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The interaction between humans and their natural environment today is unprecedented in its scope and complexity, and recent scholarly research attests to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to fully study it. Mappae Mundi answers this call for a scholarly synthesis, illuminating dominant social trends affecting the relationship between human societies and the environment.Contributors discuss this relationship, and analyze several different possibilities for the future. Mappae Mundi will appeal to social scientists or anyone interested in the current and future consequences of our interaction with the natural environment.

Human ecology. --- Anthropology. --- Human beings --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on

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"Universities continue to expand bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities fall short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever changing and challenging environment. This book centres on the idea that the expansion of higher education has opened new spaces and possibilities. The university is inter-connected with a number of ecosystems: knowledge, social institutions, culture, individuals, learning, the economy and the natural environment. These seven ecosystems of the university are all fragile and in order to advance and develop them, universities need to engage with each one. By looking at matters such as the challenges of learning, professional life and research and inquiry, this book outlines just what it could mean for higher education institutions to understand and realise themselves as exemplars of the ecological university. With bold and original insights and practical principles for development, this radical and transformative book is essential reading for university leaders and administrators, academics, students, and all interested in the future of the university" --

Universities and colleges --- Social ecology. --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Environmental aspects. --- Ecological university. --- Social sciences --- Social ecology --- Environmental aspects

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Nature --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Effect of human beings on --- History. --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on

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"The survival of planet Earth's nourishing life systems ultimately depends on how we humans think about them. Unfortunately, our culture's assumptions about the way the world works ignore recent scientific understanding of life systems. This book explains the interdependency and delicate balance of biological, geological, and chemical systems as environmental scientists now understand them. It communicates a new way of thinking." "Written in everyday language as a conversation between two neighbors, Learning to Think Environmentally is illustrated with cartoons by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles. It demonstrates that learning the basic principles of environmental thinking is essential to our social, physical, economic, and spiritual well being. This new way of thinking is urgently needed in our public discourse if we are to take a sustainable pathway to the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Environmental education. --- Environmental responsibility. --- Social ecology. --- Education --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Social sciences --- Ecological accountability --- Ecological responsibility --- Environmental accountability --- Environmental ethics --- Responsibility

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Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on