Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspire readers with a range of exciting recipes.
This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world's major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.
This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.
Since UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Compact in 1999, over 12,000 organisations around the world have voluntarily adopted and promoted its values and Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and corruption.
Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.
A pesar de que la ciencia y la tecnología se han vuelto parte indispensable en nuestra vida cotidiana, la mayoría de las personas las ven como algo abstracto, impoluto y lejano que hacen personas encerradas en sus laboratorios, vestidas con una bata blanca, salpicada de manchas de colores de alguna substancia extraña y rodeadas de aparatos de vidrio que expelen vapores, también de colores extraños.
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.
Organic Wesley:A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming, and Faith examines the intersectionof the teachings of John Wesley with the ethics of the contemporary foodmovement.
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.
Like in many parts of the world, water resources in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have been pivotal for human survival, economic growth, social development, and practicing certain religion and cultural ethos.
La Argentina transgénica no es ninguna novedad: el cultivo de soja genéticamente modificada para resistir los herbicidas se expande cada vez más, al tiempo que las empresas de agronegocios se concentran en unos pocos jugadores transnacionales.
In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what lies ahead for Singapore's environmental future.
Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies?
In order to preserve this world for future generations, we must strive for sustainable development a a development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising options and resources for future generations to meet their own needs.
Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region.
The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960s; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.
This book describes the effect that hydrocarbon energy (oil, gas and coal) has had on human evolution, how we got to the stage we are at today, what we are doing about it and where it will lead us in the not-too-distant future.
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.
This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing.
This book translates the latest theoretical perspectives on the emerging field of Planetary Health Studies into the practical reality of global political decision makers.
Lakes, wetlands and coastal regions provide essential services critical to the survival of human, wildlife and, by and large, the ecosystems, which are constantly threatened by anthropogenic activities, environmental degradation and climate change.
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.
El presente libro es el resultado de investigación de distintos proyectos en América Latina que se enlazan desde el Programa-Red Estudios del Rururbano en América Latina (ELER).
La humanidad ha llegado a ser la más poderosa fuerza trasformadora del planeta, con lo cual ha creado un nuevo periodo: el Antropoceno o la "era humana".
Si bien los campos de estudio que hasta ahora han abordado los conflictos por recursos naturales han hecho aportes incontestables, estos presentan las limitaciones propias de su especialización, como el uso de un solo enfoque y, en muchos casos, de un único nivel de análisis.
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
El Uso Múltiple del Agua se propone en el marco del concepto de Gestión Integrada de Recursos Hídricos como una estrategia que contribuirá a la reducción de la pobreza y la inequidad.
Al entrar a los predios de la Reserva Biológica Encenillo (rbe), ubicada en la vereda Trinidad del municipio de Guasca (Cundinamarca), pocos se imaginan que allí operó una mina de piedra caliza por más de sesenta años.
La pobreza del agua: geopolítica, gobernanza y abastecimiento recoge las ponencias de los especialistas que participaron en el VII Foro Nacional del Agua.
Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world and water is the primary medium through which the impacts of climate change are felt.
