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This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
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The modern world's continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
The modern world’s continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
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“What is the Earthly Paradise?”
Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region's environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region’s environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
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The Hydropolitics of Africa
A Contemporary Challenge
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
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Art, Ethics and Environment
A Free Inquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Since the 1960s, new affinities between art and nature have blurred ancient distinctions. This collection of essays explores these changing moods in art and philosophy, discussing nature as an independent source of moral and aesthetic value.
Since the 1960s, new affinities between art and nature have blurred ancient distinctions. This collection of essays explores these changing moods in art and philosophy, discussing nature as an independent source of moral and aesthetic value.
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