Society and Environment
Author | : Jaqueline Tyrwhitt |
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Author | : Jaqueline Tyrwhitt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317434668 |
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt’s key texts to illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes’ bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced post-war academic discourse and professional practice in urban planning and design internationally. The key texts reprinted in this book are contributions from the Town and Country Planning Textbook (1950) which was published as an outcome for the Correspondence Course in Town Planning for members of the Allied Forces, which Tyrwhitt ran. It was designed to meet the requirements created by passage of the 1947 Town and Country Act and helped to shape a generation of planning practitioners in the UK and commonwealth countries.
Author | : Paul Warde |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421440024 |
The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces today.
Author | : Bathsheba Demuth |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393635171 |
A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought, and will continue to bring, to a finite planet.
Author | : Bernhard Gissibl |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857455273 |
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.
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Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
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Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Robert B. Marks |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1442212764 |
This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "he.
Author | : Etienne S. Benson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022670629X |
Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it’s easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the concept, Etienne S. Benson uncovers the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken over the last two centuries and opens our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today. Through a series of richly contextualized case studies, Benson shows us how and why particular groups of people—from naturalists in Napoleonic France in the 1790s to global climate change activists today—adopted the concept of environment and adapted it to their specific needs and challenges. Bold and deeply researched, Surroundings challenges much of what we think we know about what an environment is, why we should care about it, and how we can protect it.
Author | : Ranjan Chakrabarti |
Publisher | : Manohar Publishers |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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Concern For The Environment Is Not New; It Has Always Existed. One Of The Flash Points In The Inner Conflicts Within Human Societies Of The Past Was Fuelled By The Continuous Effort To Resolve The Legitimate Use Of The Natural World. Nature Is One Of Those Spaces Where We Observe The Most Intense Forms Of Class Struggle And Power Politics - The More Privileged Control The Natural Resources.