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Author : Max Oelschlaeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Environmental Imperative written by Max Oelschlaeger and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Orr
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267007
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Hope Is an Imperative written by David W. Orr and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory.This volume brings together his most important works.
Author : Frank Vanclay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Environmental Imperative written by Frank Vanclay and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text for tertiary students of rural and environmental sociology, first published in 1995. Examines the relationship between the degradation of the environment and the social relations of production in agriculture, from a sociological perspective. Designed to develop a critical sociological approach to understanding of the social aspects of land degradation. Includes references and an index. Chapters Two and Five have been previously published. The authors worked at the centre for social research at Charles Sturt University.
Author : Bruce Doern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Environmental Imperative, Chapter 1 written by Bruce Doern and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429851804
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the most dynamic, active criticisms to emerge in recent times. However, even in its institutional success, ecocriticism has exemplified an "ocean deficit." That is, ecocriticism has thus far primarily been a land-based criticism stranded on a liquid planet. Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative contributes to efforts to overcome ecocriticism’s "ocean-deficit." The chapters explore a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory, and criticism. By examining the relationships between these representations of ocean and cultural imaginaries, Blue Ecocriticism works to unmoor ecocriticism from its land-based anchors. This book aims to simultaneously advance blue ecocriticism as an intellectual pursuit within the environmental humanities and to advocate for ocean conservation as derivative of that pursuit.
Author : Michael P. Gillingham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331922123X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Integration Imperative written by Michael P. Gillingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.
Author : Erling Holden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134338481
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Imperatives of Sustainable Development written by Erling Holden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.
Author : Gabor Zovanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415630142
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The No-growth Imperative written by Gabor Zovanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounting evidence reveals that the existing scale of human enterprise has already surpassed global ecological limits to growth. This ecological reality clearly counteracts the possibility of continued exponential growth in the twenty-first century. In the absence of international, national, or state initiatives to implement a no-growth imperative founded on ecological limits, this book takes the position that local communities have an obligation to take the lead in promoting a new politics of sustainability directed at recognizing and ...
Author : J. Stoner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230115438
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative written by J. Stoner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Author : Charles A. Flink
Publisher : University of Florida Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683401155
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Greenway Imperative written by Charles A. Flink and published by University of Florida Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trailblazing greenway projects from vision to reality In this eye-opening journey through some of America's most innovative landscape architecture projects, Charles Flink shows why we urgently need greenways. A leading authority in greenway planning, design, and development, Flink presents inspiring examples of communities that have come together to build permanent spaces for the life-sustaining power of nature. The Greenway Imperative reveals the stories behind a variety of multiuse natural corridors, taking readers to Grand Canyon National Park, suburban North Carolina, the banks of the Miami River, and many other settings. Flink, who was closely involved with each of the projects in this book during his 35-year career, introduces the people who jumpstarted these initiatives and the challenges they overcame in achieving them. Flink explains why open green spaces are increasingly critical today. "Much more than a path through the woods," he says, greenways conserve irreplaceable real estate for the environment, serve as essential green infrastructure, shape the way people travel within their communities, reduce impact from flooding and other natural disasters, and boost the economies of cities and towns. Greenways can and should dramatically reshape the landscape of America in the coming years, Flink argues. He provides valuable reflections and guidance on how we can create resilient communities and satisfy the human need for connection with the natural world.
Author : Horst Mendershausen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Political Economy and the Environmental Imperative written by Horst Mendershausen and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lenox
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503629627
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Decarbonization Imperative written by Michael Lenox and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is of the essence. Climate change looms as a malignant force that will reshape our economy and society for generations to come. If we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we are going to need to effectively "decarbonize" the global economy by 2050. This doesn't mean a modest, or even a drastic, improvement in fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. It means 100 percent of the cars on the road being battery-powered or powered by some other non-carbon-emitting powertrain. It means 100 percent of our global electricity needs being met by renewables and other non-carbon-emitting sources such as nuclear power. It means electrifying the global industrials sector and replacing carbon-intensive chemical processes with green alternatives, eliminating scope-one emissions—emissions in production—across all industries, particularly steel, cement, petrochemicals, which are the backbone of the global economy. It means sustainable farming while still feeding a growing global population. Responding to the existential threat of climate change, Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff propose a radical reconfiguration of the industries contributing the most, and most harmfully, to this planetary crisis. Disruptive innovation and a particular calibration of industry dynamics will be key to this change. The authors analyze precisely what this might look like for specific sectors of the world economy—ranging from agriculture to industrials and building, energy, and transportation—and examine the possible challenges and obstacles to introducing a paradigm shift in each one. With regards to existent business practices and products, how much and what kind of transformation can be achieved? The authors assert that markets are critical to achieving the needed change, and that they operate within a larger scale of institutional rules and norms. Lenox and Duff conclude with an analysis of policy interventions and strategies that could move us toward clean tech and decarbonization by 2050.
Author : J. E. Pratley
Publisher : Csi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Agriculture and the Environmental Imperative written by J. E. Pratley and published by Csi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a definitive and positive contribution to the significance, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian agriculture and highlights the underpinning role of science in environmental issues.
Author : European Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Environmental Imperative written by European Council and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug McKenzie-Mohr
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412991293
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Social Marketing to Protect the Environment written by Doug McKenzie-Mohr and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social marketing takes key marketing principles and applies them to campaigns and efforts to influence social action. In Social Marketing to Protect the Environment, the focus turns to the environment, and how social marketing can be successful to change environmental behaviour. The text begins with a definition of the Social Marketing Model and includes a discussion of various tools that can be used to develop social marketing strategies. It then moves into sections on Residential-Related Behaviours and Commercial-Related Behaviours. These sections follow a consistent format and: - Describe a variety of environmental issues - Give examples of the numerous changes in behaviours and/or practices that would contribute to reducing the problem - Provide mini-cases that illustrate the successful use of social marketing principles along with tools to influence this behaviour in similar situations - Review what worked and what could have been improved. A final section provides future directions and recommendations.
Author : Carrie R. Rich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415530350
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Sustainability for Healthcare Management written by Carrie R. Rich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book focuses readers on upstream decision-making in the healthcare delivery setting to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It aims to link health values with sustainability drivers in order to enlighten leadership about the value of sustainability as we move toward a new paradigm of health. Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, and Seema Wadhwa explore leadership priorities, linking them to sustainability, through an imaginary health leader, Fred, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Memorial Hospital, a community hospital based in the United States. Each chapter frames a leadership priority through a storyline that involves the main character. Practical applications featuring evidence-based sustainability accomplishments and the coordinating reflections of renowned healthcare leaders are woven throughout the book. Every chapter includes leadership tools, illustrations and tables with tips and data to make an evidence-based case in support of health sustainability. The book includes a healthcare sustainability syllabus as well as suggested reading and teaching resources. Bringing together the key components and concepts of environmentally sustainable healthcare operations, this book will be of great importance to researchers, students and professionals working in health and healthcare management."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558443471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Nature and Cities written by Frederick R. Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compilation of essays by leading international landscape architects, city planners, urban designers, and architects about the need for ecological urban design. Chapters explore the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities, including urban green spaces, streetscapes, and buildings"--
