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Islands of Hope : Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific.
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ISBN: 1760465623 1760465615 Year: 2023 Publisher: Canberra : ANU Press,

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"In the Pacific, as elsewhere, Indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits such actions may generate within the global system. National and international policy frameworks ultimately rely on local community assent. Without effective local participation and partnership, these extremely imposed frameworks miss out on millennia of local observation and understanding and seldom deliver viable and sustained environmental, cultural and economic benefits at the local level. This collection argues that environmental sustainability, indigenous political empowerment and economic viability will succeed only by taking account of distinct local contexts and cultures. In this regard, these Pacific Indigenous case studies offer 'islands of hope' for all communities marginalised by increasingly intrusive--and increasingly rapid--technological changes and by global dietary, economic, political and military forces with whom they have no direct contact or influence." - taken from publisher website.

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Bulharské texty k překladatelskému semináři.
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ISBN: 8021078928 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství,

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The publication Bulgarian text for Translation Seminar part 3 is mainly for students, studying Bulgarian as a foreign language on Masaryk university at masters degree. It contains texts from different spheres - insurance, finance, family law, sports, home appliances, ecology, culture, media, agriculture, etc. Each text ends with exercises to use certain phrases in an appropriate context, ie. the authors pay attention to learning the phrases and constructions needed in the practice of future translators.

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Bible and Ecology : rediscovering the community of creation
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press,

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Richard Bauckham embarks on a biblical investigation into the relationship between human beings and the rest of creation. Bauckham argues that there is much more to the Bible's understanding of this relationship than the mandate of human dominion given in Genesis 1--which, he writes, has too often been used as a justification for domination and exploitation of the earth's resources. Instead, Bauckham considers the ecological perspectives found in the book of Job, the Psalms, and the Gospels, all of which, he determines, require a re-evaluation of the biblical tradition of "dominion." Bauckham discovers a tradition of a "community of creation" in which human beings are fellow members with God's other creatures and true reconciliation to God involves the entire creation. --

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Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Canberra : ANU Press,

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Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.

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Planetary health : safeguarding human health and the environment in the Anthropocene
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ISBN: 1108613608 1108698050 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are now unavoidable, through actions that both improve health and safeguard the environment. But humanity must do more than just adapt: we need transformative changes across many sectors - energy, housing, transport, food, and health care. The book discusses specific policies, technologies, and interventions to achieve the change required, and explains how these can be implemented. It presents the evidence, builds hope in our common future, and aims to motivate action by everyone, from the general public to policymakers to health practitioners.

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Environnement et santé : Progrès scientifiques et inégalités sociales
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : Editions de la Sorbonne,

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"Le progrès scientifique et technologique a été longtemps accompagné d'une connotation positive, tant il a contribué à l'amélioration du bien-être individuel et collectif au XXe siècle. Le présent ouvrage tend à montrer que la réalité du XXIe siècle est peut-être sensiblement différente des représentations traditionnelles de l'idée de progrès et se propose d'explorer l'une de ses faces sombres, celle des inégalités qu'il génère. Le changement climatique aujourd'hui - ou le voisinage des installations polluantes à travers les âges - et les injustices environnementales qu'ils produisent, les bulles technologiques, les déserts médicaux ou les expérimentations en santé, pouvant aller jusqu'à l'augmentation technologique des êtres humains, révèlent des inégalités qu'il est intéressant de débusquer dans les deux secteurs de l'environnement et de la santé, choisis, pour le premier en ce qu'il est présenté comme victime du progrès, pour le second en ce qu'il est reconnu comme la voie triomphale du progrès. Il est apparu aussi nécessaire de relier ces inégalités à la question sociale, que les actuels soulèvements populaires posent de manière aiguë, et qui doit être traitée par le droit. Les différents contributeurs, par un croisement des disciplines juridique, sociologique, philosophique, géographique, ont mis en lumière la gravité de certaines situations discriminatoires engendrées par le progrès. Leurs réflexions peuvent contribuer à préparer l'entrée dans l'ère de la robotique, avant que les droits des robots viennent coexister avec les droits de l'Humanité ou les concurrencer".

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Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times : a critical atlas of the Anthropocene
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Lüneburg, Germany : meson press,

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"Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times offers a critical exploration of the Anthropocene concept. It addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch. How are we to rethink landscapes, such as river deltas, oceans, or outer space? How can we create spaces for resistance and utopic dreaming? This volume confronts these questions by charting how space and place are constructed, deconstructed, and negotiated by humans and non-humans under conditions of globally entangled consumption, movement, and contamination. The essays in this volume are complemented by artistic interventions that offer a poetics for a harmed planet and the numerous worlds it contains"--Publisher's description.

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Milieux naturels, espaces sociaux : Études offertes
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Year: 1997 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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Robert Delort se distingue par l'ampleur et l'originalité du champ de sa réflexion historique. Il a abordé, grâce à sa maîtrise des méthodes de la recherche historique les plus diversifiées, de la linguistique à l'archéologie, des statistiques à l'analyse littéraire et iconographique, aussi bien l'histoire économique, sociale et politique du Moyen Âge, que celle des comportements ou encore de la biologie des espèces animales. Il n'est donc pas étonnant que Robert Delort ait orienté ses recherches et celles de ses élèves vers l'histoire des relations de l'homme avec son environnement, histoire dont il fut l'un des pionniers. Il a donné en particulier une impulsion décisive à l'histoire du monde animal. De plus, en élargissant la réflexion à la fois sur le plan chronologique et géographique bien au-delà de la période médiévale et de l'Occident européen, il propose une investigation globale du devenir historique qui séduit ses auditeurs et ses lecteurs en France comme à l'étranger. Le volume des études présentement offertes à Robert Delort par ses amis et élèves, s'ouvrant sur une préface de Jacques Le Goff, veut témoigner de la globalité méthodologique, thématique, chronologique et géographique de sa pensée historique.

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Local resources, territorial development and well-being
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ISBN: 1789908612 Year: 2020 Publisher: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing,

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"This timely book explores both the diversity of local resources and the interrelated issues concerning the concept of well-being. Drawing conclusions from diverse settings from across Europe and the US, chapters first begin with an analysis of the nature of local resources. The book then moves on to unpack the concept of well-being. It sheds light on topics such as the impact of urban design on health and the connection between amenities and social justice. Featuring key case studies supporting its theoretical foundations, the authors convincingly argue for a more comprehensive view of local resources and well-being from a territorial perspective. Providing unique and innovative insights into the significance of place-specific resources and well-being, this book is of particular interest to human geography, planning, economics and sociology scholars. Chapters also feature a strong emphasis on policy recommendations"--

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Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region : sea changes
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Year: 2021 Publisher: London, England : UCL Press,

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The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea's shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea's retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral'sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.

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