Author: Nicholas Polunin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349036803
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Growth without Ecodisasters?
Author: Nicholas Polunin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349036803
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349036803
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 665
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Towards the Biosphere Reserve
Author: Clifford J. Martinka
Publisher: [Washington?] : The Service
ISBN:
Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: [Washington?] : The Service
ISBN:
Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Biosphere, Problems and Solutions
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080874843
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
The Biosphere, Problems and Solutions
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080874843
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
The Biosphere, Problems and Solutions
Film and Everyday Eco-disasters
Author: Robin L Murray
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803255144
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy. Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent films such as Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these films as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable development as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803255144
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy. Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent films such as Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these films as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable development as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.
Storying the Ecocatastrophe
Author: Helena Duffy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040025862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume’s twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040025862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume’s twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19.
Inventory of Federal Energy-related Environment and Safety Research for ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Inventory of Federal Energy-related Environment and Safety Research for FY 1977
Author: United States Department of Energy. Environmental Impacts Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
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Mazingira
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India
Author: Scott Slovic
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666936421
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today’s burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore’s writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666936421
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today’s burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore’s writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.
Biological Extinction
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extinct animals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extinct animals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description