Emergent Ecologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emergent Ecologies write by Eben Kirksey. This book was released on 2015-11-27. Emergent Ecologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporary philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of capital and nomadic forms of life—through fragmented landscapes of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States—Kirksey explores how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecological assemblages—involving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys, people, and plants—by seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them, and ultimately letting go.
Ecologies for Learning and Practice
Ecologies for Learning and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecologies for Learning and Practice write by Ronald Barnett. This book was released on 2019-11-06. Ecologies for Learning and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world. It focuses on how individuals and society are being presented with all manner of learning challenges arising from fluidities and disruptions, which extend across all domains of life. This book examines emerging ways of understanding and living purposively in these new fluidities and provides fresh perspectives on the way we learn and achieve in such dynamic contexts. Providing an insight into the research of a range of internationally renowned contributors, this book explores diverse topics from the higher education and adult learning worlds. These include: The challenges faced by education systems today The concept of ecologies for learning and practice The role and responsibility of higher education institutions in advancing ecological approaches to learning The different eco-social systems of the world—local and global, economic, cultural, practical, technological, and ethical How adult learners might create and manage their own ecologies for learning and practice in order to sustain themselves and flourish With its proposals for individual and institutional learning in the 21st century and concerns for our sustainability in a fragile world, Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an essential guide for all who seek to encourage and facilitate learning in a world that is fundamentally ecological in nature.
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland write by Susan Oliver. This book was released on 2021-08-12. Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practising Feminist Political Ecologies write by Wendy Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-05-14. Practising Feminist Political Ecologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.
Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace
Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace write by Jennifer Foster. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Post-industrial urban spaces typically include abandoned factories, disused rail lines, old pits and quarries, and de-commissioned landfills. In these places, different visions compete for dominance with respect to current and future land uses. Neighbours often view such urban greenspace as polluted, unkempt and weedy, harbouring undesirable biophysical features and people. These are spaces that often become the focus of some form of revitalization, reinvestment and restoration. From the perspective of civic authorities and urban planners, transforming post-industrial landscapes into disciplined and tended greenspace creates the urban conditions and signals of popular contemporary taste that attract investors, gentrifiers, and tourists. But post-industrial spaces are also places where unique and unpredictable human and ecological associations can emerge spontaneously. Such places may contain considerable ecological integrity and biodiversity and host human populations who find a home and respite in such ecologies. They also tell stories of an industrial and urban past that should be acknowledged, understood and (if suitable) celebrated. This volume explores the environmental justice and injustice dimensions of emerging urban post-industrial landscapes, including the ecological politics, cultural representations and aesthetics of these spaces. This bookw as published as a special issue of Local Environment.
