Download or read book Transition nerg tique et in galit s environnementales written by Guillaume Christen and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La transition énergétique constitue un symbole fort de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. A partir du cas alsacien, nous abordons ici le développement actuel des énergies renouvelables comme analyseur des registres à succès de la «transition» et du «développement durable», et de ce qu'ils signifient concrètement pour des citoyens et des habitants sensibles aux menaces pesant sur leur environne- ment direct et sur la planète, mais dont les capacités à agir sont souvent contraintes par ceux-là mêmes - décideurs, techniciens, associatifs spécialisés.. - qui construisent l'énergie comme un bien commun. Les auteurs proposent ici une réflexion de large portée en sociologie de la ville et de l'environnement, en même temps qu'une plongée vivante dans les défis actuels de l'urbanisme et de l'aménagement.

Download or read book Transition nerg tique bas carbone written by Frédérick Lemarchand (enseignant-chercheur en sociologie).) and published by Sociologies et Environnement. This book was released on 2022 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les sciences humaines se sont développées en se focalisant sur le social. Elles sont toutefois rattrapées par l'extraordinaire essor des effets du « développement », des choix technologiques et des problèmes écologiques, ce qui les conduit à intégrer les techniques dans leur champ de recherche. La question de la transition bas-carbone est un objet majeur, tant elle englobe toutes les dimensions de la vie individuelle et collective : choix technologiques, orientations politiques, usages et pratiques, imaginaires et horizons d'attente. Cet ouvrage aborde différents problèmes théoriques et pratiques de la transition bas-carbone, et plus particulièrement celle de la place des technologiques de l'hydrogène dans cette dernière, en tentant de répondre à une question de départ : les acteurs sociaux peuvent-ils, à l'échelle des territoires, se réapproprier la question de l'énergie ?

Download or read book R ussir la transition nerg tique written by Collectif and published by Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La transition écologique, énoncée au Sommet de Rio+20, inscrit au cœur des agendas des États et des collectivités la volonté de mise en œuvre simultanée de plusieurs objectifs – réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, promotion des énergies renouvelables – tout en interrogeant nos besoins. En France, cette question s'est focalisée sur la problématique de la transition énergétique. Loin de faire consensus, cette notion donne néanmoins naissance à une recrudescence de solutions techniques de verdissement (rénovation des bâtiments, éco-conception des produits, revalorisation des déchets...) dont l’apogée se retrouve dans la promotion des démarches « intelligentes » – smart – à l’échelle des réseaux et des villes. Or, d’autres modèles d’efficacité ou de sobriété énergétique ne pourraient-ils pas cohabiter ? Ne conviendrait-il pas d’interroger l’échelle intermédiaire de l’aménagement du territoire et de la planification afin de mesurer les potentialités de transition énergétique urbaine ou rurale ? L’action sur les systèmes techniques ne passerait-elle pas aussi par une revalorisation efficace des connaissances et savoir-faire locaux ? Ne peut-on pas croire que l’insignifiance de l’échelle individuelle ait un impact significatif à l’échelle collective ? Si toute activité humaine entraîne une consommation d’énergie, la façon dont les hommes maîtrisent celle-ci est au fondement de nos modes de vie et de l’organisation de nos sociétés. L’ouvrage se compose de trois parties mettant en évidence la diversité géographique et thématique des leviers possibles du changement autour d’une question centrale : comment réussir la transition énergétique ? La première partie permet d’interroger la mise en œuvre opérationnelle locale de la transition énergétique et ses limites dans la réponse qu’elle apporte à la crise environnementale globale. La seconde propose une vision prospective de ce que devrait être la transition énergétique en développant des pistes prenant en compte l’individu, la technologie et l’épaisseur du territoire. Sont exposés, dans la dernière partie de l’ouvrage, des scénarios régionaux de sobriété énergétique et de transformations sociétales axés sur les modes de vie et de société afin de réduire notre dépendance à l’énergie.

