|
Showing 1 - 25 of
158 matches in All Departments
This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light
on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and
suggests a radically new direction. Foster argues compellingly that
present approaches embody floating standards and bad faith,
trapping societies into inaction. I suspect this is a seminal piece
of work. Professor Robin Grove-White, former Chair of Greenpeace UK
We all have a nagging concern that what international corporations
and governments term 'sustainable' is not sustainable at all. John
Foster s clear and beautifully written text shows the deep flaws in
current approaches and proposes a reassessment of what true
sustainability really implies. Chris Goodall, Chair of Dynmark
International and author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life This
comprehensive and yet very readable book will go a long way towards
puncturing some of the glib environmentalisms of our moment, and
perhaps towards helping us imagine deeper and more thoroughgoing
alternatives that might actually work Bill McKibben, author of Deep
Economy and The End of Nature 'Brilliantly and ironically written,
this book shades a bright light on most foggy areas around the
concept of sustainability. Those fastidious obscure points do not
fit properly in the reassuring technical solutions to Climate
Change. Foster puts a name on those shapeless shadows that
inevitably induce the sensation of something being wrong.' Italian
Insider Sustainable development thinking got environmental issues
onto the agenda but it may now be stopping us from taking serious
action on climate change and other crucial planetary issues.
Sustainable development s attempted deal between present and future
will always collapse under the pressure of now because the needs of
the present always win out. Inevitably, this means movable targets
and action that will always fall short of what we need. Ultimately,
sustainable development is the pursuit of a mirage, the politics of
never getting there. To escape the illusion, we must break through
to a new way of understanding sustainability by focusing on the
deep needs of the present, not slippery obligations to the future.
Rising to the carbon challenge now, not trying to micro-manage the
longer term. Looking to the science for orders of magnitude and
direction, not a gameplan. Harnessing the short-term dynamics of
capitalism to the cause of learning our way forward. This book
outlines an alternative to the mainstream and offers the kind of
bold new thinking on energy usage, governance, education and the
role of enterprise that we need to win the coming war on climate
change.
Emphasizing the impact of air toxins and contaminants on human
health, this Second Edition examines the latest research from the
epidemiology to the cellular mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary
responses to air pollution. This guide offers chapters that address
the basic biology, techniques, and clinical practices used to
monitor and assess acute and chronic pollutant responses; the
effects of specific air toxins and contaminants on various
populations chronically exposed to these compounds; and the complex
issues associated with translating science to public health policy.
This Second Edition offers a current and timely review of the
effects of ambient air pollution on the human cardiopulmonary
system provides new chapters on particulate matter (PM) air
pollution, including particulate dosimetry of the respiratory
system, genetic factors in the cardiopulmonary response to PM,
PM-induced airway remodeling, and combustion emissions and their
relation to cancer furnishes sections by chapter contributors with
in-depth expertise in various areas of indoor and outdoor air
pollution research maintains a balance between traditional topics
and the review of current information showcasing the growing
interest in the neuronal and cardiovascular effects that result
from the exposure of human populations to PM air pollution crosses
several scientific disciplines including epidemiology, toxicology,
physiology, and public health presents the evolution of federal
legislation and standards for air pollution emissions including the
scientific rationale for these regulations
This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical and
applied research on women's life histories. The authors fulfill two
needs: they provide a collection of essays that grapple with
controversial issues in the study of life history, and they present
many narratives from women of color, the majority collected and
interpreted by women of color. The individual chapters offer a
variety of voices linked by a philosophical and political
orientation that places women of color at the center of scholarly
inquiry rather than at the periphery. Ultimately, readers find in
this text innovative ways of reconceptualizing the complexities of
women's lives.
Emphasizing the impact of air toxins and contaminants on human
health, this Second Edition examines the latest research from the
epidemiology to the cellular mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary
responses to air pollution. This guide offers chapters that address
the basic biology, techniques, and clinical practices used to
monitor and assess acute and chronic pollutant responses; the
effects of specific air toxins and contaminants on various
populations chronically exposed to these compounds; and the complex
issues associated with translating science to public health policy.
The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a
comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research
across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading
and emerging scholars, the Handbook provides both doctrinal and
theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. It
critiques existing law from a variety of normative positions, with
several chapters identifying foundational flaws that open up space
for radical rethinking. Many authors work directly in the field,
and their contributions demonstrate how scholarship and practice
can mutually inform each other. Contributions assess a wide range
of international legal instruments relevant to refugee protection,
including from international human rights law, international
humanitarian law, international migration law, the law of the sea,
and international and transnational criminal law. Geographically,
contributors examine regional and domestic laws and practices from
around the world, with 10 chapters focused on specific regions.
This Handbook provides an account, as well as a critique, of the
status quo, and in so doing it sets the agenda for future academic
research in international refugee law.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|