Author: Pedro Costa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788413640211
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 364
Book Description
Este Manual crítico de cultura ambiental está concebido como un texto que estimule el entendimiento de los problemas ambientales en general, que perciba la gravedad de las amenazas más acuciantes que de ellos vienen derivándose y que invite a adoptar una postura socialmente activa, fundada y crítica. El autor, que pertenece a la primera generación de «ecologistas políticos», ha querido reflejar en este texto su experiencia y sus conclusiones en relación con el conocimiento esencial que un ciudadano preocupado y culto ha de exhibir para afrontar la expansiva e inquietante crisis ecológica.Desgrana, así, en sus diez capítulos, los grandes ámbitos sobre los que es necesario detenerse y reflexionar: desde los fundamentos y el desarrollo de la vida en el planeta y los retos básicos a los que se enfrenta (demografía galopante, contaminación ubicua, escasez de los recursos naturales, hostilidad histórica hacia la naturaleza) hasta la consideración, urgente y alarmada, de las grandes amenazas (la climática y la vírica, en particular) que se abaten sobre el planeta y nuestras sociedades. Atravesando por cuerpos de conocimiento que necesariamente han de completar esa visión, como la economía ecológica (enmienda a la totalidad de la economía estándar), el papel, sobredimensionado y tantas veces nefasto, de la ciencia y la tecnología, la idea de justicia ecológica como avance sobre el derecho ambiental, y la confrontación con los aspectos más desasosegantes de la postmodernidad, como los que se derivan de la (mal) llamada sociedad de la información, o digital, que el autor no duda en resumir como «negocio, opresión y mito».Aunque, inevitablemente, este Manual se escora hacia los aspectos que con mayor intensidad ha vivido --o sobre los que más ha reflexionado-- su autor, deberá quedar a salvo su intención final: «Ser útiles a la sociedad y al planeta, y desempeñar el papel que siempre existe para cada uno de nosotros (y nos está reservado)».
Manual crítico de cultura ambiental
Author: Pedro Costa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788413640211
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 364
Book Description
Este Manual crítico de cultura ambiental está concebido como un texto que estimule el entendimiento de los problemas ambientales en general, que perciba la gravedad de las amenazas más acuciantes que de ellos vienen derivándose y que invite a adoptar una postura socialmente activa, fundada y crítica. El autor, que pertenece a la primera generación de «ecologistas políticos», ha querido reflejar en este texto su experiencia y sus conclusiones en relación con el conocimiento esencial que un ciudadano preocupado y culto ha de exhibir para afrontar la expansiva e inquietante crisis ecológica.Desgrana, así, en sus diez capítulos, los grandes ámbitos sobre los que es necesario detenerse y reflexionar: desde los fundamentos y el desarrollo de la vida en el planeta y los retos básicos a los que se enfrenta (demografía galopante, contaminación ubicua, escasez de los recursos naturales, hostilidad histórica hacia la naturaleza) hasta la consideración, urgente y alarmada, de las grandes amenazas (la climática y la vírica, en particular) que se abaten sobre el planeta y nuestras sociedades. Atravesando por cuerpos de conocimiento que necesariamente han de completar esa visión, como la economía ecológica (enmienda a la totalidad de la economía estándar), el papel, sobredimensionado y tantas veces nefasto, de la ciencia y la tecnología, la idea de justicia ecológica como avance sobre el derecho ambiental, y la confrontación con los aspectos más desasosegantes de la postmodernidad, como los que se derivan de la (mal) llamada sociedad de la información, o digital, que el autor no duda en resumir como «negocio, opresión y mito».Aunque, inevitablemente, este Manual se escora hacia los aspectos que con mayor intensidad ha vivido --o sobre los que más ha reflexionado-- su autor, deberá quedar a salvo su intención final: «Ser útiles a la sociedad y al planeta, y desempeñar el papel que siempre existe para cada uno de nosotros (y nos está reservado)».
