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Gift Ecology

Author : Peter H. Denton
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1927330408
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Gift Ecology written by Peter H. Denton and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global sustainability in the 21st century seems to be an elusive goal. There are too many issues, too many problems--and, increasingly, too many people--to make the major changes required in the time various experts tell us we have left before it's too late. To create a sustainable future, we need to change the game itself. We cannot simply try to solve our problems one at a time. Instead, we need to reimagine sustainability in all its dimensions--social, cultural, environmental and economic--to create a global system that reflects how we should be living together, one that generates both hope and possibility. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Denton argues that the attitudes and values associated with the economics of exchange are in part to blame for our current situation. We need to rediscover what it means to live in a universe of relations, not merely in one that can be counted and measured. The more we are able to replace an economy based on transactions with an ecology based on gifts, the more likely a sustainable future becomes for all of Earth's children.

The Ecology Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465488421
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Ecology Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about species, environments, ecosystems and biodiversity in The Ecology Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Ecology in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Ecology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Ecology, with: - More than 90 of the greatest ideas in ecology - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Ecology Book is a captivating introduction to what’s happening on our planet with the environment and climate change, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover more than 90 of the greatest ideas when it comes to understanding the living world and how it works, through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Ecological Questions, Simply Explained How do species interact with each other and their environment? How do ecosystems change? What is biodiversity and can we afford to damage it? This fresh new guide looks at our influence on the planet as it grows, and answers these profound questions. If you thought it was difficult to learn about this field of science, The Ecology Book presents the information in a clear layout. Learn the key theories, movements, and events in biology, geology, geography, and environmentalism from the ideas of classical thinkers in this comprehensive guide. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Ecology Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Entangled Life

Author : Merlin Sheldrake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510338
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Life written by Merlin Sheldrake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. “Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

The Wondrous Workings of Science and Nature Coloring Book

Author : Rachel Ignotofsky
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 059323314X
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Wondrous Workings of Science and Nature Coloring Book written by Rachel Ignotofsky and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant and absorbing coloring book that offers 40 intricate line drawings created by the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Women in Science. Rachel Ignotofsky's beloved books Women in Science and The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth bring science and nature to brilliant life through gorgeous and illuminating illustrations. Now, with The Wondrous Workings of Science and Nature Coloring Book, she offers fans a chance to participate in her intricate and informative artwork, and learn fascinating facts while coloring. You'll discover and explore ecosystems large and small, from reefs and rainforests to ponds and backyard gardens, the inner workings of a single cell, and even a collection of lab tools. Perfect for nature lovers of all ages, this is an utterly charming educational guide to the world we live in.

Community Ecology

Author : Jared M. Diamond
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Community Ecology written by Jared M. Diamond and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pluralistic approach to community ecology.

A Citizen's Guide to Ecology

Author : Lawrence B. Slobodkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019803685X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to Ecology written by Lawrence B. Slobodkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earth is continuously changing and evolving yet it is unclear how environmental changes will affect us in years to come. What changes are inevitable? What changes, if any, are beneficial? And what can we do as citizens of this planet to protect it and our future generations? Larry Slobodkin, one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology, offers compelling answers to these questions in A Citizen's Guide to Ecology. He provides many insights into ecology and the processes that keep the world functioning. This important guide introduces observations that underlie arguments about all aspects of the natural environment--including both global and local issues. To clarify difficult concepts, Slobodkin uses lake, ocean, and terrestrial ecosystems to explain ecological energy flows and relationships on a global scale. The book presents a clear and current understanding of the ecological world, and how individual citizens can participate in practical decisions on ecological issues. It tackles such issues as global warming, ecology and health, organic farming, species extinction and adaptation, and endangered species. An excellent introduction and overview, A Citizen's Guide to Ecology helps us to understand what steps we as humans can take to keep our planet habitable for generations to come. "This beautifully written book brings together careful observation, personal reflection, and theoretical understanding to explain the major environmental problems that confront us. Dr. Slobodkin's superb and sweeping work invites us to contemplate a great many facts and a few large values to motivate a clear and compelling response to losses of biodiversity, the problem of invasive species, global warming, and other environmental concerns."--Mark Sagoff, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

Robot Ecology

Author : Magnus Egerstedt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691230072
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Robot Ecology written by Magnus Egerstedt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new framework that draws on insights from ecology for the design and analysis of long-duration robots Robots are increasingly leaving the confines of laboratories, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, venturing into agriculture and other settings where they must operate in uncertain conditions over long timescales. This multidisciplinary book draws on the principles of ecology to show how robots can take full advantage of the environments they inhabit, including as sources of energy. Magnus Egerstedt introduces a revolutionary new design paradigm—robot ecology—that makes it possible to achieve long-duration autonomy while avoiding catastrophic failures. Central to ecology is the idea that the richness of an organism’s behavior is a function of the environmental constraints imposed by its habitat. Moving beyond traditional strategies that focus on optimal policies for making robots achieve targeted tasks, Egerstedt explores how to use survivability constraints to produce both effective and provably safe robot behaviors. He blends discussions of ecological principles with the development of control barrier functions as a formal approach to constraint-based control design, and provides an in-depth look at the design of the SlothBot, a slow and energy-efficient robot used for environmental monitoring and conservation. Visionary in scope, Robot Ecology presents a comprehensive and unified methodology for designing robots that can function over long durations in diverse natural environments.

