Download or read book Pour une 6e R publique cologique written by Dominique Bourg and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alors que l’ampleur de la crise écologique impose une nouvelle ambition pour l’humanité, nos démocraties n’avancent qu’à petits pas. Or les dégradations en cours de la biosphère menacent nos conditions de vie et exigent un changement de cap rapide. Face à la nécessité d’anticiper et de réagir vigoureusement, certains s’interrogent sur l’efficacité de la démocratie, suggérant qu’un gouvernement autoritaire permettrait de relever plus aisément le défi. Notre ambition est au contraire de parier sur la démocratie, de l’approfondir et de la renouveler. Pour ce faire, il s’agit d’avancer des propositions concrètes permettant d’engager tous ensemble l’indispensable transition écologique. Ce livre refuse, ainsi, de choisir entre démocratie et environnement et ne propose rien de moins qu’une architecture institutionnelle nouvelle : une république écologique. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’une réflexion collective et transdisciplinaire conduite au sein de la Fondation pour la nature et l’homme. Sous la direction de Dominique BourgAvec : J. Bétaille, L. Blondiaux, M.-A. Cohendet, J.-M. Fourniau, B. François, P. Marzolf, Y. Sintomer.
Download or read book Propos written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nourishment written by Corine Pelluchon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book, Corine Pelluchon argues that the dichotomy between nature and culture privileges the latter. She laments that the political system protects the sovereignty of the human and leaves them immune to impending environmental disaster. Using the phenomenological writings of French philosophers like Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricœur, Pelluchon contends that human beings have to recognise humanity's dependence upon the natural world for survival and adopt a new philosophy of existence that advocates for animal welfare and ecological preservation. In an extension of Heidegger's ontology of concern, Pelluchon declares that this dependence is not negative or a sign of weakness. She argues instead, that we are nourished by the natural world and that the very idea of nourishment contains an element of pleasure. This sustenance comforts humans and gives their lives taste. Pelluchon's new philosophy claims then, that eating has an affective, social and cultural dimension, but that most importantly it is a political act. It solidifies the eternal link between human beings and animals, and warns that the human consumption of animals and other natural resources impacts upon humanity's future.
Download or read book Innovation for Sustainable Development written by Jean-Yves Grosclaude and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation has become the new buzzword across the globe. International organisations, governments, corporates, academia and society see it as the answer to the major economic, social and environmental transformations challenging the models of the 20th century. Innovations are occurring worldwide and alternative solutions to the existing problems are emerging in all sectors: electric cars, organic farming, renewable energy and e-learning are good examples. These alternatives can be ascribed with qualities such as decentralized frugal, flexible, smart and democratic, virtues that are lacking in conventional models. They are attributed with the potential to meet the overall global challenges such as climate change and the growing inequalities between and within countries. What is the real potential of innovation? Does the rapid deployment of innovations lead towards a more sustainable and inclusive society? Can innovations and the emerging alternatives replace conventional models? Beyond technologies, what institutional innovations are required to support sustainable development? A Planet for Life 2014 aims to answer these questions and explore innovation in all its aspects, through a series of texts written by international experts. The objective of this book is to analyse experiences from across the world and the role of innovation in a variety of areas of development such as urbanization, agriculture and food, the mobility of people and freight, education and the provision of water and energy to all.
Download or read book Creating Political Presence written by Dario Castiglione and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents’ interests? How can representatives balance the desires of their parties and their electors? What should be done to strengthen the representation of groups that have been excluded from the political system? Representative democracy itself remains frequently contested, regarded as incapable of reflecting the will of the masses, or inadequate for today’s global governance. Recently, however, this view of democratic representation has been under attack for its failure to capture the performative and constructive elements of the process of representation, and a new literature more attentive to these aspects of the relationship between representatives and the represented has arisen. In Creating Political Presence, a diverse and international group of scholars explores the implications of such a turn. Two broad, overlapping perspectives emerge. In the first section, the contributions investigate how political representation relates to empowerment, either facilitating or interfering with the capacity of citizens to develop autonomous judgment in collective decision making. Contributions in the second section look at representation from the perspective of inclusion, focusing on how representative relationships and claims articulate the demands of those who are excluded or have no voice. The final section examines political representation from a more systemic perspective, exploring its broader environmental conditions and the way it acquires democratic legitimacy.
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic.
Download or read book Ocean in the Earth System written by Patrick Prouzet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity is an intrinsic property of natural systems. In the oceanic system, it is linked to many interactions with the atmosphere, geosphere and biosphere with which it exchanges energy and matter. Complexity of the ocean system has, at different spatial and temporal scales, hydrodynamic mechanisms of these exchanges and dynamics of elements and compounds, they are involved in biogeochemical cycles or used as tracers. By its pedagogical approach, it defines the terms, methods, techniques and analytical tools used. Then, it analyzes the consequences of climate change, future projections, human impact and the concept introduced with planktonic pelagic ecosystem component.
