This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes. The account of the history of such changes and turmoil in India and abroad starts in the prehistoric period, long before the emergence of “Rigveda”, the first human written work. The book describes the writings of Aristotle and …
SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy -- SECTION 2 - CHANGING FORMS OF URBAN ACTIVISM -- Housing Activism against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK -- Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social reproduction -- From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Ri…
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What is Downtown?- Where is Downtown?- How and Why Downtown America is Changing -- People Who Are Changing Downtown -- Organizations that are Changing Downtown -- Lessons for Any Downtown -- Emerging 21st Century Downtowns -- Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Generation -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index."Alex Garvin looks at cities with a clearer eye than any other…
Taiwan’s Geoparks -- A New Way of Understanding Geoparks for Society -- An Island State on a Cradle -- Geoparks Manifesting Human Relationships to the Environment -- Environmental Education for Geoparks -- Practices and Challenges -- Geo-Hazards and Geo-Tourism as Stimulators for Geoparks -- Landscape Conservation as a Tool for Sustainability -- The Development of Taiwan’s Geoparks -- The P…
Part1. Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future -- Chapter1. Preparing Students to Address Grand Challenges and Wicked Problems: The InTeGrate Approach -- Chapter2. The InTeGrate materials development rubric: A framework and process for developing curricular materials that meet ambitious goals -- Chapter3. Facilitating the development of effective interdisciplinary curric…
"I know of no similar work (in scope, content and orientation). That is why we are all waiting so anxiously for this volume to be completed. Its perspective is unique." Charles Finkl, Editor to the Journal of Coastal Research.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Outdoor Recreation and Recreation Ecology.-Chapter 2: Recreational Walking -- Chapter 3 Mountain Marathons, Adventure Racing, and Mountain Tours -- Chapter 4 Recreational Climbing and Scrambling -- Chapter 5 Gorge Walking, Canyoneering, or Canyoning -- Chapter 6 Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles, Including Snowmobiling -- Chapter 7 Mountain Biking -- Chapter 8 Camping…
1.0 Setting the Scene -- 2.0 Contemporary Geoethics within Geosciences -- 3.0 Exploring Societal Intersections of Geoethical Thinking -- 4.0 Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche -- 5.0 Reframing Geoethics?This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system. It…
Chapter1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World -- Chapter2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change -- Chapter3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge -- Chapter4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations -- Chapter5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory -- Chapter6: Stewarding Sustainabilit…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Breakfast -- Chapter 2 Orange Juice -- Chapter 3 Wheat Bread -- Chapter 4 Tea -- Chapter 5 Milk -- Break time -- Chapter 6 Chocolate -- Chapter 7 Bananas -- Chapter 8 Coffee -- Lunch -- Chapter 9 Chicken -- Chapter 10 Rice -- Chapter 11 Maize -- Dinner -- Chapter 12 Potatoes -- Chapter 13 Cod -- Chapter 14 Champagne -- Chapter 15 Conclusion. .Open AccessThis open acces…