Environmentalist thought and ideology

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors.

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.

In 1913, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) left his internationally renowned career as a theologian, philosopher, and organ player to open a hospital in the jungles of Africa.

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history.

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Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy.

Globalisation and consumerism affect every area of our lives.

An accessible, engagingly written book on Arctic environmental change and cooperation by an author intimately involved in Arctic science and policy.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally.

Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design.

The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations.

The urban condition is today being radically transformed.

This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers.

Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality.

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on women's lived experiences amid the pandemic, emphasising migrant labourers, ethnic minorities, the poor and disenfranchised, the incarcerated, and victims of gender-based violence, to explore the impact of the pandemic on women.

Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens.

This book explores the emergence of ecological consciousness in the work of contemporary experimental filmmakers.

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers.

In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations.

In this monograph Prof.

"e;There are no unsacred places,"e; the poet Wendell Berry has written.

First published in 1982.

Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides the first sustained examination of the foundational set of early modern beliefs linking meteorology and physiology.

This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy.

In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics.

Textbook on the science and methods behind a global transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for science, engineering, and social science students.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This textbook discusses important environmental topics and issues and problems relating to them.

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

'Being strength-aware has brought many moments of joy to our family life.

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals.

A visionary ecopsychologist examines the rift between human beings and nature and shows what can be done to bring harmony to both the ecosystem and our own minds.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.

Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century.

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.

Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition offers a current overview of the environmental inequities faced by poor and minority communities and the development of the grassroots movement working to address them.

This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice.

Humankind has long considered the relationship it holds with nature to be both a blessing and a challenge.