Download or read book Legislature by Lot written by John Gastil and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through “sortition”—the random selection of lay citizens. It’s a concept that has come to the attention of democratic reformers across the globe. Proposals for such bodies are being debated in Australia, Belgium, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. Sortition promises to reduce corruption and create a truly representative legislature in one fell swoop. In Legislature by Lot, John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright make the case for pairing a sortition body with an elected chamber within a bicameral legislature. Gastil is a leading deliberative democracy scholar, and Wright a distinguished sociologist and editor of the Real Utopias series, of which this is a part. In this volume, they bring together critics and advocates of sortition who have studied ancient Athens, deliberative polling, political theory, social movements, and civic innovation. Without obscuring its limitations, the contributors offer a wide variety of ideas for how to implement sortition and examine its potential for reshaping modern politics. Legislature by Lot includes sixteen essays that respond to Gastil and Wright’s detailed proposal. Essays comparing sortition to contemporary reforms see it as a dramatic extension of deliberative “minipublics,” which gather random samples of citizens to weigh public policy dilemmas without being empowered to enact legislation. Another set of essays explores the democratic principles underlying sortition and elections and considers, for example, how a sortition body holds itself accountable to a public that did not elect it. The third set of essays considers alternative paths to democratic reform, which limit the powers of a sortition chamber or more quickly establish a pure sortition body. With contributions by Arash Abizadeh, Tom Arnold, Terrill Bouricius, Deven Burks, Lyn Carson, Dimitri Courant, Donatella della Porta, David M. Farrell, Andrea Felicetti, James S. Fishkin, Brett Hennig, Vincent Jacquet, Raphaël Kies, Tom Malleson, Jane Mansbridge, Christoph Niessen, David Owen, John Pitseys, Min Reuchamps, Yves Sintomer, Graham Smith, Jane Suiter, and Pierre-Étienne Vandamme.
Download or read book Approches nationales et r gionales pour les r seaux cologiques en Europe written by R. H. Jongman and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aral written by Rene Letolle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O krn soo KAZAKHSTAN N I Fig. L 1. Carte generale du bassin de l'Aral. Noter les altitudes extremes, de -132 m ~ 7495 m sovi~tiques publient peu, ont ~W trequemment elliptiques dans leurs descriptions, par caractere ou par obligation. Beaucoup de donn~ originelles sont resWes in & lites et donc inaccessibles. D'autres sont contradictoires : en particulier, les statistiques economiques publires sont sou vent controuvees. On en verra des exemples. De sorte que des recoupements d'infonnations partielles ont ~W n~ssaires, aboutissant ~ une mosatque dont l'agencement n'a pas ~W ai~. Cette monographie ~ peu pres complete de la region de l'Aral (fig. L 1), accessible au plus grand nombre sans cependant sacrifier Ie contenu scientifique pour tous ceux qui souhaitent aller plus au fond du probleme, tente de conserver l' ~uilibre entre un livre trop technique qui serait rebarbatif et un ouvrage de vulgarisation qui c~rait ~ la faciliw. Des ouvrages g~mux sur I'URSS et Ie Turkestan ont apporW des renseignements utiles, outre une bibliographie abondante qui n'a pas ~W reproduite ici.
Download or read book Sustainability in Higher Education written by Federico Rotondo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Transition and Technological Change Transition written by Smail Aït-El-Hadjait and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the scale and intensity of the ecological crisis, environmental transition is underway, consisting of a first phase of technological mutation, aimed at replacing technologies harmful to the environment with those which have no destructive effects on the earth system and its equilibrium. This book examines the roots of the concept of environmental transition, identifying and characterizing the negative effects of technology on the environmental crisis. We will then identify the technological mutations that have the potential to contribute to environmental transition, and demonstrate how these changes are already forming part of a new emerging "technological system". We will conclude by addressing the question of the limits of technological responses to the environmental crisis, demonstrating the importance of the dimensional factors of human activity and weight of growth in this crisis, thus raising the issue of global reconsideration, with reference to the place and articulation of human activity in the Earth system.
Download or read book Dans la For t D Afrique Centrale written by Serge Bahuchet and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1992)
Download or read book Actes de la Conf rence G n rale Vingt sixi me Session Proceedings written by Unesco. General Conference and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cover Crops in West Africa written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Download or read book Effective governance of natural resources and poverty reduction written by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Central and West Africa Programme (PACO). and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014 annual report of IUCN's Central and West Africa Programme (PACO).
