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Elementos De Ecologia Y Educacion Ambiental Para La Sostenibilidad Del Planeta Tierra
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Book Synopsis Education for Sustainable Development Goals by : Rieckmann, Marco
Download or read book Education for Sustainable Development Goals written by Rieckmann, Marco and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The North American Mosaic by : Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Download or read book The North American Mosaic written by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Educación Ambiental para un planeta sostenible by : Joan Estrada Aguilar
Download or read book Educación Ambiental para un planeta sostenible written by Joan Estrada Aguilar and published by Ediciones Octaedro. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los múltiples problemas que acechan a la Tierra y a sus habitantes: la falta de conciencia ecológica, el calentamiento global, la desertización, la deforestación, el deshielo de los polos, la degradación de la calidad del aire y del agua, los vertidos de plásticos, el consumo insostenible, la planificación territorial insensata y los cambios de uso del suelo, así como la productividad lineal, los monocultivos en la agroindustria, los vertidos contaminantes o la pérdida de biodiversidad, suponen un grave peligro para la vida y una dramática amenaza para las generaciones futuras. Este libro pretende estimular la conciencia sobre la importancia del desastre ecológico que vivimos y la urgencia de afrontarlo. No ofrece la solución al problema, pero aporta argumentos y numerosas y variadas herramientas didácticas para reforzar la educación ambiental orientada a niñas y niños en edades escolares. Esta obra, de autoría numerosa, diversa e internacional, consta de diez capítulos que buscan situar el respeto hacia la naturaleza y la lucha por la sostenibilidad en el eje central de la acción educativa. Está dedicada a todas las personas comprometidas con la educación ambiental, que desde diferentes ámbitos y con distintas responsabilidades, intentan salvar el planeta.
Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi written by Dennis Dalton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of Gandhi's methods and the strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, drawing a fascinating juxtaposition that enriches the biography of all three figures and asserts Gandhi's relevance to the study of race and political leadership in America. Dalton situates Gandhi within the "clash of civilizations" debate, identifying the implications of his work on continuing nonviolent protests. He also extensively reviews Gandhian studies and adds a detailed chronology of events in Gandhi's life.
Book Synopsis Agroecology by : Stephen R. Gliessman
Download or read book Agroecology written by Stephen R. Gliessman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents powerful arguments against "Environmental Racism", "Incrementalism" and the "Impotence of Planning." Explores case studies of urban planning, county policies, residential development and more. Submits the authors recommendations for preserving the delicate balance of Floridas ecosystem.
Book Synopsis Connectivity Conservation by : Kevin R. Crooks
Download or read book Connectivity Conservation written by Kevin R. Crooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest threats to the survival of many plant and animal species is the destruction or fragmentation of their natural habitats. The conservation of landscape connections, where animals, plants, and ecological processes can move freely from one habitat to another, is therefore an essential part of any new conservation or environmental protection plan. In practice, however, maintaining, creating, and protecting connectivity in our increasingly dissected world is a daunting challenge. This fascinating volume provides a synthesis on the current status and literature of connectivity conservation research and implementation. It shows the challenges involved in applying existing knowledge to real-world examples and highlights areas in need of further study. Containing contributions from leading scientists and practitioners, this topical and thought-provoking volume will be essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners working in conservation biology and natural resource management.
Book Synopsis Engaging People in Sustainability by : Daniella Tilbury
Download or read book Engaging People in Sustainability written by Daniella Tilbury and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
Book Synopsis Envisioning a Sustainable Society by : Lester W. Milbrath
Download or read book Envisioning a Sustainable Society written by Lester W. Milbrath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.