Download or read book Demain quelle Terre written by Jean-Louis Bobin and published by EDP Sciences. This book was released on 2022-10-14T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Énergie et environnement sont les deux partenaires d’un couple infernal. La perspective d’une pénurie de ressources et la menace d’un changement climatique poussent à entamer une transition énergétique difficile à définir car ses objectifs diffèrent suivant les interlocuteurs. Les défenseurs de la Nature voient le salut de la planète dans une forte réduction de la consommation d’énergie qui automatiquement minimiserait les atteintes à l’environnement. D’autres comptent sur des avancées technologiques afin de poursuivre le développement des sociétés tout en respectant le cadre naturel. Cet ouvrage se présente sous forme d’un dialogue, inspiré de celui écrit par Galilée en 1632 mettant en scène trois personnages aux visions différentes. Pendant quatre jours, ils vont confronter leurs points de vue sur les relations que les hommes entretiennent avec la Nature et les enseignements qu’il convient d’en tirer afin de mener à bien une transition énergétique imposée par la conjoncture de ce début de millénaire. Place de l’Homme dans les écosystèmes, climat, énergie, organisation de la société, sont tour à tour abordés dans un débat où se mêlent l’histoire, les sciences, l’économie... et par instants, la mauvaise foi ! Écrit dans un style fluide et ne nécessitant pas de connaissances scientifiques préalables, cet ouvrage intéressera tout lecteur se sentant concernés par les problèmes énergétiques mondiaux actuels.

Download or read book Ethnographies of Power written by Tristan Loloum and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Download or read book Becoming Urban Cyclists written by Matthieu Adam and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century cycling has been re-considered as utilitarian transport. Starting from a low modal share, it has surged in many major cities of the Global North and is now being integrated into mobility and urban planning programmes and infrastructure. This book focuses on the process of "becoming" an urban cyclist through socialization.

Download or read book Deviance and Social Control written by Linda Bell Deutschmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created for the Introduction to Deviance course, Deviance and Social Control, 4e uses theory and examples to illustrate societal perceptions of deviance throughout the ages, without assuming prior knowledge of introductory sociology or research methods. All theories are carefully considered and explored, illustrating how classical theories influence contemporary ones, in a manner that is meaningful to students.

Download or read book Facing An Unequal World written by Raquel Sosa Elizaga and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale University Over recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today. Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes: The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures The social injuries of inequality, and overcoming inequalities Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.

Download or read book Deviced written by Doreen Dodgen-Magee and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, paren...

Download or read book Everyday Europe written by Recchi, Ettore and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on unique research and rich data on cross-border practices, this book offers an empirically-based view on Europeans’ interconnections in everyday life. It looks at the ways in which EU residents have been getting closer across national frontiers: in their everyday experiences of foreign countries – work, travel, personal networks – but also their knowledge, consumption of foreign products, and attitudes towards foreign culture. These evolving European dimensions have been enabled by the EU-backed legal opening to transnational economic and cultural transactions, while also differing according to national contexts. The book considers how people reconcile their increasing cross-border interconnections and a politically separating Europe of nation states and national interests.

Download or read book Migration and Inequality written by Mirna Safi and published by Polity. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.

Download or read book Socioeconomic Inequality and Student Outcomes written by Louis Volante and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes across various Western industrialized nations and the varying success they have had in addressing achievement gaps in lower socioeconomic status student populations. It presents the national profiles of countries with notable achievement gaps within the respective school-aged student populations, explains the trajectory of achievement results in relation to both national and international large-scale assessment measures, and discusses how relevant education policies have evolved within their national contexts. Most importantly, the national profiles investigate the effectiveness of policy responses that have been adopted to close the achievement gap in lower socioeconomic status student populations. This book provides a cross-national analysis of policy approaches designed to address socioeconomic inequality.

