Natural Interests - 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 Natural Interests write by Caroline Ford. This book was released on 2016-03-28. Natural Interests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating floods of 1856 and 1910 in Paris—caused growing worry over the damage wrought by deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The natural world took on new value for France’s urban bourgeoisie, as both a site of aesthetic longing and a destination for tourism. Not only naturalists and scientists but politicians, engineers, writers, and painters took up environmental causes. Imperialism and international dialogue were also instrumental in shaping environmental consciousness, as the unfamiliar climates of France’s overseas possessions changed perceptions of the natural world and influenced conservationist policies. By the early twentieth century, France had adopted innovative environmental legislation, created national and urban parks and nature reserves, and called for international cooperation on environmental questions.
Sharing Nature's Interest
Sharing Nature's Interest - 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 Sharing Nature's Interest write by Nicky Chambers. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Sharing Nature's Interest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
After Nature
After Nature - 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 After Nature write by Jedediah Purdy. This book was released on 2015-09. After Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Artforum Best Book of the Year A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics—a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world. “After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s “Dazzling...Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political... For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship—about Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future.” —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate
Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate - 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 Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate write by Jean-Marc Natal. This book was released on 2019-05-06. Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We argue that strong globalization forces have been an important determinant of global real interest rates over the last five decades, as they have been key drivers of changes in the natural real interest rate—i.e. the interest rate consistent with output at its potential and constant inflation. An important implication of our analysis is that increased competition in goods and labor market since the 1970s can help explain both the large increase in real interest rates up to the mid-1980s and—as globalization forces mature and may even go into reverse, leading to incrementally rising market power—its subsequent and protracted decline accompanied by lower inflation. The analysis has important implications for monetary policy and the optimal pace of normalization.
States and Nature
States and Nature - 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 States and Nature write by Joshua Busby. This book was released on 2022-03-24. States and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Busby explains how climate change can affect security outcomes, including violent conflict and humanitarian emergencies. Through case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, the book develops a novel argument explaining why climate change leads to especially bad security outcomes in some places but not in others.
