In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse environmental sustainability efforts with social justice. In this edited volume, we extend calls for higher education leaders to revamp programming, pedagogy, and research that problematically reproduce dominant techno-scientific and managerial conceptualizations of sustainability. Students, staff and community partners, especially those from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups, are at the forefront of calls for critical sustainabilities programming, education and collaborations. Their work centers themes of power relations, (in)equity, accessibility, and social (in)justice to study the interrelationships between humans, non-humans, and the environment. Their voices, perspectives and lived experiences are provocations for institutions to think and act more expansively. This book amplifies some of these voices and bottom up efforts toward a more critical approach to sustainability on campus. We ground our recommendations on findings from campus-wide surveys that were taken by over 8,000 undergraduates in 2016, 2019, and 2022. Furthermore, we share the design principles and lessons learned from several innovative, award-winning initiatives designed to foster critical sustainabilities at UC Santa Cruz. 

This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador's recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature's rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration's Revolucion Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution-the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country's most marginalized peoples-to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.

Das Madchen mit der Flamme ist mutig und abenteuerlustig. In zwolf unterhaltsamen Kapiteln reist sie durch den astrologischen Tierkreis. Sie begegnet unterschiedlichen Wesen und lernt deren Eigenarten und Besonderheiten kennen. Liebevoll gestaltete Illustrationen bereichern diese wunderschone Geschichte, die Herz und Verstand gleichermassen zu beruhren versteht. Fur Kinder ab 8 Jahre

Die Autorin formt in dieser Erzahlung Kollagen zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen, entwickelt spannende Reflexionen uber Existenz, Sinn und Entwicklung, zeichnet liebevolle Details des subjektiven Alltags und schildert fast archetypisch anmutende Episoden aus einer 'frei erfundenen Wirklichkeit'. Die Leere der Zeichen ist nicht nur ein Leseabenteuer. Vielmehr wird dieser frech-frohliche, mosaikartige Text, der aktuell und humorvoll zugleich geschrieben ist, mit jeder Seite mehr auch zum gehaltvollen Lesevergnugen. Fur Erwachsene - auch fur Akademiker.