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Imposter Syndrome
Drift
Our Last Shot
Even Better
Gone for Good
Sleep Well
Electric Moose
Curritiba
Late Nap
Discount on Psychic Readings
Die on the West Coast
Buzzhenge
Since the 'sixties anxiety about the future of mankind has led to a
number of major publications on the world's vital problems and the
relationship be tween them, the best known being the reports to the
Club of Rome. This study of the problems of providing living
accommodation for a rapid ly growing world population, taking into
account the limits that must be set to this growth, was started in
1973 at the Academy of Architecture and Erasmus University,
Rotterdam, and testifies to the same anxiety. Inhabiting the Earth
as a Finite World is the impressive result of a study of the
consequences of meeting the just demand for good accommodation for
all the earth's in habitants, worked out with the aid of a world
model and a number of case studies. The value of models, especially
very complex ones, is at present debatable. Nevertheless, they can
often cast light on complex situations. The simplified form of the
real situation, which every model in fact is, allows certain impli
cations of decisions to be discerned and taken into account in
planning. The comparison of the results of the study with the
design process is a clear example of this."
The Guarani of Paraguay have survived over four centuries of
contact with the commercial system, while keeping in tact their
traditions of leadership, religion and kinship. This concise
ethnography examines how the Guarani have adapted over time, in
concert with Paraguay's subtropical forest system. The titles in
the "Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change" series,
edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of
Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues
affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Each ethnography
builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and
allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular
issue and its impact on a culture.
Since the 'sixties anxiety about the future of mankind has led to a
number of major publications on the world's vital problems and the
relationship be tween them, the best known being the reports to the
Club of Rome. This study of the problems of providing living
accommodation for a rapid ly growing world population, taking into
account the limits that must be set to this growth, was started in
1973 at the Academy of Architecture and Erasmus University,
Rotterdam, and testifies to the same anxiety. Inhabiting the Earth
as a Finite World is the impressive result of a study of the
consequences of meeting the just demand for good accommodation for
all the earth's in habitants, worked out with the aid of a world
model and a number of case studies. The value of models, especially
very complex ones, is at present debatable. Nevertheless, they can
often cast light on complex situations. The simplified form of the
real situation, which every model in fact is, allows certain impli
cations of decisions to be discerned and taken into account in
planning. The comparison of the results of the study with the
design process is a clear example of this."
The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest way of life
from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec
has been widely-documented. Few have heard in any detail the
outcome of this campaign and what it means for the indigenous
societies' futures. This text gives equal attention to the Cree
leadership's successful strategies for addressing major social and
environmental pressures, with the forces of acculturation and
native communities' social destruction. The titles in the Cultural
Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David
Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of Cultural Survival,
Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous
and ethnic groups worldwide. Each ethnography builds on
introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing
students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and
its impact on a culture.
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Survival (CD)
Survival
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R174
Discovery Miles 1 740
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Ships in 15 - 30 working days
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Frontline voices from the worldwide movement to decolonize climate
change and revitalize a dying planet. With a deep, anticolonial and
antiracist critique and analysis of what “conservation”
currently is, Decolonize Conservation presents an alternative
vision–one already working–of the most effective and just way
to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the
voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and
local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30
percent of the globe “Protected Areas,” and other so-called
“Nature-Based Solutions” are made clear. Evidence proves
indigenous people understand and manage their environment better
than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth’s biodiversity is
in tribal territories and when indigenous peoples have secure
rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better
conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional
conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs
are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local
communities under the false claim that this is necessary for
conservation. As the editors write, “This is colonialism pure and
simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and
resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it
for the good of humanity.” The powerful collection of voices from
the groundbreaking “Our Land, Our Nature” congress takes us to
the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life
and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights
at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of
colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while
revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do
nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction.
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