Book Synopsis A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves by : UNESCO
Download or read book A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agroecosystem Sustainability by : Stephen R. Gliessman
Download or read book Agroecosystem Sustainability written by Stephen R. Gliessman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroecologists from around the world share their experiences in the analysis and development of indicators of agricultural sustainability in Agroecosystem Sustainability: Developing Practical Strategies. The authors build on the resource-conserving aspects of traditional, local, and small-scale agriculture while at the same time drawing on modern e
Download or read book The Green Web written by Martin Holdgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Book Synopsis Educación, medio ambiente y sustentabilidad by : Edgar Javier González Gaudiano
Download or read book Educación, medio ambiente y sustentabilidad written by Edgar Javier González Gaudiano and published by Siglo XXI. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El debate sobre el desarrollo sustentable se ha extendido al campo de la educación. Esto ha sido resultado sobre todo de la declaratoria del Decenio de las Naciones Unidas de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sustentable (2005-2014), si bien la controversia se había iniciado desde mediados de la década de los años noventa, sobre todo a partir de la circulación del documento base mediante el cual se convocó a la conferencia Internacional sobre Ambiente y Sociedad: Educación y Conciencia Pública para la Sustentabilidad, convocada por la UNESCO y el gobierno de Grecia, en Tesalónica en 1997. Diversas posturas a favor y en contra dentro de la comunidad los educadores ambientales han nutrido con variados puntos de vista este debate. Un debate que no se restringe a defender la identidad del gremio, ni a recursar sin fundamento una propuesta institucional encabezada por la UNESCO. Se trata de una disputa por la construcción del tipo de sociedad al que aspiramos. Asunto en el que los procesos educativos desempeñan un papel de primer orden. Como quiera, con el pretexto de la década se ha reactivado una discusión que era necesaria dentro del campo de la educación ambiental, desedimentando numerosos tópicos que requerían ser revisados a profundidad, no sólo debido a la lábil y vertiginosa realidad de los tiempos actuales, sino por los precarios resultados de los procesos educativos de cara al problema del progresivo deterioro de nuestro entorno vital. Dichos resultados han sido consecuencia de numerosos factores, nos corresponde revisar por qué los procesos educativos han operado dentro de la gestión ambiental con una perspectiva eminentemente instrumental. Y, por qué en la gestión educativa, la educación ambiental ha terminado por acomodarse dentro de la castrante estructura de un currículo que ya ha perdido todas sus posibilidades heurísticas. Un currículum escolar, como la Escuela misma en su conjunto, que requiere también una revisión de fondo porque los valores que trasmite son insustentables. Sin embargo, la respuesta a todo esto no es la educación para el desarrollo sustentable y algunas de las razones que convalidan esta postura se encuentran en este libro. Así, esta obra reúne a once distintos autores de México, España, Canadá, Australia, Sudáfrica y Nueva Zelanda que exponen sus puntos de vista sobre las implicaciones de la educación para el desarrollo sustentable, sobre el propio Decenio de Naciones Unidas y sobre el campo de la educación ambiental. Son trabajos indispensables para quienes se encuentran en estas tareas o pretenden adscribirse a ellas. Son trabajos críticos también para los educadores en general, pues este debate trasciende este campo e irradia consecuencias para el campo social en su conjunto.
Book Synopsis Carbon-Energy Taxation by : Mikael Skou Andersen
Download or read book Carbon-Energy Taxation written by Mikael Skou Andersen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and the UK followed suit with tax reforms that shifted taxation from labour to carbon and energy. Over the years, CO2 and energy taxes have gradually been raised, so that in Europe taxes of more than 25 billion Euros a year have been shifted. This book examines carbon-energy taxation in detail and looks at tax shifting programmes for lowering other taxes. It offers extensive analysis on the basis of historical data and seeks to answer important questions for policy-making, such as: What was the impact of tax shifting for economic performance and competitiveness? By how much were emissions of CO2 reduced? Could energy-intensive industries cut further down on their fuel demand or did they loose market shares? To what extent was there 'leakage' from Europe, so that production and CO2 emissions were shifted to other countries or regions without CO2-abatement policy? The use of unique and original data, including sector-specific energy prices and taxes, as well as the use of advanced statistical techniques, such as co-integration analysis and panel-regression techniques along with the time-series estimated macro-economic model E3ME, make this a truly comprehensive volume. On the basis of the lessons learned in Europe, this volume indicates how carbon-energy taxation could usefully be combined with emissions trading, and discusses implications for future international climate policy, including how the IPCC recommendations for a gradual escalation in carbon price could be accomplished while preventing carbon leakage.
Book Synopsis A Prosperous Way Down by : Howard T. Odum
Download or read book A Prosperous Way Down written by Howard T. Odum and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy. A Prosperous Way Down considers ways in which a future with less fossil fuel could be peaceful and prosperous. Although history records the collapse of countless civilizations, some societies and ecosystems have managed to descend in orderly stages, reducing demands and selecting and saving what is most important. The authors make recommendations for a more equitable and cooperative world society, with specific suggestions based on their evaluations of trends in global population, wealth distribution, energy sources, conservation, urban development, capitalism and international trade, information technology, and education. Available for the first time in paperback, this thoughtful, pigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah—where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American history—and the history of coal development in Utah form the second part. Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and decimation. The book's final part moves from Washington D.C.—and an examination of coal, CO2, and national energy policy—back to Utah, for a tour of a coal mine, and a consideration of the Crandall Canyon mine cave-in, back to Wales and the closing of the oldest operating deep mine in the world and then to a look at energy alternatives, especially wind power, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas by : Nora Clichevsky
Download or read book Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas written by Nora Clichevsky and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.
Book Synopsis CATASTROPHE OR NEW SOCIETY - A LATIN AMERICAN WORLD MODEL. by : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Download or read book CATASTROPHE OR NEW SOCIETY - A LATIN AMERICAN WORLD MODEL. written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: