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The anthropocene : a multidisciplinary approach
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ISBN: 9781509534609 9781509534593 1509534598 1509534601 150953461X Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity,

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"An authoritative, multidisciplinary introduction to this complex and contested concept"-- Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene ? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action


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Shepherding nature : the challenge of conservation reliance
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ISBN: 1108377890 1108389910 1108386318 9781108421829 1108434339 1108421822 9781108434331 9781108377898 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Globally, more and more species are at risk of extinction as the environment and climate change. Many of these species require long-term management to persist - they are conservation-reliant. The magnitude of this challenge requires a rethinking of how conservation priorities are determined and a broader societal commitment to conservation. Choices need to be made about which species will be conserved, for how long, and by whom. This volume uses case studies and essays by conservation practitioners from throughout the world to explore what conservation reliance is and what it means for endangered-species management. Chapters consider threats to species and how they are addressed, legal frameworks for protecting endangered species, societal contexts and conflicts over conservation goals, and how including conservation reliance can strengthen methods for prioritizing species for conservation. The book concludes by discussing how shepherding nature requires an evaluation of societal values and ethics.


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Dictionnaire critique de l'Anthropocène
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ISBN: 9782271124272 2271124271 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : CNRS Éditions,

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Si les changements environnementaux liés à l’humanité ne font aucun doute, leur ampleur et leurs conséquences ne sont pas si faciles à évaluer. Pour le savant, il s’agit d’établir les liens de causalité et les impacts avec le plus de précision possible, puis de poser un diagnostic. Le présent dictionnaire s’appuie sur le concept récent d’« anthropocène », qui a le mérite, qu’on l’approuve ou non, de relancer la réflexion sur les rapports entre nature et société, entre constat scientifique et action politique, à travers une approche spatiale et territoriale. Procédant de façon critique, et fruit d’une démarche collective, cette vaste entreprise éditoriale se fonde sur une pratique de terrain, attentive aux détails et méfiante à l’égard des discours pré-établis. Parmi les 330 notices, plusieurs thèmes sont au cœur des débats contemporains (biodiversité, changement climatique…), d’autres se réfèrent à des courants de pensée (écoféminisme, transhumanisme…). Les concepts mobilisés abordent des questions politiques (capitalocène, justice environnementale…), philosophiques (catastrophes, Gaïa…), ou épistémologiques (finitude, population…). Des notions classiques sont réinterrogées (nature, ressource…), tandis que des concepts sont précisés (biosphère, écosystème…). D’autres notices discutent de mécanismes environnementaux (érosion, tsunami…), de pratiques récentes (agroécologie, ville durable…), de phénomènes territorialisés (déforestation, désertification…) ou d’artefacts (aéroport, autoroute…). Certaines examinent des lieux emblématiques (Amazonie, Fukushima…). D’autres, enfin, offrent un regard original sur l’anthropocène, sa faune (chien, ours…), ses mutations socio-économiques, institutionnelles ou politiques (biopiraterie, ZAD…). Un dictionnaire de référence sur un concept devenu incontournable


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L'invention du colonialisme vert : / : pour en finir avec le mythe de l'Éden Africain.
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ISBN: 9782081504394 2081504391 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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"L'histoire débute à la fin du XIXe siècle. Persuadés d'avoir retrouvé en Afrique la nature disparue en Europe, les colons créent les premiers parcs naturels du continent, du Congo jusqu'en Afrique du Sud. Puis, au lendemain des années 1960, les anciens administrateurs coloniaux se reconvertissent en experts internationaux. Il faudrait sauver l'Eden ! Mais cette Afrique n'existe pas. Il n'y a pas de vastes territoires vierges de présence humaine, et arpentés seulement par ces hordes d'animaux sauvages qui font le bonheur des safaris touristiques. Il y a des peuples, qui circulent depuis des millénaires, ont fait souche, sont devenus éleveurs ici ou cultivateurs là. Pourtant, ces hommes, ces femmes et enfants seront - et sont encore - expulsés par milliers des parcs naturels africains, où ils subissent aujourd'hui la violence quotidienne des éco-gardes soutenus par l'Unesco, le WWF et tant d'autres ONG. Convoquant archives inédites et récits de vie, ce livre met au jour les contradictions des pays développés qui détruisent chez eux la nature qu'ils croient protéger là-bas, prolongeant, avec une stupéfiante bonne conscience, le schème d'un nouveau genre de colonialisme : le colonialisme vert."


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La pandémie, l'anthropocène et le bien commun
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ISBN: 9791020909190 Year: 2020 Publisher: [Paris] : éditions Les Liens qui libèrent,

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L'Anthropocène, ce n'est pas seulement le dérèglement climatique, c'est aussi l'âge des pandémies à répétition : telle est la vérité nouvelle livrée par la crise du Covid-19. Et tel est aussi le point de départ de cet ouvrage. Dès lors, penser l'Anthropocène force à entrer dans un univers où crises climatiques et crises sanitaires sont un nouvel ordre permanent. L'Anthropocène, en bousculant les règles du jeu, bouscule aussi l'horizon et les manières de penser...


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Wildlife as property owners : a new conception of animal rights
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ISBN: 9780226571225 9780226571362 022657122X 022657136X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press

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"Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. If excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. This book advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the option to own land just as humans do"--


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Sustainability and the rights of nature in practice
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ISBN: 9781138584518 1138584517 0429000383 0429505957 0429000391 Year: 2020 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press,

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Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017). The first book laid out the international precursors for the Rights of Nature doctrine and described the changes required to create a Rights of Nature framework that supports Nature in a sustainable relationship rather than as an exploited resource. This follow-up work provides practitioners from diverse cultures around the world an opportunity to describe their own projects, successes, and challenges in moving toward a legal personhood for Nature. It includes contributions from Nepal, New Zealand, Canadian Native American cultures, Kiribati, the United States and Scotland, amongst others, by practitioners working on projects that can be integrated into a Rights of Nature framework. The authors also tackle required changes to shift the paradigm, such as thinking of Nature in a sacred manner, reorienting Nature⁰́₉s rights and human rights, the conceptualization of restoration, and the removal of large-scale energy infrastructure. Curated by experts in the field, this expansive collection of papers will prove invaluable to a wide array of policymakers and administrators, environmental advocates and conservation groups, tribal land managers, and communities seeking to create or maintain a sustainable relationship with Nature. Features: Addresses existing projects that are successfully implementing a Rights of Nature legal framework, including the difference it makes in practice Presents the voices of practitioners not often recognized who are working in innovative ways towards sustainability and the need to grant a voice to Nature in human decision-making Explores new ideas from the insights of a diverse range of cultures on how to grant legal personhood to Nature, restrain damaging human activity, create true sustainability, and glimpse how a Rights of Nature paradigm can work in different societies Details the potential pitfalls to Rights of Nature governance and land use decisions from people doing the work, as well as their solutions Discusses the basic human needs for shelter, food, and community in entirely new ways: in relationship with Nature, rather than in conquest of it


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Retour sur Terre : 35 propositions
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ISBN: 9782130826538 2130826539 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Sept chercheurs proposent de refonder notre société autour d’une série de mesures économiques et institutionnelles fondées sur des travaux au long cours et une vision étayée de l’avenir. Ils posent dans cet ouvrage les bases d’un programme politique ambitieux pour une nouvelle ère.

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