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Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology
There has been an exponential growth in international environmental
treaty-making over the past fifty years, to the point of 'treaty
congestion' - with a total of more than 1,300 multilateral (global
and regional) agreements on the topic and close to 3,000 bilateral
ones currently in force. This research review addresses this
phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives:
international law, political science, and 'ecological economics'.
The objective is comparative analysis, with a view to identifying
common features and common problems of transnational environmental
regimes, in light of their historical evolution, their application
and effectiveness in practice, and possible lessons learned in
their institutional 'interplay' with each other.
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are
bound inextricably with fossil fuel consumption. But as carbon
energy resources become scarcer, what implications will this have
for energy-intensive modes of life? Can renewable energy sustain
high levels of accumulation?? Or will we witness the end of
existing capitalist economies? This book provides an innovative and
timely study that mobilizes a new theory of capitalism to explain
the rise and fall of petro-market civilization. Di Muzio
investigates how theorists of political economy have largely taken
energy for granted and illuminates how the exploitation of fossil
fuels increased the universalization and magnitude of capital
accumulation. He then examines the likelihood of renewable
resources providing a feasible alternative and asks whether they
can beat peak oil prices to sustain food production, health care,
science and democracy. Using the capital as power framework, this
book considers the unevenly experienced consequences of monetizing
fossil fuels for people and the planet.
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Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development
and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a
reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are
interested in this subject and intend venture into serious
research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and
highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a
wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
In today's society, businesses are being pressured to play a more
active role in addressing global environmental, social, and
economic issues. Therefore, a considerable shift in the functional
components of enterprises is required to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals. SMEs play a vital role in countries'
socio-economic structures, and the importance of SMEs is
increasingly recognized as a factor of economic stability and
social cohesion. In order to ensure SMEs are appropriately utilized
to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, further study is
required. Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the challenges and
opportunities of using the concepts of economic sustainability to
achieve sustainability goals as well as the role SMEs play in
developing sustainable practices. The book also discusses how
finance sustainability can be used to improve the stability of
policies. Covering topics such as blockchain, corporate social
responsibility, and performance management practices, this
reference work is ideal for business owners, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective takes as its subject a
prospective policy response to the urgent problem of climate
change, one previously considered taboo. Climate engineering, the
"deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment
in order to counteract anthropogenic climate change," encapsulates
a wide array of technological proposals. Daniel Edward Callies here
focuses on one proposal currently being researched-stratospheric
aerosol injection-which would spray aerosol particles into the
upper atmosphere to thus reflect a small portion of incoming
sunlight and slightly cool the globe. This book asks important
questions that should guide moral and political discussions of
geoengineering. Does engaging in such research lead us towards
inexorable deployment? Could this research draw us away from the
more important tasks of mitigation and adaptation? Should we avoid
risky interventions in the climate system altogether? What would
legitimate governance of this technology look like? What would
constitute a just distribution of the benefits and burdens
associated with stratospheric aerosol injection? Who ought to be
included in the decision-making process? Callies offers a normative
perspective on these and other questions related to engineering the
climate, ultimately arguing for research and regulation guided by
norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice.
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and
Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in
the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies
interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler
describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual
practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this
synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological
variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research
with information from geospatial science, marine ecology,
astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.
This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global
level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.
This book makes a unique contribution as the work looks at global
consequences of mineral exhaustion and steps that can be taken to
alleviate the impending problems. This book highlights how
sustainability has become one of the most important issues for
businesses, governments and society at large. This book explores
the topic of sustainability as one that is under much debate as to
what it actually is and how it can be achieved, but it is
completely evident that the resources of the planet are fixed in
quantity, and once used, cannot be reused except through being
reused in one form or another. This is particularly true of the
mineral resources of the planet. These are finite in quantity, and
once fully extracted, extra quantities are no longer available for
future use. This book argues and presents evidence that the
remaining mineral resources are diminishing significantly and
heading towards exhaustion. Once mined and consumed, they are no
longer available for future use other than what can be recycled and
reused. This book demonstrates that future scarcity means that best
use must be made of what exists, as sustainability depends upon
this, and best use is defined as utility rather than economic
value, which must be considered at a global level rather than a
national level. Moreover, sustainability depends upon both
availability in the present and in the future, so the use of
resources requires attention to the future as well as to the
present. This book investigates the alternative methods of
achieving the global distribution of these mineral resources and
proposes an optimum solution. This book adds to the discourse
through the understanding of the importance of the depletion and
finiteness of raw materials and their use for the present and the
future, in order to achieve and maintain sustainability.
Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital
revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the
university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in
an accessible, affirmative and remarkably original analysis in his
thought. This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of
Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it.
This is done by expanding upon the urgent themes that Serres works
on; by furthering his materialism, his emphasis on communication
and information, his focus on the senses, and the role of
mathematics in thought. His famous concepts, such as the parasite,
'amis de viellesse', and the algorithm are applied in 21st century
situations. With contributions from an international and
interdisciplinary team of authors, these writings tackle the crises
of today and affirm the contemporary relevance of Serres'
philosophy.
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