The Logic Of Environmentalism

Author : Vassos Argyrou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845451059
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Environmentalism written by Vassos Argyrou and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that challenges the widespread assumption that environmentalism reflects a radical departure from modernity. Our perception of nature may have changed, the author maintains, but environmentalism remains a thoroughly modernist project. It reproduces the cultural logic of modernity, a logic that finds meaning in unity and therefore strives to efface difference, and to reconfirm the position of the West as the source of all legitimate signification.

Author : R. Edward Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business written by R. Edward Freeman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help executives meet the challenge of being profitable, doing the right thing, and helping save the Earth, the authors outline a program for change that firms can use to maximize their profits and minimize their negative impact on the environment. They show how executives can add environmental awareness to the strategic mix and still compete successfully. 10 line drawings.

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026266190X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Sufficiency written by Thomas Princen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption? Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges—at once global, technological, and commercial—require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles. In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point. With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational—personally, organizationally and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy—indeed a society—cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979726
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571819840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Environmentalism written by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814768040
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slums of Aspen written by Lisa Sun-Hee Park and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new understanding of low-wage immigrants (mostly from Latin America) who have become the foundation for service and leisure work in a famous resort, and of the recent history of the ski industry, Park and Pellow expose the ways in which Colorado boosters have reshaped the landscape and ecosystems in the pursuit of profit.

Author : Timothy Morton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541368
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ecology written by Timothy Morton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.

Author : Olivia Angé
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789208947
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Nostalgias written by Olivia Angé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.

Author : Xueming Chen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356002
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital written by Xueming Chen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today’s environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for profit and the capitalist mode of production.

Author : Richard B. Shepard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387280987
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic written by Richard B. Shepard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuzzy logic enables people preparing environmental impact statements to quantify complex environmental, economic and social conditions. This reduces the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable results.