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Book Bioregional Planning and Design  Volume I

Download or read book Bioregional Planning and Design Volume I written by David Fanfani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a review of the bioregionalist theory in the field of spatial planning and design as a suitable approach to cope with the growing concerns about the negative effects of metropolization processes and the need for a sustainable transition. The book starts out with a section on rethinking places for community life, and discusses the reframing of regional governance and development as well as social justice in spatial planning. It introduces the concept of the urban bioregion, a pivotal concept that underpins balanced polycentric spatial patterns and supports self-reliant and fair local development. The second part of the book focuses on planning, and particularly on the issues that arise from the ‘circular’ recovery of the relation between city and agro-ecosystems for integrated planning and resilience of settlements and discusses topics such as foodshed planning, biophilic urbanism and the integration of rural development and spatial planning. This volume sets out the reference framework for Volume II which deals with more specific and operational issues related to spatial policies and settlement design.

Book Environmental Affectivity

Download or read book Environmental Affectivity written by Omar Felipe Giraldo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Spinoza's lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, aesthetic and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility – creating an affectivity in direction opposition to the regime imposed by this global ecocidal capitalism. For the authors, the environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. They see it as a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions and in our sensory-motor capacities. Hence, the immense need to dismantle this system of power embedded in the intimacy of our body and to cultivate a perceptual transformation guided by an empathic knowledge that leads to a different understanding of our belonging in that which exceeds us. This book is a vital manifesto on the political role of affects, an invitation to awaken the sensitive perception anesthetized by the ecologies of cruelty, and an urgent call to understand differently our place in the cosmos in the midst of this war that our civilization has declared on life.

Book Spain After the Indignados 15M Movement

Download or read book Spain After the Indignados 15M Movement written by Óscar Pereira-Zazo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement explores how the aftershocks of the 2007 Great Recession restructured Spain’s political sphere and political imaginary. It brings together a representative sample of Spain’s leading progressive voices, including two of the five founding members of the Podemos party. The essays herein explore the areas of economics, politics, ecology, social change, media, and cultural politics in order to present a broad, critical account of contemporary Spain, with a special emphasis on emerging forms of sociopolitical contestation, self-organizing, democratic participation, and radical politics. The edited volume argues that Spanish cultural studies—which originally gravitated toward celebratory accounts of capitalist modernization, the cultural Movida and the advent of a postmodern Spain—must continue to build a new cultural politics that not only challenges the accepted narrative of the Spanish Transition to democracy, but that is committed to confronting the civilizatory challenges currently faced.

Book EarthEd  State of the World

Download or read book EarthEd State of the World written by The Worldwatch Institute and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's students will face the unprecedented challenges of a rapidly warming world, including emerging diseases, food shortages, drought, and waterlogged cities. How do we prepare 9.5 billion people for life in the Anthropocene, to thrive in this uncharted and more chaotic future? Answers are being developed in universities, preschools, professional schools, and even prisons around the world. In the latest volume of State of the World, a diverse group of education experts share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in a new era. EarthEd will inspire anyone who wants to prepare students not only for the storms ahead but to become the next generation of sustainability leaders.

Book Political Ecology of Agriculture

Download or read book Political Ecology of Agriculture written by Omar Felipe Giraldo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture. The author endeavors herein to clarify some of the strategies that industrial agribusiness, in collusion with the state and multilateral structures, sets in motion in order to functionalize the lives of millions of farmers, so that their bodies, enunciations, and sensibilities can be repurposed in accordance with the dynamics of capital accumulation. The argument is based on the idea that agro-extractivism cannot be thought of exclusively as an economic-political and technological system, but as a complex interweaving of cultural meanings, aesthetics, and affections, which, amalgamated under the abstract name of "development", act as a support for the whole system's scaffolding. The book also explores the other side of the coin, describing how, and under what conditions, social movements are responding to the calamities generated by this model. The central thesis is that many ongoing agroecological processes are providing one of the most interesting guidelines at present for visualizing transitions towards post-development, post-extractivism, and the construction of multiple worlds beyond the sphere of capital. Political ecology of agriculture joins the calls that question the cultural project of modernity and the predatory sense imposed by the globalized food empire, and invites recognition of the importance of agroecology in the context of the end of the fossil-fuel era and the likely collapse of our industry-based civilization.

Book WORKSHOPS EN ESPA   A 2008  2010

Download or read book WORKSHOPS EN ESPA A 2008 2010 written by David K. Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies

Download or read book A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies written by Luis I. Prádanos and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.

