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L'homme et la Terre
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ISBN: 9791096562053 Year: 2017 Publisher: La Murette (Isère) : RN éditions,

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Le philosophe L. Klages (1872-1956), précurseur de l'écologie allemande, prophétise dans ce bref manifeste paru en 1913 et redécouvert dans les années 1980 l'exploitation à outrance des ressources naturelles de la planète, la liquidation des peuples aborigènes, l'étalement urbain, les destructions environnementales. ©Electre 2017


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Creating an ecological society
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ISBN: 1583676325 9781583676318 1583676317 9781583676325 9781583676295 1583676295 9781583676301 1583676309 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York

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Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. Capitalism’s imperative—to make profit at all costs and expand without end—is destabilizing Earth’s climate, while increasing human misery and inequality on a planetary scale. Already, hundreds of millions of people are facing poverty in the midst of untold wealth, perpetual war, growing racism, and gender oppression. The need to organize for social and environmental reforms has never been greater. But crucial as reforms are, they cannot solve our intertwined ecological and social crises. Creating an Ecological Society reveals an overwhelmingly simple truth: Fighting for reforms is vital, but revolution is essential. Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. Their book shows that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. And possible—not one moment too soon—for society to change fundamentally and be brought into harmony with nature.


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Design for life : creating meaning in a distracted world
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ISBN: 9781138232464 1138232467 9781138232471 1138232475 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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“Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today’s moral and environmental crises. The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress, growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life – one that is both destructive and self-reinforcing. Based on over twenty-five years of scholarship and creative practice, he demonstrates the vital importance of solitude, contemplation, inner growth and the present moment in developing a different course – one that looks squarely at our current, precarious situation while offering a positive, hopeful way forward – a way that is compassionate, context-based, human scale, ethically motivated and critically creative. Design for Life is an intensely original contribution that will be essential reading for design practitioners and students. Written in a clear, accessible style, it will also appeal to a broader readership, especially anyone who is concerned with contemporary society’s rising inequalities and environmental failings and is looking for a more constructive, balanced and thoughtful direction.” – provided by the publisher

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Design --- Social ecology --- Philosophy


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The social ecology of border landscapes
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ISBN: 1783086718 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.


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Supercommunity : diabolical togetherness beyond contemporary art
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ISBN: 1786633590 9781786633590 9781786633583 1786633582 Year: 2017 Publisher: London New York Verso

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Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present. Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. --From publisher description.


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The Political Ecology of Oil and Gas Activities in the Nigerian Aquatic Ecosystem
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ISBN: 0128096284 0128093994 9780128096284 9780128093993 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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Mapping environmental sustainability
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ISBN: 1447331591 1447331583 1447335317 1447331575 9781447335313 9781447331582 9781447335320 1447335325 9781447331575 9781447331599 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bristol

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Mapping Environmental Sustainability explains the development of visual mapping techniques with practical case studies that describe their application in environmental sustainability projects, from working with farmers and their networks to using visual mapping with indigenous communities and managing coastal environments.


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De la contre-culture à la loi du marché : comment le bio et la santé naturelle sont entrés dans notre quotidien
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ISBN: 2916842551 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris, France : TempsPrésent,

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À nous la ville! : Traité de municipalisme
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ISBN: 9782897193201 2897193204 Year: 2017 Publisher: Montréal (Québec): Écosociété,

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Les villes peuvent-elles changer le monde ? Considérées comme les espaces où se joueront en grande partie les luttes politiques du XXIe siècle, les villes tardent pourtant à susciter l’attention qu’elles méritent dans les cercles progressistes. Pour Jonathan Durand Folco, la gauche doit urgemment investir cet espace politique qui est au centre des enjeux sociaux, économiques et écologiques du XXIe siècle et qui possède un potentiel de transformation inédit.Prenant appui sur de solides bases théoriques, nourri des expériences d’ici et d’ailleurs, l’auteur expose les contours d’une nouvelle stratégie politique : le municipalisme. Il montre que la ville est au cœur des contradictions du capitalisme avancé, qu’une tension de plus en plus forte s’exprime entre le développement de la « ville néolibérale » et les revendications du « droit à la ville », et que la question écologique, la spéculation immobilière et la défense des communs sont au centre des mobilisations citoyennes.Cherchant à dépasser le clivage ville/région et à surmonter les écueils posés par les stratégies de transformation sociale « par le haut » ou « par le bas », Jonathan Durand Folco donne des pistes pour s’organiser et passer à l’action. Comment penser le front municipal ? Comment articuler les échelles locale, nationale et internationale dans la perspective d’une République sociale vue comme Commune des communes ? À quels problèmes organisationnels faisons-nous face ? Cela passerait-il par la création d’un Réseau d’action municipale ? Et selon quelles valeurs et quels principes organisationnels ? Autant de questions auxquelles tente de répondre l’auteur pour réhabiliter la municipalité comme espace politique et vecteur de transformation sociale.


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Creating an ecological society : toward a revolutionary transformation
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ISBN: 9781583676295 1583676295 9781583676301 1583676309 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Monthly Review Press,

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Aiming squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Magdoff and Williams provide accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. They show that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. And possible--not one moment too soon--for society to change fundamentally and be brought into harmony with nature. --From publisher description.

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