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As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel
overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a
misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature
as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But the
living world is not a cathedral on fire - if it were, the battle
would already be lost. The living world is itself a fire that
reconstitutes itself continuously and creates countless forms of
life as soon as we leave it the space and time to do so. So the
problem we face today is not to stop the fire - rather, it is how
to defend and rekindle the embers of life that are all around us.
Drawing lessons from conservationist initiatives aimed at allowing
the natural forces of forests to take over again through a process
of free evolution, and from agro-ecological farming initiatives
which make lands hospitable for wildlife, Baptiste Morizot shows
how specific actions can release the prodigality of life, its
jungle-like power to regenerate itself. Actions like these are
possible because the power of the living world lies in its
abundance and creativity: the biosphere is a living fire that
covers the earth, and it can always start up again if we know how
to defend and kindle its embers.
From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the
French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us
to develop a different relationship to nature: to become detectives
of nature and to follow the footprints of the many wonderful and
extraordinary animals with which we share the Earth. By deciphering
and interpreting an animal's footprints and other signs, we
gradually discover not only which animal it is, but the animal's
motives too. Through this kind of 'philosophical tracking', we come
to see the world from the animal's point of view, to learn to live
in this world from the perspective of another species. We begin to
let go of our anthropocentric point of view and to recapture the
kind of perspective that our ancestors once had when they had no
choice but to adopt an animal point of view if they wanted to
survive. In short, by following animal trails, we learn how to pay
increased attention to the living world around us and how to
cohabit this world with others, thereby enriching our understanding
of other species, of the world we share with them and of ourselves.
The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species
that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility - that
is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have
grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material
backdrop for the drama of human life: the animal world is regarded
as part of 'nature', juxtaposed to the world of human beings who
pursue their aims independently of other species. Baptiste Morizot
argues that the time has come for us to jettison this nature human
dualism and rethink our relationships with other living beings.
Animals are not part of a separate, natural world: they are
cohabitants of the Earth, with whom we share a common ancestry, the
enigma of being alive and the responsibility of living decent lives
together. By accepting our identity as living beings and
reconnecting with our own animal nature, we can begin to change our
relationships with other animals, seeing them not as inferior
lifeforms but as living creatures who have different ways of being
alive. This powerful plea for a new understanding of our
relationships with other animals will be of great interest to
anyone concerned about the ecological crisis and the future of
different species, including our own.
A curated selection of Berthe Morisot's expressive French
Impressionist paintings is reproduced here for our Berthe Morisot
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As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel
overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a
misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature
as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But the
living world is not a cathedral on fire - if it were, the battle
would already be lost. The living world is itself a fire that
reconstitutes itself continuously and creates countless forms of
life as soon as we leave it the space and time to do so. So the
problem we face today is not to stop the fire - rather, it is how
to defend and rekindle the embers of life that are all around us.
Drawing lessons from conservationist initiatives aimed at allowing
the natural forces of forests to take over again through a process
of free evolution, and from agro-ecological farming initiatives
which make lands hospitable for wildlife, Baptiste Morizot shows
how specific actions can release the prodigality of life, its
jungle-like power to regenerate itself. Actions like these are
possible because the power of the living world lies in its
abundance and creativity: the biosphere is a living fire that
covers the earth, and it can always start up again if we know how
to defend and kindle its embers.
This edited book summarizes the current state of knowledge on the
development of criminal and antisocial behavior over the life
course. It focuses mainly on the developmental perspective, which
has had a paradigmatic influence on current theoretical and
empirical works in criminology. With a multidisciplinary
perspective, the book reviews: (a) the fundamental concepts of
developmental criminology; (b) the risk factors and developmental
processes related to the most salient personal (e.g., genetics,
personality) and environmental (e.g., family, peers, school)
domains explaining the development of criminal and antisocial
behavior; (c) the developmental issues related to a number a
special themes (e.g., women criminality, street gangs) and (d) the
applied and policy implications of research in developmental
criminology. In each chapter, prominent researchers from different
disciplines such as criminology and psychology summarize the state
of knowledge on a specific topic, identify the shortcomings of past
research, offer recommendations for future research needs.