Human Ecology

Author : Gerald G Marten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136535012
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Human Ecology written by Gerald G Marten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The scope and clarity of this book make it accessible and informative to a wide readership. Its messages should be an essential component of the education for all students from secondary school to university... [It] provides a clear and comprehensible account of concepts that can be applied in our individual and collective lives to pursue the promising and secure future to which we all aspire' From the Foreword by Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Council and former Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) The most important questions of the future will turn on the relationship between human societies and the natural ecosystems on which we all, in the end, depend. The interactions and interdependencies of the social and natural worlds are the focus of growing attention from a wide range of environmental, social and life sciences. Understanding them is critical to achieving the balance involved in sustainable development. Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development presents an extremely clear and accessible account of this complex range of issues and of the concepts and tools required to understand and tackle them. Extensively supported by graphics and detailed examples, this book makes an excellent introduction for students at all levels, and for general readers wanting to know why and how to respond to the dilemmas we face.

Earth Days

Author : William Dritschilo
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595338208
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Earth Days written by William Dritschilo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Days details the events of the revolution in ecology initiated by the publication of Silent Spring from the perspective of someone involved in its events. It is a book having to do with ideas and the people who held them. Earth Days starts with Rachel Carson and the other writers and scientists whose words caught the attention of the public on Earth Day. It tells about the Odum brothers from the corn pone South, champions of the ecosystem idea, Robert MacArthur, the "James Dean" of ecology, and Jared Diamond, who tried to be his successor and in the effort set off a war in ecology. It tells about Dan Simberloff, who rebelled against the science inspired by his own mentors in that war. It tells about Paul Ehrlich and David Pimentel, for whom no environmental issue was beyond their expertise. It also tells about Gene Likens, who looked and acted more like an insurance salesman, yet found a way through the swirling controversies in his science to put it to good practical use. There are, of course, many others, each trying to find their own personal way in the broad, important science that is ecology. Earth Days details that revolution from the perspective of someone involved in its events. It also gives the reader the necessary background to follow the most technical material. Difficult material becomes easy, lively reading. --Howard V. Cornell (University of Delaware): "Fantastic! It kept me up all night. I couldn't put it down." --Nicholas Gotelli (University of Vermont): "It is very lively and fun to read." --Daniel Simberloff (University of Tennessee): "...an excellent and engaging writer...appears to be a really major and interesting book." --David Pimentel (Cornell University): "...fantastic job of writing to capture the views of numerous ecologists!" --Gene Likens (New York Botanical Garden): "I learned some things about myself."

Connecting Ecologies

Author : Patrick Riordan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100095403X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Connecting Ecologies written by Patrick Riordan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and biological processes but also allows for the contributions of theology, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, including the implications for the human and social sciences. The contributions document four categories of resonances, resources, requirements, and responses evoked by a reading of Laudato Si’ and include consideration of other faith traditions. They reflect on how care for our common home motivates people in different places, cultures, and professions to cooperate for myriad goods in common. The volume is particularly relevant for scholars working in religious studies and theology with an interest in ecology, the environment, and the Anthropocene.

Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation

Author : Oswald J. Schmitz
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265985
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation written by Oswald J. Schmitz and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting today’s environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of ecological science and their applications, offering an essential overview of the way ecology can be used to devise strategies to conserve the health and functioning of ecosystems. The book begins by exploring the need for ecological science in understanding current environmental issues and briefly discussing what ecology is and isn’t. Subsequent chapters address critical issues in conservation and show how ecological science can be applied to them. The book explores questions such as: • What is the role of ecological science in decision making? • What factors govern the assembly of ecosystems and determine their response to various stressors? • How does Earth’s climate system function and determine the distribution of life on Earth? • What factors control the size of populations? • How does fragmentation of the landscape affect the persistence of species on the landscape? • How does biological diversity influence ecosystem processes? The book closes with a final chapter that addresses the need not only to understand ecological science, but to put that science into an ecosystem conservation ethics perspective.

Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy

Author : Kimberly Lenters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648235
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy written by Kimberly Lenters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of sensation, affect, ethics, and place on literacy learning from early childhood through to adult education. Chapters bridge the divide between theory and practice to consider how contemporary teaching and learning can promote posthuman values and perspectives. By offering a posthuman approach to literacy research and pedagogy, Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy re-works the theory-practice divide in literacy education, to emphasize the ways in which learning is an affective and embodied process merging in a particular environment. Written by literacy educators and international literacy researchers, this volume is divided into four sections focussing on: Moving with sensation and affect; becoming worldmakers with ethics and difference; relationships that matter in curriculum and place; before drawing together everything in a concise conclusion. Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy is the perfect resource for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of literacy education and philosophy of education, as well as those seeking to explore the benefits of a posthumanism approach when conceptualising theory and practice in literacy education.

Technology and Sustainability

Author : Peter Denton
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 177160039X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Sustainability written by Peter Denton and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The developed world is increasingly obsessed with two things: electronic gadgets and our changing climate. We stand in open-mouthed awe at our technological achievements while dejectedly shrugging our shoulders at the state of the planet on which we live. Our choice is clear: we need to reimagine the way in which we engage with the technology we create. Peter Denton's first RMB manifesto, Gift Ecology: Reimagining a Sustainable World, focused on interpersonal relationships as the foundation for a vibrant and ecologically sustainable society. In his second thought-provoking book in the series, the author challenges readers to use our cherished technologies in new ways. We need to think of our devices not merely as better rocks and sharper spears, but as profound extensions of our hearts and minds that we can use to change the world. Technology is in our heads, not in our hands. If we don't like what our technologies are doing to the world and to ourselves, then we all have both the power and the responsibility to make better choices today than we did yesterday. Technology and Sustainability redefines our relationship with technology and offers ways in which we can use these tools to make the world a better place through enlightened and positive engagements. If systems of technology have multiplied individual choices into global problems, then it means those same systems can multiply better choices into the global solutions we need for a sustainable future.

The Gifts of Mother Earth

Author : Erika Abonyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578629421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Gifts of Mother Earth written by Erika Abonyi and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children experience the wonders of Mother Earth after planting a single seed that replenishes the world with a bounty of trees. They create a precious memory together, leading to a desire to make the world a more beautiful place. Written in tender prose, this is a story about being grateful for nature and its cycle of seasons

Human Ecology

Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917383
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Human Ecology written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to contribute to a future where both nature and people thrive. Human ecology is the study of the interrelationships between humans and their environment, drawing on diverse fields from biology and geography to sociology, engineering, and architecture. Steiner admirably synthesizes these perspectives through the lens of landscape architecture, a discipline that requires its practitioners to consciously connect humans and their environments. After laying out eight principles for understanding human ecology, the book’s chapters build from the smallest scale of connection—our homes—and expand to community scales, regions, nations, and, ultimately, examine global relationships between people and nature. In this age of climate change, a new approach to planning and design is required to envision a livable future. Human Ecology provides architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners—and students in those fields— with timeless principles for new, creative thinking about how their work can shape a vibrant, resilient future for ourselves and our planet.

Digging the City

Author : Rhona McAdam
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1927330211
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Digging the City written by Rhona McAdam and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada's population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada's ability to feed the urban poor; our dependence on imported foods and centralized food processing; our detachment from our food sources; the often problematic solutions to food security devised by governments, municipalities and non-profit groups; and where we are headed if we change nothing in these times when change is urgently needed. Many efforts are being made to introduce urban agriculture initiatives all across the country, to address the problems we've created and to protect our cities from real and potential crises in the food supply. With passion and lyricism, Digging the City addresses the problems facing urban omnivores in the 21st century and looks at various policy, grassroots and utopian solutions being developed and implemented, while considering the pros and cons of plans such as vertical farms, urban fish farms, transition-town initiatives, seed banks, permaculture and water conservation projects.

Becoming Water

Author : Michael Demuth
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1926855728
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Water written by Michael Demuth and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Water takes the reader on a tour of Canada's glaciers, describing the stories they tell and educating the reader about how glaciers came to be, how they work and what their future holds in our warming world. By visiting Canada's high and low Arctic and the mountain West, the reader will learn how varied and complex our glaciers really are, how they are measured and how they figure into the national and global story of inevitable change. The reader will learn to think like a scientist, in particular how to look at climate-related data that contains cycles, trends and shifts, and then ponder what questions to ask in the face of our dramatically changing environment. This book encourages Canadians to explore upstream from ourselves, learning about our origins and how climate change and encroaching human settlement are drastically affecting our glaciers and therefore the natural and human landscapes that lie below--and are dependent upon--them.