From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene.
Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations.
Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought.
This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development.
This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.
This book pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of quantum mechanics.
Many contemporary commentators present a damning account of the current state of higher education, to the extent that our universities may be considered to be broken.
The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world.
Esta obra es una invitación para todos aquellos que creemos en la diversidad, en que cada persona es única y que la suma de potencialidades cambia su historia.
Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.
Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving.
In terms of China's current situation, the prevention and control of land degradation and the development of innovative sustainable land management activities lie within the purview of public works.
Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of "e;dwelling poetically on earth.
Clima, hidrologia y meteorologia combina de manera novedosa, tanto para zonas rurales como urbanas, las siguientes tematicas de estudio: la atmosfera, sus manifestaciones meteorologicas y climaticas, la incidencia de los fenomenos atmosfericos en el ciclo del agua y en la hidrologia aplicada a las obras hidraulicas.
Este libro es resultado de la investigación titulada Sistema Ambiental Universitario (2012-2013), que deriva, en parte de los productos generados del convenio interadministrativo firmado entre la Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente y la Universidad Piloto de Colombia (2007-2008),con el objeto de construir los lineamientos básicos para la inclusión de la dimensión ambiental en la Educación Superior, a partir del diagnóstico y análisis participativo de las experiencias de siete universidades de Bogotá, articulando las tres funciones sustantivas de la Universidad: la Academia, la Investigación y la Proyección Social.
Este libro ha sido desarrollado como una guia sencilla para la elaboracion de practicas de suelo, tanto en campo como en laboratorio, usando metodos simples con los que se puede prescindir de espacios especializados para estos analisis.
Este libro es un compendio de reflexiones abiertas, a veces controvertidas y, en otros, un tanto cargados de ironía y desparpajo, que invitan al lector a la indagación, el análisis y la adopción de posturas críticas y constructivas que permitan nuevas formas de entender lo ambiental.
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.
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
En este documento se hace una revisión de los conceptos de ambiente, la problemática asociada en sus instancias social, económica, política y cultural, enfatizando en la propuesta de un paradigma macrobioético (desarrollo sostenible, globalización, ecosofía), para finalizar analizando los derroteros de la Educación Ambiental formulada tras la Declaración de Tbilisi, y llegar así a una prospección sobre la Educación Ambiental y la Bioética en Colombia: de una ética del ambiente, que no tendría sentido si no está orientada a los individuos, las sociedades y los componentes de la Naturaleza, considerada holísticamente.
The second edition of this extensive work is the definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important area of food and agricultural ethics.
Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy.
This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincare Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincare's philosophy of science-both its historical impact on the foundations of science and mathematics, and its relevance to contemporary philosophical inquiry.
Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in Krakow in 1999.
Linnaeus' mature theodicy, his attempt to reconcile the suffering and evil of the world with the omnipotence and goodness of God, is presented in a condensed form in the final editions of his Systema Naturae (1758/68).
