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İçinde bulunduğumuz dünyayı anlamak, yaşamda zaman ve mekân bağlamında kendimizi konumlandırmak coğrafi bilincin bir sonucudur. Coğrafi bilinç dünyayı, ülkesini, yakın çevresini doğal ve beşeri varlığıyla en iyi biçimde tanımayı, bu farkındalığın sayesinde de onu hem sahiplenmeyi hem de onu koruyarak ondan en iyi biçimde yararlanmayı sağlar. Ki korumak, planlamayı ve geleceği öngörerek düzenlemeyi de içinde barındırır. Coğrafi bilinç sahibi bireyler olabilmek bir yanıyla coğrafi bilgiyi diğer yanıyla da coğrafi becerileri kazanmaktan geçer. Kuşkusuz tutumlarımız, kimliğimiz ve değerlerimiz coğrafi bilinçle karar verme mekanizmamızı d...
Deals with management of student conduct in the classroom, which is the number one area of concern for many teachers. This book includes discussions and real-life cases with reference to the influence of Chinese culture on Hong Kong classrooms. It covers topics such as managing behaviour, establishing classroom rules, and conveying authority.
Contains over one hundred pieces that span four decades of creative work.
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide.
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories. Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste, contamination, nuclear energy and expropriation. A diverse range of environments and environmental actors are covered, including ...
Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in the understanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example applications. The intellectual path of the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand is a key foundation for this book. His research contributions are shown in the context of the urbanization of Sweden, involvement in the emerging planning sector and empirical studies on Swedish emigration. Migration and innovation diffusion studies paved the way for prioritizing time and space dimensions and recognizing time and space as unity. From these insights time-geography grew. Thi...
What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent—eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation. Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But has the environmental movement actually brought about meaningful progress toward global sustainability? Signs of global “unsustainability” are everywhere, from decreasing biodiversity to scarcity of fresh water to steadily rising greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, ...