Inspirado en la propuesta del Papa Francisco en Laudato si acerca del concepto de Ecología Integral como modelo de convivencia en la Casa Común, este Anuario tiene como objetivo servir de plataforma para la comunicación y el intercambio académico en torno a una perspectiva de la Salud humana concebida como inescindible de lo socioambiental.
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking.
Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and accessories to murder.
Der Plastik-Fußabdruck – Plastik im AlltagRachel Salt, Umweltbiologin und Wissenschaftsautorin aus Kanada, hat sich dem Thema Plastikmüll verschrieben.
Der Plastik-Fußabdruck – Plastik im AlltagRachel Salt, Umweltbiologin und Wissenschaftsautorin aus Kanada, hat sich dem Thema Plastikmüll verschrieben.
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable.
As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world.
No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides.
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions.
This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.
This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies.
This volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter between tradition and modern western evolutionary thought.
This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world's leading interdisciplinary ecologists - Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison.
This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws.
This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.
The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs.
Enseñar ciencias, conceptos, ideas o términos relacionados a personas que estén no matriculadas en un curso formal o a estudiantes que llegan a las aulas con sus conocimientos cotidianos hace necesario simplificar el lenguaje, de forma que sea posible su adecuada comprensión.
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.
Este libro que aquí presentamos forma parte de un proyecto de investigación más amplio cuyo objetivo es recuperar las narrativas populares de resistencia ante megaproyectos que implican diversos tipos de extractivismo.
El reconocimiento del otro y la otra representa una denuncia al individualismo exacerbado que se deriva del sistema neoliberal que pervive en todas las esferas sociales.
Una estación meteorológica posible se constituye en una herramienta, no sólo para la recolección de valiosos datos en lugares apartados, sino también como un excelente ejercicio académico para que niños y estudiantes conozcan algunos conceptos de clima e identifiquen patrones del tiempo atmosférico y su relación con la vida diaria (e.
From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.
Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change.