe.
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Japan at Nature's Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan's history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds. -- Publisher's website.
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Erschöpfte Menschen, eine erschöpfte Gesellschaft und ein erschöpfter Planet führen zur Frage, ob wir noch zu retten sind oder das Ende unserer Wohlstandsgesellschaft absehbar ist. In bunten Essays und Erfahrungsberichten über die Menschen schildert und erklärt der Autor unser derzeitiges Verhalten. In modernen Gesellschaften mit Veränderungen der Leistungs- und Zeitmaßstäbe, der Internetkultur mit neuen Informations- und Kommunikationswegen und einem überbordenden Konsum- und Verschwendungsverhalten leiden Menschen an Verhaltensauffälligkeiten oder dem sogenannten Burn out. Das aber sei im besten Fall eine vorübergehende Anpassungsstörung des Menschen, verursacht durch ein sich derzeit rasant wandelndes Biotop. Mit einem Blick auf unsere Entwicklungsgeschichte und die Ergebnisse aktueller Hirn- und Systemforschung kommt der Autor zur Überzeugung, dass wir mit einer anwendbaren Jetzt-Philosophie und dementsprechend artgerechten Erfahrungsräumen in unseren Gesellschaften zu innerem Wachstum gelangen, um so Gegenwart und Zukunft bestens zu meistern. Homo sapiens hat die ungeheure Kraft, Glück, Zufriedenheit und eine gelingende Zukunft zu gestalten, da er ein Allrounder und der an besten angepasste 'Affe' der Welt ist. Um uns den großen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und Zukunft zu stellen und uns anzupassen, bedarf es nicht nur forcierter Wissensbildung, sondern umfassender Förderung von Basiskompetenzen und Charakter- und Persönlichkeitsbildung. Das ist nicht nur Aufgabe Nr. 1 in Gesellschafts-, Bildungs-, Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen, sondern auch die jedes Einzelnen. Wir alle – und jeder persönlich – können jetzt und sofort beginnen, notwendige Bewältigungskompetenzen wachzurufen und zu trainieren, um zu persönlicher innerer Meisterschaft und einem zufriedenen, erfüllten Leben zu gelangen. Zu all den derzeitigen medialen Untergangs- und Horrorszenarien bezüglich unserer Zukunft ergibt sich hier eine lösungsorientierte, optimistische Zukunftsperspektive, wenn wir unseren Klagen über eine erschöpfte Gesellschaft und Burn out-Phänomenen ein selbstwirksames, kräftiges und optimistisches 'Burn on' entgegensetzen.
Philosophical anthropology --- Conduct of life --- Human ecology
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