From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the
French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us
to develop a different relationship to nature: to become detectives
of nature and to follow the footprints of the many wonderful and
extraordinary animals with which we share the Earth. By deciphering
and interpreting an animal's footprints and other signs, we
gradually discover not only which animal it is, but the animal's
motives too. Through this kind of 'philosophical tracking', we come
to see the world from the animal's point of view, to learn to live
in this world from the perspective of another species. We begin to
let go of our anthropocentric point of view and to recapture the
kind of perspective that our ancestors once had when they had no
choice but to adopt an animal point of view if they wanted to
survive. In short, by following animal trails, we learn how to pay
increased attention to the living world around us and how to
cohabit this world with others, thereby enriching our understanding
of other species, of the world we share with them and of ourselves.
The NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Mineral Resource Base of the
Southern Caucasus and Systems for its Management in the XXI
Century" was held in Tbilisi on April 3-6, 2001. The workshop was
financed by the NATO Science Programme and financially supported by
the Open Society - Georgia Foundation. By the end of the XX century
the new states of the Southern Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Georgia) found themselves in the lowest phase of a severe
structural crisis. Belonging to the same geopolitical space and
having the common economic history during the XIX and XX centuries,
these countries will be able to overcome this crisis and to
integrate into the world community only step-by-step, exploiting
their resource bases and developing competitive branches of
industries. Moreover, in our opinion, such conception is the only
alternative to the spontaneous economical chaos. Solution of this
problem seems to be impossible without close international
collaboration. From this point of view, the idea of regional
alliances where regional actors would be linked by a general,
non-contradictory macroeconomic model seems to be the only
possibility for sustainable development. Creation of The Southern
Caucasus Alliance (SCA) where Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Turkey would find their place could be possible only in case if the
economic reality and economic interests would weigh down
nationalistic doctrines of political isolationism.
The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species
that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility - that
is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have
grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material
backdrop for the drama of human life: the animal world is regarded
as part of 'nature', juxtaposed to the world of human beings who
pursue their aims independently of other species. Baptiste Morizot
argues that the time has come for us to jettison this nature human
dualism and rethink our relationships with other living beings.
Animals are not part of a separate, natural world: they are
cohabitants of the Earth, with whom we share a common ancestry, the
enigma of being alive and the responsibility of living decent lives
together. By accepting our identity as living beings and
reconnecting with our own animal nature, we can begin to change our
relationships with other animals, seeing them not as inferior
lifeforms but as living creatures who have different ways of being
alive. This powerful plea for a new understanding of our
relationships with other animals will be of great interest to
anyone concerned about the ecological crisis and the future of
different species, including our own.
This edited book summarizes the current state of knowledge on the
development of criminal and antisocial behavior over the life
course. It focuses mainly on the developmental perspective, which
has had a paradigmatic influence on current theoretical and
empirical works in criminology. With a multidisciplinary
perspective, the book reviews: (a) the fundamental concepts of
developmental criminology; (b) the risk factors and developmental
processes related to the most salient personal (e.g., genetics,
personality) and environmental (e.g., family, peers, school)
domains explaining the development of criminal and antisocial
behavior; (c) the developmental issues related to a number a
special themes (e.g., women criminality, street gangs) and (d) the
applied and policy implications of research in developmental
criminology. In each chapter, prominent researchers from different
disciplines such as criminology and psychology summarize the state
of knowledge on a specific topic, identify the shortcomings of past
research, offer recommendations for future research needs.
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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Mineral Resource Base of the
Southern Caucasus and Systems for its Management in the XXI
Century" was held in Tbilisi on April 3-6, 2001. The workshop was
financed by the NATO Science Programme and financially supported by
the Open Society - Georgia Foundation. By the end of the XX century
the new states of the Southern Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Georgia) found themselves in the lowest phase of a severe
structural crisis. Belonging to the same geopolitical space and
having the common economic history during the XIX and XX centuries,
these countries will be able to overcome this crisis and to
integrate into the world community only step-by-step, exploiting
their resource bases and developing competitive branches of
industries. Moreover, in our opinion, such conception is the only
alternative to the spontaneous economical chaos. Solution of this
problem seems to be impossible without close international
collaboration. From this point of view, the idea of regional
alliances where regional actors would be linked by a general,
non-contradictory macroeconomic model seems to be the only
possibility for sustainable development. Creation of The Southern
Caucasus Alliance (SCA) where Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Turkey would find their place could be possible only in case if the
economic reality and economic interests would weigh down
nationalistic doctrines of political isolationism.
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