In Gärten und auf Feldern vollzieht sich ein Massensterben: Die Bestäuber verenden, Bienen, Käfer und Schmetterlinge, auf die unsere Nahrungspflanzen angewiesen sind.
Spätestens seit Jennifer Sieglar als Reporterin den UN-Klimagipfel besucht hat, ist ihr klar, dass sich etwas an unserem Konsumverhalten verändern muss.
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) ist vor allem bekannt als enfant terrible der Londoner Society, bizarr in Phantasie und Kostüm, penetrant in ihrem Anspruch auf Teilhabe am wissenschaftlichen Diskurs, skandalös in ihrem Streben nach Ruhm.
Vor dem Hintergrund einer Theorie einer Begriffsgeschichte naturwissenschaftlicher Begriffe stellt Wolfgang Neuser in diesem Buch historische Fallbeispiele vom 17.
This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death.
This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology.
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 compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan's unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms.
This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator.
This book explores why the concept of wild pedagogy is an essential aspect of education in these times; a re-negotiated education that acknowledges the necessity of listening to voices in a more than human world, and (re)learning how to dwell in a place.