Download or read book chacun son d veloppement durable De la diversit culturelle aux nanotechnologies written by Marie-Hélène Parizeau and published by Presses de l'Université Laval. This book was released on 2017-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le développement durable se conjugue-t-il avec la diversité culturelle ? Une telle interrogation force à relire l'histoire du modèle occidental de développement des sociétés qui a imposé aux autres peuples de la terre, un évolutionnisme culturel dès le XIXe siècle. Aujourd'hui, le concept de développement durable permet-il de penser d'autres modèles de développement économique, social, environnemental et culturel ? Donne-t-il la liberté de choisir selon les critères de sa propre culture et d'affirmer son droit à la différence ? Telles sont les interrogations qui structurent la première partie de cet ouvrage multidisciplinaire et international (Québec, Brésil, Belgique, Sénégal, France). En prenant l'exemple des nanotechnologies, la deuxième partie de l'ouvrage examine comment penser « l'innovation technologique responsable » à partir du développement durable. Les enjeux de finalités, d'évaluation des risques, des choix sociaux et citoyens, pourraient-ils alors être posés autrement ? Les sociétés des pays du Nord, du Sud, émergents ou pauvres, pourraient-elles choisir et non subir les nanotechnologies, en tenant compte d'autres dimensions que les paramètres économiques, dans le respect de la pluralité et en affirmant la diversité des cultures ? A chacun son développement durable ? constitue un appel pour qu'à travers la biosphère différentes formes de développement et d'épanouissement social et individuel soient possibles.
Download or read book A chacun son d veloppement durable written by Marie-Hélène Parizeau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le développement durable se conjugue-t-il avec la diversité culturelle ? Une telle interrogation force à relire l’histoire du modèle occidental de développement des sociétés qui a imposé aux autres peuples de la terre, un évolutionnisme culturel dès le XIX e siècle. Aujourd’hui, le concept de développement durable permet-il de penser d’autres modèles de développement économique, social, environnemental et culturel ? Donne-t-il la liberté de choisir selon les critères de sa propre culture et d’affirmer son droit à la différence ? Telles sont les interrogations qui structurent la première partie de cet ouvrage multidisciplinaire et international (Québec, Brésil, Belgique, Sénégal, France). En prenant l’exemple des nanotechnologies, la deuxième partie de l’ouvrage examine comment penser " l’innovation technologique responsable " à partir du développement durable. Les enjeux de finalités, d’évaluation des risques, des choix sociaux et citoyens, pourraient-ils alors être posés autrement ? Les sociétés des pays du Nord, du Sud, émergents ou pauvres, pourraient-elles choisir et non subir les nanotechnologies, en tenant compte d’autres dimensions que les paramètres économiques, dans le respect de la pluralité et en affirmant la diversité des cultures ? À chacun son développement durable ? constitue un appel pour qu’à travers la biosphère différentes formes de développement et d’épanouissement social et individuel soient possibles. -- [Quatrième de couverture].
