Suchergebnisse

Helping us survive -- All over the world -- Oxygen around the world -- Plants and people -- Animals helping out -- Calling the rainforests home -- Devastating deforestation -- Chain reaction -- Dangerous digging -- Old land, new crops -- Oil problems -- Climate change -- Finding a balance -- How we can help.

"The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, educates, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused at the local level, this book discusses climate basics like Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts they'll need to know in order to host climate conversations on the local level. The case studies from around the United States show how communities encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and working to reshape the built environment"--

Historical ecologies, heterarchies and transtemporal landscapes : introductory perspectives / Celeste Ray and Manuel Fernández-Götz -- Dialectic in historical ecology / William H. Marquardt -- Historical ecology and longitudinal research strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland / Thomas H. McGovern, George Hambrecht, Megan Hicks -- Gender, feminism, and heterarchy / Janet Levy -- "Can you hear me now?" : heterarchy as an instrument and outcome of collective action in Iron Age and medieval Europe / T.L. Thurston -- Reconstructing African landscape historical ecologies : an integrative approach for managing biocultural heritage / Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane, and Paul Sinclair -- Resilience of agrarian land use practices in Burgundy, France : evolving approaches to historical ecology / Seth Murray, Elizabeth Anne Jones and Scott Madry -- Resilience, heterarchy, and the Native American cultural landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta / Christopher B. Rodning and Jayur M. Mehta -- Mapping British and Irish hillforts / Gary Lock and Ian Ralston -- Humanizing the western Cantabrian mountains in northwestern Iberia : a diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during late prehistory / David González Álvarez -- The end of Iron Age societies in northwestern iberia : equality, heterarchy and hierarchy in contexts of interaction / Inés Sastre and Brais Currás -- Iron Age societies at work : towns, kinship and territory in historical analogies / Manuel Fernández-Götz and Raquel Liceras-Garrido -- Empires of stone, politics of shadow : the historical ecology and political economy of mortuary monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD) / Erik G. Johannesson -- A landscape of ancestors : looking back and thinking forward / Matthew Murray and Bettina Arnold -- Civic-ceremonial transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- Sacred wells across the longue durée / Celeste Ray -- Afterword : integrating time and space in dynamic systems / Carole L. Crumley.

"What about the twenty-first century? Will we finally accept our responsibilities as guardians of planet Earth, the biological living trust, for the beneficiaries, the children of today, tomorrow, and beyond? Or, will it too be a century of lethal, economic struggle among the polarized positions of the supremely dysfunctional among us? Are they—once again—to be allowed to determine the legacy we, as a society, as a nation, bequeath those who follow us? The choice is ours, the adults of the world. How shall we choose?" So writes Chris Maser in this compelling study of three interactive spheres of the ecosystem: atmosphere (air), litho-hydrosphere (rock that comprises the restless continents and the water that surrounds them), and biosphere (all life sandwiched in between). Rich in detail and insightful analogies, Earth in Our Care addresses key issues including land-use policies, ecological restoration, forest management, local living, and sustainability thinking. Exploring our interconnectedness with the Earth, Maser examines today's problems and, more importantly, provides solutions for the future

Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.

This book analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies create the crisis and are challenged by it; the development of inequalities within and between countries are at the heart of generating the emergency and in obstructing its resolution.

Origins -- Earth system -- Geologic time -- The great acceleration -- Anthropos -- Oikos -- Politikos -- Prometheus