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Martin Mulligan, Jack D McLean
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An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a
comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are
encompassed within the growing field of sustainability. The fully
updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases
out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and
emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the
subject for the first time, it is unique in giving students from
different disciplinary backgrounds a coherent framework and set of
core principles for applying broad sustainability principles within
their own personal and professional lives. These include: working
to improve equality within and across generations; moving from
consumerism to quality of life goals; and respecting diversity in
both nature and culture. Areas of emerging importance such as the
economics of prosperity and wellbeing stand alongside core topics
including: * Energy and society * Consumption and consumerism *
Risk and resilience * Waste, water and land. Key challenges and
applications are explored through international case studies, and
each chapter includes a thematic essay drawing on diverse
literature to provide an integrated introduction to fundamental
issues. Housed on the Routledge Sustainability Hub, the book's
companion website contains a range of features to engage students
with the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. Together these
resources provide a wealth of material for learning, teaching and
researching the topic of sustainability. This textbook is an
essential companion to any sustainability course.
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide
array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected
communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held
assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and
engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more
critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented
community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated
divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in
ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that
well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The
wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around
the world is presented to help establish ways of working with
communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers
practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric
of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It
suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community
formation that is particularly relevant when people experience
unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title
interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review
of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities
in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an
array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political
contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster
recovery solutions-an aspect which has received little critical
interrogation in the literature-this book will be a valuable
resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as
humanitarian agencies.
Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide
array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected
communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held
assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and
engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more
critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented
community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated
divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in
ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that
well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The
wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around
the world is presented to help establish ways of working with
communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers
practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric
of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It
suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community
formation that is particularly relevant when people experience
unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title
interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review
of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities
in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an
array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political
contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster
recovery solutions-an aspect which has received little critical
interrogation in the literature-this book will be a valuable
resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as
humanitarian agencies.
This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief
and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were
affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most
extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community rebuilding
yet reported in the literature on the subject. The authors draw on
this research to develop a three-phase strategy for moving from
quick and effective relief to long-term social recovery work. While
there have been many big natural disasters since then, none have
affected so many local communities spread over so many nations and
none have evoked the same kind of global response. A great deal of
post-tsunami recovery work was done in India and Sri Lanka, with
more than 500 international aid and humanitarian agencies involved
in Sri Lanka alone - many with little experience in long-term
community development. This book argues that international aid
agencies must work patiently to put in place meaningful
partnerships with local, community-based organisations as soon as
long-term physical and social planning becomes possible. The
authors explain that such an approach could help address some
pre-existing vulnerabilities in disaster-affected communities. They
argue that it is much easier to rebuild damaged infrastructure than
to rebuild shattered lives, and to ensure that traumatised
communities are not put under new stresses and strains, the
'fault-lines' within these communities need to be lessened.
This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief
and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were
affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most
extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community rebuilding
yet reported in the literature on the subject. The authors draw on
this research to develop a three-phase strategy for moving from
quick and effective relief to long-term social recovery work. While
there have been many big natural disasters since then, none have
affected so many local communities spread over so many nations and
none have evoked the same kind of global response. A great deal of
post-tsunami recovery work was done in India and Sri Lanka, with
more than 500 international aid and humanitarian agencies involved
in Sri Lanka alone - many with little experience in long-term
community development. This book argues that international aid
agencies must work patiently to put in place meaningful
partnerships with local, community-based organisations as soon as
long-term physical and social planning becomes possible. The
authors explain that such an approach could help address some
pre-existing vulnerabilities in disaster-affected communities. They
argue that it is much easier to rebuild damaged infrastructure than
to rebuild shattered lives, and to ensure that traumatised
communities are not put under new stresses and strains, the
'fault-lines' within these communities need to be lessened.
An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a
comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are
encompassed within the growing field of sustainability. The fully
updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases
out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and
emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the
subject for the first time, it is unique in giving students from
different disciplinary backgrounds a coherent framework and set of
core principles for applying broad sustainability principles within
their own personal and professional lives. These include: working
to improve equality within and across generations; moving from
consumerism to quality of life goals; and respecting diversity in
both nature and culture. Areas of emerging importance such as the
economics of prosperity and wellbeing stand alongside core topics
including: * Energy and society * Consumption and consumerism *
Risk and resilience * Waste, water and land. Key challenges and
applications are explored through international case studies, and
each chapter includes a thematic essay drawing on diverse
literature to provide an integrated introduction to fundamental
issues. Housed on the Routledge Sustainability Hub, the book's
companion website contains a range of features to engage students
with the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. Together these
resources provide a wealth of material for learning, teaching and
researching the topic of sustainability. This textbook is an
essential companion to any sustainability course.
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and
geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social
transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe.
Colonial annexation and government were based on an
all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled political,
economic, social and ethnic relations, and required a similar
annexation and control of natural resources and nature itself.
Colonial ideologies were expressed not only in the progressive
exploitation of nature but also in the emerging discourses of
conservation. At the start of the 21st century, the conservation of
nature is of undiminished importance in post-colonial societies,
yet the legacy of colonial thinking endures. What should
conservation look like today, and what (indeed, whose) ideas should
it be based upon? Decolonizing Nature explores the influence of the
colonial legacy on contemporary conservation and on ideas about the
relationships between people, polities and nature in countries and
cultures that were once part of the British Empire. It locates the
historical development of the theory and practice of conservation -
at both the periphery and the centre - firmly within the context of
this legacy, and considers its significance today. It highlights
the present and future challenges to conservationists of
contemporary global neo-colonialism The contributors to this volume
include both academics and conservation practitioners. They provide
wide-ranging and insightful perspectives on the need for, and
practical ways to achieve new forms of informed ethical engagement
between people and nature.
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Dirty Noir (Paperback)
Martin Mulligan, Jack D McLean
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R300
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