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The authors of Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the
Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities share the diversity and
complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining
relationships between humans and other living beings within an
eco-conscious lens. Michelle Montgomery's edited volume shows that
we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all
nature as well. The contributors demonstrate that the reciprocity
of Indigenous knowledges is inclusive and represents worldviews for
regenerative solutions and the need to realign our view of the
environment as a "who" rather than an "it." This reciprocity is
intertwined as an obligation of environmental ethics to acknowledge
the attributes of Indigenous knowledges as not merely a body of
knowledge but as multiple layers or levels of placed-based
knowledges, identities, and lived experiences.
Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative
Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching
about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to
today's students-climate fiction and protest poetry, horror and
documentary films, video games and social media. The stories are
used as exemplars, from exploring space debris to urban design
planning to fast fashion and provide entry points for investigating
particular aspects of climate science, including the local and
global impacts of a warming planet. Each chapter provides analysis
and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through
knowledge, empathy, and agency. The contributors encourage
educators to answer students' calls for comprehensive K-12 climate
education by aligning pedagogy with real-world challenges to
prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the
climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. Contributors
from around the world share their own stories and urge educators to
join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by
classroom.
Environmental degradation in the world is one of discussing
problems in the literature for many decades. There are a lot of
factors discussed that worsen our environment. Environmental
degradation due to the pollution from fossil fuels induce countries
to decrease their use, however, until the productivity of renewable
resources reaches the necessary level, countries continue to be
highly dependent on non-renewable sources. Another important issue
is increasing waste in all spheres of our life. One of the
solutions for the environmental degradation slowdown is in circular
economy. The circular economy aims to produce as less waste as
possible by reusing materials in new productions. The circular
economy is becoming part of many different sectors of an economy.
This book discusses and analyzes different sectors that are
starting to be involved in the circular economy process in Turkey.
The recent Brexit debates present leaving the European Union
largely as a threat to environmental protection, and to
environmental law. This exciting and important new work argues that
Brexit represents a real opportunity for environmental protection
in the United Kingdom, freeing it from a pan-European framework not
necessarily fit for UK domestic purposes. Central to the argument
is the belief that environmental protection, in the United Kingdom,
can most effectively be pursued through established domestic
institutions, looking inwards at 'local' challenges and outwards at
more global ones, all the while drawing on considerable historical
experience. The book is designed to address rather than dismiss
those concerns raised by environmental lawyers after the outcome of
the referendum. Provocative and compelling, it offers an
alternative vision of the UK environmental law framework outside of
the European Union.
Coastal Management: Global Challenges and Innovations focuses on
the resulting problems faced by coastal areas in developing
countries with a goal of helping create updated management and
tactical approaches for researchers, field practitioners, planners
and policymakers. This book gathers, compiles and interprets recent
developments, starting from paleo-coastal climatic conditions, to
current climatic conditions that influence coastal resources.
Chapters included cover almost all aspects of coastal area
management, including sustainability, coastal communities, hazards,
ocean currents and environmental monitoring.
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Walking
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Henry David Thoreau
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In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of
nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature,
physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending
more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a
self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away
from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find
other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society.
This new edition of Thoreau's classic work includes annotations and
a biographical essay.
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Morgan Spring
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M. Ralph Browning; Foreword by Alan Contreras
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Most livestock in the United States currently live in cramped and
unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with
humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being
transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock,
Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents
alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms,
interviews with producers and activists, and other rich material
about the current condition of livestock. In addition, she mixes
her account with pragmatist and ecofeminist theorizing about
animals, drawing in particular on John Dewey's account of
evolutionary history, and provides substantial historical
background about individual species and about human-animal
relations. This deeply informative text reveals that the animals we
commonly see as livestock have rich evolutionary histories,
species-specific behaviors, breed tendencies, and individual
variation, just as those we respect in companion animals such as
dogs, cats, and horses. To restore a similar level of respect for
livestock, McKenna examines ways we can balance the needs of our
livestock animals with the environmental and social impacts of
raising them, and she investigates new possibilities for humans to
be in relationships with other animals. This book thus offers us a
picture of healthier, more respectful relationships with livestock.
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