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What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in "artificial" intelligence. But as it approaches, it also gets weirder: rather than a friend or helpmate, AI increasingly appears as something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us. At the same time, we're only just becoming aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, even if we've failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others--the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we've built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics, to live better and more equitably with one another and the non-human world?

Cognitive psychology --- Philosophy of science --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE--PHILOSOPHY --- SCIENCE --- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY --- HUMAN ECOLOGY --- PSYCHOLOGY --- INTELLECT

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- NATURE--EFFECT OF HUMAN BEINGS ON --- HUMAN ECOLOGY --- CLIMATIC CHANGES--POLITICAL ASPECTS

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Focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. This book provides a multi-lateral forum for cooperation, information exchange, and dialogue among the environmental, development, foreign and security policy communities within the Mediterranean Region.

Desertification --- Désertification --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Desertification -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses. --- Security. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Environmental Sciences --- Security --- Aridization of land --- Desertization --- Environment. --- Political science. --- Landscape ecology. --- Environmental management. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Human geography. --- Environmental Management. --- Political Science. --- Environment, general. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Human Geography. --- Climatology --- Deserts --- Environmental sciences. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Human ecology --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Ecology --- Environmental science --- Science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics

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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-environcide-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadors exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the Indian Wars of the American West and the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.

WAR--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS --- ARMED FORCES--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS --- War --- Military history --- Armed Forces --- Naval history --- Military art and science --- Human ecology --- Natural resources --- Deforestation. --- Environmental policy. --- Global environmental change. --- Human ecology. --- Environmental aspects. --- History --- History. --- Management --- Management. --- Guerre --- Écologie humaine --- Environnement --- Ressources naturelles --- Déboisement --- Changement global (Environnement) --- Histoire --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Politique gouvernementale --- Gestion

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In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphery to a region of intensifying political and academic interest and of conflicting interests. This collection of texts examines in particular how national and international politics and law impact on Arctic governance, communications and indigenous rights; and in parallel, explores perceptions and experiences of the North in literature and the dramatic arts. The book thus offers a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue, in order to highlight tha

Arctic peoples -- Congresses. --- Environmental policy -- Arctic regions -- Congresses. --- Environmental protection -- Arctic regions -- Congresses. --- Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- Congresses. --- Indigenous peoples -- Arctic regions -- Congresses. --- Geography --- International Law --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Law, Politics & Government --- Treaties, International --- Discovery & Exploration