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788413640211
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 364
Book Description
Este Manual crítico de cultura ambiental está concebido como un texto que estimule el entendimiento de los problemas ambientales en general, que perciba la gravedad de las amenazas más acuciantes que de ellos vienen derivándose y que invite a adoptar una postura socialmente activa, fundada y crítica. El autor, que pertenece a la primera generación de «ecologistas políticos», ha querido reflejar en este texto su experiencia y sus conclusiones en relación con el conocimiento esencial que un ciudadano preocupado y culto ha de exhibir para afrontar la expansiva e inquietante crisis ecológica.Desgrana, así, en sus diez capítulos, los grandes ámbitos sobre los que es necesario detenerse y reflexionar: desde los fundamentos y el desarrollo de la vida en el planeta y los retos básicos a los que se enfrenta (demografía galopante, contaminación ubicua, escasez de los recursos naturales, hostilidad histórica hacia la naturaleza) hasta la consideración, urgente y alarmada, de las grandes amenazas (la climática y la vírica, en particular) que se abaten sobre el planeta y nuestras sociedades. Atravesando por cuerpos de conocimiento que necesariamente han de completar esa visión, como la economía ecológica (enmienda a la totalidad de la economía estándar), el papel, sobredimensionado y tantas veces nefasto, de la ciencia y la tecnología, la idea de justicia ecológica como avance sobre el derecho ambiental, y la confrontación con los aspectos más desasosegantes de la postmodernidad, como los que se derivan de la (mal) llamada sociedad de la información, o digital, que el autor no duda en resumir como «negocio, opresión y mito».Aunque, inevitablemente, este Manual se escora hacia los aspectos que con mayor intensidad ha vivido --o sobre los que más ha reflexionado-- su autor, deberá quedar a salvo su intención final: «Ser útiles a la sociedad y al planeta, y desempeñar el papel que siempre existe para cada uno de nosotros (y nos está reservado)».
Etica Comercial, Manual Sobre La Administracion De Una Empresa Comercial Responsable
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Border Environmental Education Resource Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
Author: Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704374X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
In recent years, much mainstream development discourse has sought to co-opt and neutralize key concepts relating to empowerment, participation, gender, sustainability and inclusivity in order to serve a market-driven, neoliberal agenda. Critical development studies now play a crucial role in combatting this by analyzing the systemic changes needed to transform the current world to one where economic and social justice and environmental integrity prevail. The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies takes as its starting point the multiple crises – economic, political, social and environmental – of the dominant current global capitalist system. The chapters collectively document and analyze these crises and the need to find alternatives to the system(s) that generate them. To do so, analyses of class, gender and empire are placed at the centre of discussion, in contrast to markets, liberalization and convergence, which characterize mainstream development discourse. Each contributor supplements their overview with a guide to the critical development studies literature on the topic, thereby providing scholars and students not only with a precis of the key issues, but also a signpost to further readings. This is an important resource for academics, researchers, policymakers and professionals in the areas of development studies, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international relations and international political economy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704374X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
In recent years, much mainstream development discourse has sought to co-opt and neutralize key concepts relating to empowerment, participation, gender, sustainability and inclusivity in order to serve a market-driven, neoliberal agenda. Critical development studies now play a crucial role in combatting this by analyzing the systemic changes needed to transform the current world to one where economic and social justice and environmental integrity prevail. The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies takes as its starting point the multiple crises – economic, political, social and environmental – of the dominant current global capitalist system. The chapters collectively document and analyze these crises and the need to find alternatives to the system(s) that generate them. To do so, analyses of class, gender and empire are placed at the centre of discussion, in contrast to markets, liberalization and convergence, which characterize mainstream development discourse. Each contributor supplements their overview with a guide to the critical development studies literature on the topic, thereby providing scholars and students not only with a precis of the key issues, but also a signpost to further readings. This is an important resource for academics, researchers, policymakers and professionals in the areas of development studies, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international relations and international political economy.
The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Genre in a Changing World
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1643170015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1643170015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
Gregorianum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Toward a Coherent Curriculum
Author: James A. Beane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curriculum evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curriculum evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 2001
Author: GK Hall
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783896526
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783896526
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Tourism and Visual Culture Theories and concepts
Author: Peter M. Burns
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845936094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845936094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.