Download or read book l aube Nous Vaincrons written by Evelyne Vuillermoz and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment les personnes et les soci�t�s se d�veloppent harmonieusement et �voluent de fa�on positive, ou au contraire r�gressent et se replient ? Comment les �tres humains s'adaptent-ils � leur environnement lorsque leurs conditions de vie changent ? Quelle grille de lecture adopter pour comprendre les d�s�quilibres actuels du monde global et tenter d'y rem�dier ? Quels sont les dangers qui menacent les g�n�rations futures ?J'essaie d'apporter dans cet ouvrage des �l�ments d'information et d'analyse afin de permettre � chacun de participer � la cr�ation d'un monde meilleur, �thique et durable. La cr�ativit� est un autre nom de l'adaptation. Mais avant tout, elle rend le monde vivable en nous rendant heureux de vivre. Car la "positivit�" consiste � devenir un �tre pleinement �panoui, humain et responsable, porteur d'initiative et de r�flexion. L'ouvrage donne ici des clefs et des outils pour ceux qui d�sirent lib�rer leur potentiel adaptatif et cr�atif, et devenir pleinement acteurs de leur existence. D�s � pr�sent, si nous devons cr�er les outils d'une mondialisation �quilibr�e, nous devons �galement apprendre � nos enfants � d�passer les difficult�s, en leur offrant la possibilit� d'acc�der non seulement � l'�ducation et aux savoirs fondamentaux, mais aussi d'acc�der � leur propre d�veloppement personnel valorisant la cr�ativit�, la culture, la joie de vivre, le respect de soi et d'autrui.Nous verrons ainsi, que les enjeux d'u mod�le de d�veloppement durable et l'�dification de soci�t�s positives d�passent largement les questions li�es � l'�conomie. Ce mod�le doit inclure le d�veloppement culturel, social et humain. Il doit aussi pr�server le bien-�tre et la sant�, la n�tre comme celle des g�n�rations futures. Il doit enfin pr�server les savoir-faire, la diversit� et les �quilibres.Cet ensemble inclut la beaut� nourrie par l'intelligence sensible de l'homme. La recherche de l'harmonie globale nous interpelle sur la n�cessti� d'assurer la diversit� humaine et la diversit� culturelle, comme celle des autres esp�ces, v�g�tales et animales. La diversit� naturelle, la diversit� humaine et la diversit� culturelle sont indispensables pour penser le futur de nos soci�t�s de fa�on positive et instaurer un d�veloppement durable.Enfin, je suis convaincue que chacun d'entre nous trouvera les plus belles r�ponses dans son coeur, dans l'amour et la confiance qu'il accordera autour de lui. La cr�ation, l'amour et la vie sont de l'ordre de l'inconnu, une magie inesp�r�e qui nous renforce, nous �meut et nous lib�re. Il n'y a rien de plus essentiel. L'Histoire ne s'int�resse qu'aux faits, pas aux sentiments. En cela r�side la plus grave erreur, car les passions humaines sous-tendent les comportements et les d�cisions. Il est donc urgent de comprendre que l'homme ne peut �tre rationnel s'il ne comprend pas ses �motions, si la soci�t� d�valorise l'expression des sentiments qui fondent l'�panouissement humain, en donnant � un sens � nos relations et � nos vies.
Download or read book Impossible Subjects written by Mae M. Ngai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Download or read book Innovate Bristol written by Sven Boermeester and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.
Download or read book Edinburgh Gazette written by Stationery Office, The and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Company Law Official Notifications Supplement
Download or read book Engineering written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews engineering's importance to human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science. The report reviews the role of engineering in development, and covers issues including poverty reduction, sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation. It presents the various fields of engineering around the world and is intended to identify issues and challenges facing engineering, promote better understanding of engineering and its role, and highlight ways of making engineering more attractive to young people, especially women.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights written by H. ten Have and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2005, UNESCO Member States adopted by acclamation the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. For the first time in the history of bioethics, some 190 countries committed themselves and the international community to respect and apply fundamental ethical principles related to medicine, the life sciences and associated technologies. This publication provides a new impetus to the dissemination of the Declaration, and is part of the organisation's continuous effort to contribute to the understanding of its principles worldwide. The authors, who were almost all involved in the elaboration of the text of the Declaration, were asked to respond on each article: Why was it included? What does it mean? How can it be applied? Their responses shed light on the historical background of the text and its evolution throughout the drafting process. They also provide a reflection on its relevance to previous declarations and bioethical literature, and its potential interpretation and application in challenging and complex bioethical debates.
Download or read book Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City written by Thomas Frisch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of ‘tourists’ and ‘residents’. Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. Tourism has become a key momentum of urban development and affects cities beyond its economic dimension. Urban everyday life itself can turn into a matter of tourist interest for people searching for experiences off the beaten track. Even living in a city as a resident involves moments, activities and practices which could be labelled as ‘touristic’. These observations demonstrate some of the various layers in which urban tourism and everyday city life are intertwined. This book gathers multiple interdisciplinary approaches, a diversity of topics and methodological variety to examine this complex relationship. It presents a systematic framework for the dynamic research field of new urban tourism along three dimensions: the extraordinary mundane, encounters and contact zones, and urban co-production. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across fields such as Tourism and Mobility Studies, Urban Studies, Leisure Studies, Tourism Geography, and Tourism Sociology.
