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This reader gathers fifteen of the most important essays written in
the field of southern environmental history over the past decade.
Ideal for course use, the volume provides a convenient entree into
the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of
directions in which the field is growing. As coeditor Paul S.
Sutter writes in his introduction, "recent trends in environmental
historiography--a renewed emphasis on agricultural landscapes and
their hybridity, attention to the social and racial histories of
environmental thought and practice, and connections between health
and the environment among them--have made the South newly
attractive terrain. This volume suggests, then, that southern
environmental history has not only arrived but also that it may
prove an important space for the growth of the larger environmental
history enterprise."
The writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to
the Carolina Lowcountry, address a multiplicity of topics, such as
husbandry practices in the Chesapeake colonies and the aftermath of
Hurricane Andrew. The contributors' varied disciplinary
perspectives--including agricultural history, geography, the
history of science, the history of technology, military history,
colonial American history, urban and regional planning history, and
ethnohistory--also point to the field's vitality. Conveying the
breadth, diversity, and liveliness of this maturing area of study,
"Environmental History and the American South" affirms the critical
importance of human-environmental interactions to the history and
culture of the region.
Contributors: Virginia DeJohn AndersonWilliam BoydLisa
BradyJoshua Blu BuhsJudith CarneyJames Taylor CarsonCraig E.
ColtenS. Max EdelsonJack Temple KirbyRalph H. LuttsEileen Maura
McGurtyTed SteinbergMart StewartClaire StromPaul SutterHarry
WatsonAlbert G. Way
How to sustain our world for future generations has perplexed us
for centuries. We have reached a crossroads: we may choose the
rocky path of responsibility or continue on the paved road of
excess that promises hardship for our progeny. Independent efforts
to resolve isolated issues are inadequate. Different from these
efforts and from other books on the topic, this book uses systems
thinking to understand the dominant forces that are shaping our
hope for sustainability. It first describes a mental model - the
bubble that holds our beliefs - that emerges from preponderant
world views and explains current global trends. The model
emphasizes economic growth and drives behavior toward short-term
and self-motivated outcomes that thwart sustainability. The book
then weaves statistical trends into a system diagram and shows how
the economic, environmental, and societal contributors of
sustainability interact. From this holistic perspective, it finds
leverage points where actions can be most effective and combines
eight areas of intervention into an integrated plan. By emphasizing
both individual and collective actions, it addresses the conundrum
of how to blend human nature with sustainability. Finally, it
identifies primary three lessons we can learn by applying systems
thinking to sustainability. Its metaphor-rich and accessible style
makes the complex topic approachable and allows the reader to
appreciate the intricate balance required to sustain life on Earth.
Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more
oil than some experts believe? This book points out flaws in the
research used to warn of an oil shortfall and predicts that large
new reserves of oil are soon to be tapped. In the last decade, oil
experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a
peak in oil production around the world was about to be reached and
that global economic distress would result when this occurred. But
it didn't happen. The "Peak Oil" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood
refutes the recent claims that world oil production is nearing a
peak and threatening economic disaster by analyzing the methods
used by the theory's proponents. Author Michael C. Lynch, former
researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), debunks
the "Peak Oil" crisis prediction and describes how the next few
years will instead see large amounts of new supply that will bring
oil prices down and boost the global economy. This book will be
invaluable to those involved in the energy industry, including
among those fields that are competing with oil, as well as
financial institutions for which the price of oil is of critical
importance. Lynch uncovers the facts behind the misleading news
stories and media coverage on oil production as well as the
analytic process that reveals the truth about the global oil
supply. General readers will be dismayed to learn how governments
have frequently been led astray by seeming logical theories that
prove to have no sound basis and will come away with a healthy
sense of skepticism about popular economics.
It's time to let go of disenchanted thinking and embrace enchanted living. . .
In a world full of demands and obligations, it is easy to get stuck in the same tiring routines - but what if instead we chose to embrace a life full of joy and enchantment? Nature offers the perfect antidote for weary souls. Carving out time to truly experience and engage with the wonder and beauty of the world around us can help ease our minds, soothe our spirits, and leave us feeling euphoric.
This enchanting little book offers rituals, intentions and affirmations that will allow you to commune with nature so that you can belong to both its wildness and its tenderness. By aligning with the rhythms of the natural world, you will learn to reconnect to the enchantment deep within you to live an authentic life filled with meaning and possibility.