Book Repensar la sostenibilidad

    Book Details:
  • Author : ENRÍQUEZ SÁNCHEZ José María
  • Publisher : Editorial UNED
  • Release : 2021-01-11
  • ISBN : 8436276566
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Repensar la sostenibilidad written by ENRÍQUEZ SÁNCHEZ José María and published by Editorial UNED. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La sostenibilidad, cualidad de lo sostenible, hace referencia a un proceso que puede alargarse en el tiempo. Cuando este proceso lo referimos a cuestiones socio-ecológicas, comprobamos cómo, desde hace ya largo tiempo, no son pocas las voces acreditadas que han puesto sobre aviso del progresivo deterioro ecológico y sus consecuencias perjudiciales para la vida humana. Nuestra obra parte de estas negatividades para repensar la idea de sostenibilidad en sus justos términos, y así dar cabida a una variedad de aportaciones que ayuden a restituimos dentro de los límites ecosistémicos.

Book Urban Dynamics in the Post pandemic Period

Download or read book Urban Dynamics in the Post pandemic Period written by Enrique Navarro-Jurado and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres. Economic, social and environmental uncertainty has been commonplace since March 2019, when mobility slowed down across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends that have been investigated in urban space for years. The incorporation of technologies, the expansion of tourism and the introduction of policies that in part want to advance sustainability are generating processes of reorganisation of territories that are driving changes. These changes will affect models of city, urbanism and society. This publication is directed to a wide spectrum of people interested in urban processes, tourism and social change in the context of the Post-Pandemic Covid-19. In particular, the book is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultants, public administrations and the public interested in the recent challenges that are affecting developed and developing societies.

Book Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society

Download or read book Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society written by Francesco Paolo Appio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belonging to the realm of intelligent technologies, it is increasingly accepted that artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from being merely a development standpoint in computer science. Indeed, recent reports and academic publications show that we are clearly on the path toward pervasive AI in both business and society. Organizations must adopt AI to maintain a competitive advantage and explore opportunities for unprecedented innovation. This book focuses on understanding the wide range of opportunities as well as the spectrum of challenges AI brings in different business contexts and society at large. The book highlights novel and high-quality research in data science and business analytics and examines the current and future impact of AI in business and society. The authors bridge the gap between business and technical perspectives and demonstrate the potential (and actual) impact on society. Embracing applied, qualitative, and quantitative research as well as field experiments and data analysis, the book covers a broad range of topics including but not limited to human-centered AI, product and process innovation, corporate governance, AI and ethics, organizational performance, and entrepreneurship. This comprehensive book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students across AI, technology and innovation management, and a wide range of business disciplines.

Book GRAN LIBRO DE LA MAGIA RITUAL

Download or read book GRAN LIBRO DE LA MAGIA RITUAL written by Maestro Rejko Jodorowsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excepcional libro para todos aquellos que se inician en el mundo del Esoterismo y para todos aquellos profesionales que quieran o necesiten ampliar sus conocimientos en la materia ya que nos permite ver el lado oculto de los rituales mágicos.Con extrema claridad y sencillez de expresión logra acercarse a todo aquel lector que busque en esta obra un método de consulta en sus prácticas habituales.Llega a todo y a todos aportando la luz tan necesaria hoy en día."Christopher Dawson.Open University of Advanced Sciences Inc. Florida (EEUU)

Book EL C  DIGO DE LA VIDA

    Book Details:
  • Author : SWAMI RAM CHARRAN
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1257899104
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book EL C DIGO DE LA VIDA written by SWAMI RAM CHARRAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revista Chicano Rique  a

Download or read book Revista Chicano Rique a written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LA ESPIRAL  Relatos

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  • Author : Marieta Díaz de Toledo
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1471685764
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book LA ESPIRAL Relatos written by Marieta Díaz de Toledo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ENERG  A UNIVERSAL REIKI 3 EN 1

Download or read book ENERG A UNIVERSAL REIKI 3 EN 1 written by Esperanza Tovar Moratalla and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previos a un gran cambio la humanidad no le queda tiempo para esperar, es una obligación moral dar a conocer esta energía universal, para que hayan más hermanos conscientes de ella, ya que esta energía nos facilitara dar el gran salto. Por ello realizo esta Iniciación Universal, para que puedan tomarla todos los que lo deseen. El libro esta compuesto por los tres grados o niveles de Reiki Usui junto a sus diplomas, más la instrucciones para tomar la Iniciación y Maestría juntas en una única sesión.

Book Revista chicano riquena

Download or read book Revista chicano riquena written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: