The Appropriation Of Ecological Space

Author : Kenneth Hermele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135101221
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appropriation of Ecological Space written by Kenneth Hermele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future. Perhaps Malthus was too late and too early in his prediction? He was too late, because he did not foresee the shift from land-based resources to fossil fuels, outing an end to the limits of agricultural growth, at least temporarily; and he was too early to witness that fossil fuels would come up against their own limits in terms of supply as well as in terms of global warming. This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny.

Author : Kenneth Hermele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135101159
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appropriation of Ecological Space written by Kenneth Hermele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future. Perhaps Malthus was too late and too early in his prediction? He was too late, because he did not foresee the shift from land-based resources to fossil fuels, outing an end to the limits of agricultural growth, at least temporarily; and he was too early to witness that fossil fuels would come up against their own limits in terms of supply as well as in terms of global warming. This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877451679
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appropriation of Nature written by Tim Ingold and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719018626
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appropriation of Nature written by Tim Ingold and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Barry Dalal-Clayton
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 184369042X
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Sustainable Development Strategies written by D. Barry Dalal-Clayton and published by IIED. This book was released on 1994 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alessandro Melis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030321207
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporary Appropriation in Cities written by Alessandro Melis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city. The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, and touches on its relationship to issues such as: sustainability and building re-use; culture; inclusivity, including socio-spatial inclusion; streetscape design; homelessness; and regulations controlling the use of public spaces. The book focuses on temporary appropriation as a necessity of adapting human needs in a city, highlighting the flexibility that is needed within urban planning and the further research that should be undertaken in this area. The book utilises case studies of Auckland, Algiers and Mexico City, and other cities with diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, to explore how planning, design and development can occur whilst maintaining community diversity and resilience. Since urban populations are certain to grow further, this is a key topic for understanding urban dynamics, and this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.

Author : James Fairhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317850521
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature written by James Fairhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental green agendas are the core drivers and goals of grabs. Green grabs may be drivn by biodiversity conservation, biocarbon sequestration, biofuels, ecosystem services or ecotourism, for example. In some cases theyse agendas involve the wholesale alienation of land, and in others the restructuring of rules and authority in the access, use and management of resources that may have profoundly alienating effects. Green grabbing builds on well-known histories of colonial and neo-colonial resource alienation in the name of the environment. Yet it involves novel forms of valuation, commodification and markets for pieces and aspects of nature, and an extraordinary new range of actors and alliances. This book draws together seventeen original cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings to ask: To what extent and in what ways do ‘green grabs’ constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? What political and discursive dynamics underpin ‘green grabs’? How and when do appropriations on the ground emerge out of circulations of green capital? What are the implications for ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods? Who is gaining and who is losing? How are agrarian social relations, rights and authority being restructured, and in whose interests? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Klaus Bosselmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892947
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Safe Operating Space Treaty written by Klaus Bosselmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that international law is not yet equipped to handle the “ecological goods and services” that exist simultaneously within and outside of all states. The global commons have always been understood as geographical spaces that exist only outside the political borders of states. A vital good such as a stable climate exists both within and outside all states, and shows traditional legal approaches to be ecological nonsense. With the recent possibility of measuring and monitoring the state and functioning of the Earth System through the Planetary Boundaries framework, it is now possible to define a “Safe Operating Space of Humankind” corresponding to a biogeophysical state of Earth. In this sense, the Common Home of Humanity is not a planet with 510 million square kilometres, but is a specific favourable state of the Earth System. Recent major scientific advances anticipate a legal paradigm shift that could overcome the disconnection between ecological realities and existing legal frameworks. If we recognize this qualitative and non-geographic space as a Common Natural Intangible Heritage of Humankind, all positive and negative “externalities” end up being included within a new maintenance system of the Common Home.

Author : Manu V. Mathai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136229906
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment written by Manu V. Mathai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative that these investments wrestle with such questions and prove themselves capable of sufficiency, greater equality and inclusiveness. This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India and develops and proposes an alternative "synergy for sustainability." It situates nuclear power as a socio-technical infrastructure embodying a particular development discourse and practice of energy and economic development. The book reveals the political economy of this arrangement and examines the latter’s ability to respond to the environmental crisis. Manu V. Mathai argues that the existing overwhelmingly growth-focused, highly technology-centric approach for organizing economic activity is unsustainable and needs to be reformed. Within this imperative for change, nuclear power in India is found to be and is characterized as an "authoritarian technology." Based on this political economy critique the book proposes an alternative, a synergy of ideas from the fields of development economics, energy planning and science, technology and society studies.

Author : Anabela Carvalho
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889712796
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Climate Change and Civic Action written by Anabela Carvalho and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: