| Author | : Ben Fairweather,Sue Elworthy,Matt Stroh,Piers H.G. Stephens |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Release Date | : 1999-04-12 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1349272655 |
| Pages | : 230 pages |
The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example, new technologies, paths in social and political theory, methodologies). It is divided into three sections, moving from social constructions of 'the environment' in the first section to questions of green political theory and practice in the second, and concluding with issues of environmental risk and future technologies. The work is interdisciplinary, with contributors ranging from philosophers to human geographers.
| Author | : Jeremy M. Campbell |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Release Date | : 2015-12-21 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0295806192 |
| Pages | : 256 pages |
Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.
| Author | : J. Alcamo |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Release Date | : 2008-10-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780080932989 |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
As scientists and policymakers try to come to grips with problems such as climate change and risks to biodiversity, they turn more and more frequently to the method of scenario analysis to better understand the future of these problems. Over the last few years scenario analysis has become one of the key tools for bridging environmental science and policy. This is the first book to sum up the current practice of environmental scenario analysis and to propose directions for improving its quality and effectiveness. Chapters are written by an international group of distinguished scenario experts and provide an excellent starting basis for first-time scenario practitioners, as well as a collection of new ideas on improving scenario practice for experienced scenario analysts. * Comprehensive coverage and overview on environmental scenario analysis from a team of international experts * First book to address key contemporary issues involved with environmental scenario analysis * Gives guidelines for best practices Benefits: * Excellent starting base for first-time scenario practitioners * Helps the reader to interpret scenarios and to place them into the correct context
| Author | : Colin Porteous |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2019-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781527528161 |
| Pages | : 593 pages |
This book addresses the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture, and in a holistic manner. It moves gradually from psychophysiology and thinking-doing-feeling modalities, through environmental criteria to environmental modulation, concluding with a debate around mitigation and adaptation. Much use is made of re-interpreting past quotations seen as relevant for environmental architecture. No definitive conclusions are reached, but rather broad discursive messages are offered. The text will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.
| Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Panel on Environmental Science and Technology |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1976 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : J. Alcamo |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Release Date | : 2008-10-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780080932989 |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
As scientists and policymakers try to come to grips with problems such as climate change and risks to biodiversity, they turn more and more frequently to the method of scenario analysis to better understand the future of these problems. Over the last few years scenario analysis has become one of the key tools for bridging environmental science and policy. This is the first book to sum up the current practice of environmental scenario analysis and to propose directions for improving its quality and effectiveness. Chapters are written by an international group of distinguished scenario experts and provide an excellent starting basis for first-time scenario practitioners, as well as a collection of new ideas on improving scenario practice for experienced scenario analysts. * Comprehensive coverage and overview on environmental scenario analysis from a team of international experts * First book to address key contemporary issues involved with environmental scenario analysis * Gives guidelines for best practices Benefits: * Excellent starting base for first-time scenario practitioners * Helps the reader to interpret scenarios and to place them into the correct context
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 37 pages |
| Author | : Jessica Barnes |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Release Date | : 2016-05-09 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781119278320 |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present
| Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Drinking Water Committee |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Director Department of Energy and Environmental Studies Torleif Haugland,Torleif Haugland,Helge Ole Bergesen,Kjell Roland |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780198233602 |
| Pages | : 328 pages |
The authors examine the history and prospects of the European energy sector, the impact of environmental policies on it and the regulatory structures that govern it. The period they consider ranges from the 1970s to the 2020s.
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Jonathan Paul Marshall,Linda H. Connor |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2015-08-27 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1317690818 |
| Pages | : 286 pages |
Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and acting towards the future involves efforts of imagination that are linked to our sense of being in the world and the ecological pressures we experience. The three key ideas of this book – ecologies, ontologies and mythologies – help us understand the ways people in many different societies attempt to predict and shape their futures. Each chapter places a different emphasis on the linked domains of environmental change, embodied experience, myth and fantasy, politics, technology and intellectual reflection, in relation to imagined futures. The diverse geographic scope of the chapters includes rural Nepal, the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Sweden, coastal Scotland, North America, and remote, rural and urban Australia. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, psychology and politics.