The degradation of our life-enhancing planet Earth has resulted in
climate change, desertification, wild fires, livestock mortality,
microbial ecosystem alteration, floods, extreme weather conditions,
economic meltdown, poverty, resource conflicts, disease, death, and
desperate migration from the most vulnerable regions. Africa, the
world`s hottest continent, has deserts and drylands that cover
about 60 percent of its land surface area and remains the most
vulnerable continent to climate change. At the same time, Africa is
the world's second most populous continent and is projected soon to
be the most populous. Dr. Popoola's work highlights the uniqueness
of Africa and the extent of its vulnerability to global climate
change as well as its advantages and limitations in context of
current mitigation and adaptation strategies. Africa and Climate
Change is an indispensable guide to ensuring global food security,
sustainable livelihoods, and ecosystem survival, not only in
Africa, but in other less vulnerable continents.
Natural products are used by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics
industries, and extraction technologies and potential applications
for plant extracts are of interest to many industrial sectors.
Extraction of natural products in an economic and environmentally
friendly way is of high importance to all industries involved. The
second edition of this book presents an updated, holistic, in-depth
view of the more environmentally benign techniques available for
the extraction of natural products, along with their newest
applications and case studies. Conventional and emerging extraction
techniques are discussed in detail. New topics include enzymes,
pulsed electric energy, and on-line/in-line analysis. Written for
academics and industrialists working in both natural product
extraction and green chemistry, this new edition provides a
valuable update on current trends in the field.
"Handbook of Recycling" is an authoritative review of the
current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation
processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one
another. The book addresses several material flows, including iron,
steel, aluminum and other metals, pulp and paper, plastics, glass,
construction materials, industrial by-products, and more. It also
details various recycling technologies as well as recovery and
collection techniques. To completely round out the picture of
recycling, the book considers policy and economic implications,
including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable
development, and the environment.
With contemporary recycling literature scattered across
disparate, unconnected articles, this book is a crucial aid to
students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials
and environmental science to public policy studies.
Portrays recent and emerging technologies in metal recycling,
by-product utilization and management of post-consumer wasteUses
life cycle analysis to show how to reclaim valuable resources from
mineral and metallurgical wastesUses examples from current
professional and industrial practice, with policy and economic
implications
"Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and
Policy" addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise
pollution with a particular focus on the European Union.
Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and
environmental concern and is considered to be one of the most
important environmental stressors affecting public health
throughout the world.
This book examines environmental noise pollution, its health
implications, the role of strategic noise mapping for problem
assessment, major sources of environmental noise pollution, noise
mitigation approaches, and related procedural and policy
implications. Drawing on the authors' considerable research
expertise in the area, the book is the first coherent work on this
major environmental stressor, a new benchmark reference across
disciplinary, policy and national boundaries.
Highlights recent developments in the policy arena with particular
focus on developments in the EU within the context of the European
Noise DirectiveExplores the lessons emerging from nations within
the EU and other jurisdictions attempting to legislate and mitigate
against the harmful effects of noise pollutionCovers the core
theoretical concepts and principles surrounding the mechanics of
noise pollution as well as the evidence-base linking noise with
public health concerns
This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience
in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.
Written for early academic professionals, students, and community
practitioners, it investigates the educational and practical
meaning and application of community resilience using a UK-centric
local-level case study. Exploring the perceptions of both those who
have been affected by a natural hazard and those who have not, the
book reveals how trust, community resources, and neighborhood
security can offer effective ways of bringing communities together
after a natural hazard. The author introduces the topic of
community resilience as it applies to disasters in Chapter 1 and
its implications for securing and improving the wellbeing of
disaster-affected communities in Chapters 2 and 3. In Chapter 4,
the lessons learned contributing to the available information and
research on community resilience are reviewed. Finally, the author
offers recommendations and outlines future directions in coping
with the uncertainty and insecurity caused by natural hazards in
Chapter 5.
This book offers a comprehensive survey of Heidegger's ideas on
technology and modernity.The scale of some environmental problems,
such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one
nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift
in the culture of modernity. "Heidegger, Politics and Climate
Change" examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about
technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the
primary questions that make it meaningful to be human - the
question of Being - could create the means for alternative
discourses that both challenge and sidestep the attempt for total
surveillance and total control. He advocates recognising the
problematic relationship humanity has with the environment and
reinventing new trajectories of understanding ourselves and our
planet.This book aims to properly integrate environment into
philosophy and political theory, offering a constructive critique
of modernity with some helpful suggestions for establishing a
readiness for blue sky scenarios for the future. The book lays out
the practical implications of Heidegger's ideas and engages with
philosophy of technology, considering the constraints and the
potentials of technology on culture and environment.
The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been
central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent
now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise
dramatically by 2050. While the term 'carnism' denotes the
invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and
normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on 'meat
culture', which refers to all the tangible and practical forms
through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring
new work from leading Australasian, European and North American
scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the
representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and
tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and
experiences of meat in the 21st century.
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