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Imagining Extinction
We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Heise argues that understanding these stories and symbols is indispensable for any effective advocacy on behalf of endangered species. More than that, she shows how biodiversity conservation, even and especially in its scientific and legal dimensions, is shaped by cultural assumptions about what is valuable in nature and what is not.
The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.
El fracaso del desarrollo y la opción por el buen vivir
La obra tiene como objetivo mostrar las inconsistencias y debilidades teóricas y prácticas que presenta el paradigma del desarrollo, cuyas consecuencias han sido contrarias al bienestar humano que prometió y, sobre todo, negativas contra la naturaleza. Ante ello, se señalan diferentes alternativas de vida al desarrollo que se utilizan y promueven en distintas partes del mundo, básicamente retornando las enseñanzas ancestrales y reacondicionándolas para las circunstancias actuales. Presentamos un modelo que busca impulsar la noción del buen vivir en el sur de Jalisco, México, a través de la vinculación de las comunidades, con académicos y estudiantes universitarios, vía el fomento de la agroecología, las economías alternativas (como la solidaria), así como el diálogo transdisciplinar de saberes. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52501/cc.034
Energising Networks
Society is going through a transition period that is at least as profound as the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century. It is a transition that makes people look differently at each other and at the world. In the terminology of Otto Scharmer, ego-consciousness is being replaced by eco-consciousness: people will understand that their faith depends on one another and on the eco-systems they are part of. This will not occur without a whole lot of trouble; but it will happen. This book by Eelke Wielinga and Sjoerd Robijn is an inspirational contribution to understanding what is going on. Firstly, because their vision on networks as living organisms, and the energy people experience when t...
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Impact of Global Changes on Mountains
Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the world's population. Their ecosystems play a critical role in sustaining human life both in the highlands and the lowlands. During recent years, resource use in high mountain areas has changed mainly in response to the
