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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139923316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 404 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Stadtökologie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139021043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 340 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    DDC: 304.20947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1991 ; Geschichte ; Indigenes Volk ; Umweltpolitik ; Ökologie ; Human ecology / Russia (Federation) / History ; Indigenous peoples / Ecology / Russia (Federation) / History ; Environmental degradation / Russia (Federation) / History ; Environmental policy / Russia (Federation) / History ; Natur ; Umwelt ; Russia (Federation) / Environmental conditions ; Sowjetunion ; Russland ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Russland ; Sowjetunion ; Umwelt ; Natur ; Geschichte 1861-1991
    Abstract: The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781139782661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (366 Seiten)
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Print version Resilience and the Cultural Landscape
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Resilience and the cultural landscape
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Electronic books ; Kulturlandschaftswandel ; Landnutzung ; Landschaftsgestaltung ; Landschaftsschutz
    Abstract: "All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics, and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. "--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Note; PART I: CONCEPTUALISING LANDSCAPES AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience; Two views on values and changes of cultural landscapes; Challenges to cultural landscapes; Globalisation of landscapes; Landscapes of agricultural intensification and expansion; Marginalised and abandoned landscapes; Landscapes of urbanisation and land consumption; Landscapes of renewable power
    Description / Table of Contents: Nature conservation landscapesMultifunctional landscapes; Local and international action for landscapes; The cultural landscapes approach; The resilience approach; Prospects for linking landscape and resilience research; Note; References; 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes; Introduction; The changing cultural landscape; Changing perspectives on landscape governance; Landscape change and resilience; Landscapes as resilient social-ecological systems; The pursuit of 'good' landscape resilience; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Introduction; The resilience approach to social-ecological systems; The cultural landscape concept; Similarities and differences between the two approaches; Explanation of the similarities between the two approaches; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking; Introduction; The human as conceptualised in cultural landscape thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Resilience thinking versus political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesThe problem; Small-scale farming landscapes in eastern Africa, as seen from two perspectives; Where is the boundary of the system?; What is the nature of agrarian societies?; Different conceptualisations: different world views?; Understanding European small-scale landscapes; Esch landscapes in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Bocage in Bretagne; Summer farms in Sweden; The historical evidence; Some concluding thoughts; Acknowledgements; References
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II: ANALYSING LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling; Part I. Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems: 2. Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes Paul Selman; 3. From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach? Thomas Kirchoff, Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel; 4. Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking Lesley Head; 5. System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics Marie Stenseke, Regina Lindborg, Annika Dhalberg and Elin Sla;tmo; 6. Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapes Mats Widgren; Part II. Analysing Landscape Resilience: 7. In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapes Matthias Bürgi, Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger; 8. Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern Argentina Alejandro J. Rescia, Mari;a E. Pe;rez-Corona, Paula Arribas-Ureña and John W. Dover; 9. Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape development Andreas Röhring and Ludger Gailing; 10. The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological system William Found and Marta Berbe;s-Blázquez; 11. Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scales Kira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard; Part III. Managing Landscapes for Resilience: 12. Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilience Katrin Prager; 13. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systems Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist; 14. Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a future Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Jose; A. González, Berta Marti;n-López, Ce;sar A. López and Carlos Montes; 15. The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and Austria Christine Van der Stege, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl; 16. Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecology Bets ...
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521147239 , 0521197708 , 9780521147231 , 9780521197700
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 422 p) , ill. (some col.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Climate Connection : Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution
    DDC: 304.25
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    Keywords: Human evolution ; Human beings Climatic factors ; Climatic changes ; Mensch ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Analysis of climate change and human evolution, migration and behavioural change and implications for our future
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The climate connection; 1.2 Earth's changing climate; 1.3 Climate and humans; 1.4 Climate and species dominance; 1.5 What can be learned from evolutionary history?; 1.6 Back to the future; Notes; Part I: Early human history; 2 From ape to human: the emergence of hominins; 3 Human behavioural evolution; 4 The migrations and diaspora of Homo; Part II: Climate during the last glacial cycle; 5 Climate change over the last 135 000 years
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The effect of 135 000 years of changing climate on the global landscapePart III: The interaction between climate and humans; 7 The interaction between climate and humans; 8 Climate and agriculture; 9 Climate and our future; Appendices: The biological background to the story of evolution; Appendix A: Evolutionary theory; Appendix B: Developmental evolution; Appendix C: Human adaptability: the physiological foundation; References; Index
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