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).
This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.
According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe.
This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida.
This volume is chiefly composed of revised versions of essays presented and discussed at the research symposium of the same title held in Delray Beach, Florida, on May 7-9, 1993.
This collection presents perspectives into the pristine field of phenomenology/philosophy of life conceived by Tymieniecka, initiated in the Analecta Husserliana and unfolding with each volume.
In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life?
According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which have definite values.
Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University).