Download or read book Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research written by Aditya Johri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research is the critical reference source for the growing field of engineering education research, featuring the work of world luminaries writing to define and inform this emerging field. The Handbook draws extensively on contemporary research in the learning sciences, examining how technology affects learners and learning environments, and the role of social context in learning. Since a landmark issue of the Journal of Engineering Education (2005), in which senior scholars argued for a stronger theoretical and empirically driven agenda, engineering education has quickly emerged as a research-driven field increasing in both theoretical and empirical work drawing on many social science disciplines, disciplinary engineering knowledge, and computing. The Handbook is based on the research agenda from a series of interdisciplinary colloquia funded by the US National Science Foundation and published in the Journal of Engineering Education in October 2006.
Download or read book The Disappearing Computer written by Norbert Streitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the computer, as we currently know it, will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, moving computing off the desktop and ultimately integrating it with real world objects and everyday environments. It provides a unique combination of concepts, methods and prototypes of ubiquitous and pervasive computing reflecting the current interest in smart environments and ambient intelligence.
Download or read book Engineering for Sustainable Development written by International Centre for Engineering Education and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced profession that can better respond to the shortage of engineers for implementing the SDGs. It provides a snapshot of the engineering innovations that are shaping our world, especially emerging technologies such as big data and AI, which are crucial for addressing the pressing challenges facing humankind and the planet. It analyses the transformation of engineering education and capacity-building at the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that will enable engineers to tackle the challenges ahead. It highlights the global effort needed to address the specific regional disparities, while summarizing the trends of engineering across the different regions of the world.
Download or read book Travel Connections written by Jennie Germann Molz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘interactive travel’. Today’s travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friends and family members – as well as to connect with strangers and other travellers – while they are on the road. New practices such as location-aware navigating, travel blogging, flashpacking and Couchsurfing now shape the way travellers engage with each other, with their social networks, and with the world around them. Travel Connections prompts a rethinking of the key paradigms in tourism studies in the digital age. Interactive travel calls into question longstanding tourism concepts such as landscape, the tourist gaze, hospitality, authenticity and escape. The book proposes a range of new concepts to describe the way tourists inhabit the world and engage with their social networks in the twenty-first century: smart tourism, the mediated gaze, mobile conviviality, re-enchantment and embrace. Based on intensive fieldwork with interactive travellers, Travel Connections offers a detailed account of this emerging phenomenon and uncovers the new forms of mediated and face-to-face togetherness that become possible in a mobile world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, tourism and hospitality, new media, cosmopolitanism studies, mobility studies and cultural studies.
Download or read book Guarding the Golden Door written by Roger Daniels and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since. Immigration policy in Daniels' skilled hands shows Americans at their best and worst, from the nativist violence that forced Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan to the generous refugee policies adopted after World War Two and throughout the Cold War. And in a conclusion drawn from today's headlines, Daniels makes clear how far ignorance, partisan politics, and unintended consequences have overtaken immigration policy during the current administration's War on Terror. Irreverent, deeply informed, and authoritative, Guarding the Golden Door presents an unforgettable interpretation of modern American history.
Download or read book Politics of Nature written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
Download or read book The World Heritage Convention Twenty Years Later written by Léon Pressouyre and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education written by Mark Mason and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scholarly essays, Complexity Theory and thePhilosophy of Education provides an accessible theoreticalintroduction to the topic of complexity theory while consideringits broader implications for educational change. Explains the contributions of complexity theory to philosophyof education, curriculum, and educational research Brings together new research by an international team ofcontributors Debates issues ranging from the culture of curriculum, to theimplications of work of key philosophers such as Foucault and JohnDewey for educational change Demonstrates how social scientists and social and educationpolicy makers are drawing on complexity theory to answer questionssuch as: why is it that education decision-makers are so resistantto change; how does change in education happen; and what does ittake to make these changes sustainable? Considers changes in use of complexity theory; developedprincipally in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, andeconomics, and now being applied more broadly to the socialsciences and to the study of education
