The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability - 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 The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability write by Fausto O. Sarmiento. This book was released on 2020-05-29. The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.
Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya
Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya - 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 Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya write by Judith Müller. This book was released on 2022-11-16. Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has experienced high rates of urbanisation on the one hand, and tourist numbers have increased exponentially on the other, which has implications for the water supply of the people living there. Through several years of on-site research, challenges on various levels were documented and current governance approaches were analysed. This research forms the basis for future approaches to sustainable development.
Montology Palimpsest
Montology Palimpsest - 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 Montology Palimpsest write by Fausto O. Sarmiento. This book was released on 2023-01-01. Montology Palimpsest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces an innovative approach to sustainable and regenerative mountain development. Transdisciplinary to biophysical and biocultural scales, it provides answers to the "what, when, how, why, and where" that researchers question on mountains, including the most challenging: So What! Forwarding thinking in its treatment of core subjects, this decolonial, non-hegemonic volume inaugurates the Series with contributions of seasoned montologists, and invites the reader to an engaging excursion to ascend the rugged topography of paradigms, with the scaffolding hike of ambitious curiosity typical of mountain explorers. Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Sustainability and Privilege
Sustainability and Privilege - 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 Sustainability and Privilege write by Gabriel Arboleda. This book was released on 2022-05-13. Sustainability and Privilege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social design—the practice of designing for poverty relief—is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture. Its advocates, focusing on the architect’s creativity and good intentions, are overwhelmingly laudatory, while its detractors, concerned with the experience of its beneficiaries, have dismissed it as an expression of cultural imperialism. Placed midway between innocuous celebration and radical critique, Sustainability and Privilege highlights the lessons that can be learned from social design’s current limitations and proposes a feasible way to improve this practice. In this broad-ranging account, enlivened by fieldwork and case studies, Gabriel Arboleda contends that social design’s invocation of sustainability often serves to marginalize and displace vulnerable populations through projects that involve experimentation of faulty alternative technologies, or that result in so-called green gentrification, or that impose untoward economic and other burdens. Arboleda is fiercely critical of the way social design has been carried out in impoverished regions of the world, most notably in Africa and Latin America. In addressing the challenges posed by issues of privilege in social design’s use of sustainability, the book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called ethnoarchitecture, arguing for a simpler, open-ended, and stakeholder-driven process that eliminates the casual imposition of the architect’s ideas on vulnerable populations, foregrounding the people’s voices, experience, and input in social design practice.
Field Environmental Philosophy
Field Environmental Philosophy - 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 Field Environmental Philosophy write by Ricardo Rozzi. This book was released on 2023-06-23. Field Environmental Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fifth volume in the Ecology and Ethics series integrates key concepts of the previous four volumes by addressing biocultural conservation through novel educational methods. In Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP), the authors undertake two complementary tasks. First, they address a problematic facet of education as an indirect driver of a global change and biocultural homogenization. Second, they contribute to solve the former problems by introducing the FEP method as well as other educational approaches from around the world that value and foster conservation of biological and cultural diversity. A particular emphasis is therefore on the integration of sciences, arts, humanities, and ethics into educational practices that involve the participation of local communities with their diverse forms of ecological knowledge and practices. The book is divided into four parts. Part I introduces FEP concepts and practices that involve a 4-step cycle of transdisciplinary research, poetic communication through composition of metaphors, design of field activities guided with an ecological and ethical orientation, and participation in biocultural conservation activities. Part II exposes problems as well as solutions in formal education (from preschool to higher education) and non-formal education to respect biocultural diversity. Parts III & IV provide case studies developed at long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) sites, botanical gardens, and other platforms for non-formal education that contribute to biocultural conservation. This book supports a paradigm shift addressing still understudied indirect drivers of global change to foster the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. It is a valuable asset for scientists and practitioners in science and humanities education.