Download or read book An Ugly Word written by Ann Morning and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and politicians often assume a significant gap between the ways that Americans and Europeans think about race. According to this template, in the U.S. race is associated with physical characteristics, while in Western Europe race has disappeared, and discrimination is based on insurmountable cultural differences. However, little research has addressed how average Americans and Europeans actually think and talk about race. In An Ugly Word, sociologists Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri examine American and Italian understandings of group difference in order to determine if and how they may differ. Morning and Maneri interviewed over 150 people across the two countries about differences among what they refer to as “descent-based groups.” Using this concept allowed them to sidestep the language of “race” and “ethnicity,” which can be unnecessarily narrow, poorly defined, or even offensive to some. Drawing on these interviews, the authors find that while ways of speaking about group difference vary considerably across the Atlantic, underlying beliefs about it do not. The similarity in American and Italian understandings of difference was particularly evident when discussing sports. Both groups relied heavily on traditional stereotypes of Black physicality to explain Black athletes’ overrepresentation in sports like U.S. football and their underrepresentation in sports like swimming – contradicting the claims that a biological notion of race is a distinctly American phenomenon. While American and Italian concepts of difference may overlap extensively, they are not identical. Interviews in Italy were more likely to reveal beliefs about groups’ innate, unchangeable temperaments, such as friendly Senegalese and dishonest Roma. And where physical difference was seen by Italians as superficial and unimportant, cultural difference was perceived as deeply meaningful and consequential. In contrast, U.S. interviewees saw cultural difference as supremely malleable—and often ascribed the same fluidity to racial identity, which they believed stemmed from culture as well as biology. In light of their findings, Morning and Maneri propose a new approach to understanding cross-cultural beliefs about descent-based difference that includes identifying the traits people believe differentiate groups, how they believe those traits are acquired, and whether they believe these traits can change. An Ugly Word is an illuminating, cross-national examination of the ways in which people around the world make sense of race and difference.

Download or read book Personal Networks written by Bernice Pescosolido and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks. A must-have resource for both newcomers and seasoned experts.

Download or read book Reset Your Child s Brain written by Victoria L. Dunckley, MD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders but don’t respond well to treatment. They are then medicated, often with poor results and unwanted side effects. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, integrative child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause, Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS). Dr. Dunckley has found that everyday use of interactive screen devices — such as computers, video games, smartphones, and tablets — can easily overstimulate a child’s nervous system, triggering a variety of stubborn symptoms. In contrast, she’s discovered that a strict, extended electronic fast single-handedly improves mood, focus, sleep, and behavior, regardless of the child’s diagnosis. It also reduces the need for medication and renders other treatments more effective. Offered now in this book, this simple intervention can produce a life-changing shift in brain function and help your child get back on track — all without cost or medication. While no one in today’s connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dr. Dunckley provides hope for parents who feel that their child has been misdiagnosed or inappropriately medicated, by presenting an alternative explanation for their child’s difficulties and a concrete plan for treating them.

Download or read book Property Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.

Download or read book The Revolution That Wasn t written by Jen Schradie and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This surprising study of online political mobilization shows that money and organizational sophistication influence politics online as much as off, and casts doubt on the democratizing power of digital activism. The internet has been hailed as a leveling force that is reshaping activism. From the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, digital activism seemed cheap, fast, and open to all. Now this celebratory narrative finds itself competing with an increasingly sinister story as platforms like Facebook and Twitter—once the darlings of digital democracy—are on the defensive for their role in promoting fake news. While hashtag activism captures headlines, conservative digital activism is proving more effective on the ground. In this sharp-eyed and counterintuitive study, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful. She zeroes in on workers’ rights advocacy in North Carolina and finds a case study with broad implications. North Carolina’s hard-right turn in the early 2010s should have alerted political analysts to the web’s antidemocratic potential: amid booming online organizing, one of the country’s most closely contested states elected the most conservative government in North Carolina’s history. The Revolution That Wasn’t identifies the reasons behind this previously undiagnosed digital-activism gap. Large hierarchical political organizations with professional staff can amplify their digital impact, while horizontally organized volunteer groups tend to be less effective at translating online goodwill into meaningful action. Not only does technology fail to level the playing field, it tilts it further, so that only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.