Environmental Futures

• Author : Jessica Barnes
• Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
• Release : 09 May 2016

Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material

• Author : J. Alcamo
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 10 October 2008

As scientists and policymakers try to come to grips with problems such as climate change and risks to biodiversity, they turn more and more frequently to the method of scenario analysis to better understand the future of these problems. Over the last few years scenario analysis has become one of the key tools for bridging environmental science and policy. This is the first book to sum up the current practice of environmental scenario analysis and to propose directions for improving

• Author : Ben Fairweather,Sue Elworthy,Matt Stroh,Piers H.G. Stephens
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 12 April 1999

The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example, new technologies, paths in social and political theory, methodologies). It is divided into three sections, moving from social constructions of 'the environment' in the first section to questions of green political theory and practice in the second, and concluding with issues of environmental risk and future technologies. The work is interdisciplinary, with contributors ranging from philosophers to human geographers.

• Author : Colin Porteous
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release : 17 April 2019

This book addresses the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture, and in a holistic manner. It moves gradually from psychophysiology and thinking-doing-feeling modalities, through environmental criteria to environmental modulation, concluding with a debate around mitigation and adaptation. Much use is made of re-interpreting past quotations seen as relevant for environmental architecture. No definitive conclusions are reached, but rather broad discursive messages are offered. The text will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.

• Author : Torleif Haugland,Director Department of Energy and Environmental Studies Torleif Haugland,Helge Ole Bergesen,Kjell Roland
• Publisher : Clarendon Press
• Release : 20 May 1998

The authors examine the history and prospects of the European energy sector, the impact of environmental policies on it and the regulatory structures that govern it. The period they consider ranges from the 1970s to the 2020s.

• Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,Linda H. Connor
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 August 2015

Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and acting towards the future involves efforts of imagination that are linked to our sense of being in the world and the ecological pressures we experience. The three key ideas of this book –

• Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran,Joseph P. Weakland,Arjen E.J. Wals
• Publisher : Wageningen Academic Publishers
• Release : 16 February 2017

This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to

• Author : Michael Rawson
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 16 November 2021

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : DIANE Publishing
• Release : 20 May 2022

• Author : Jeremy M. Campbell
• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• Release : 21 December 2015

Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists -

• Author : Michelle Lim
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 31 August 2019

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth’s history: the Anthropocene. The book discusses multiple contemporary and future challenges facing the planet and humanity. It examines the relationship between environmental law and the Anthropocene at governance scales from the global to the local. The breadth of issues and jurisdictions covered by the book, its forward-looking nature, and the unique generational perspective of the contributing authors means that this publication

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 20 May 1995

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : DIANE Publishing
• Release : 20 May 2022

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 20 May 1981

• Author : Lawrence Susskind,Ravi K. Jain,Andrew O. Martyniuk
• Publisher : Island Press
• Release : 05 March 2013

Environmental policy studies commissioned by government agencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action. But the results of even the most rigorous studies are frequently misappropriated or misunderstood and are as likely to confuse an issue as they are to clarify it. Better Environmental Policy Studies explores this problem, as it considers the shortcomings of current approaches to policy studies and presents a pragmatic