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The fundamental idea of the present volume is that an engagement with the genres involved in the climate debate can be a key to understanding, developing, and perhaps even changing the debate. The book’s starting point is twofold. On the one hand, a well-known problem, the gap between the near-unanimous agreement in science about the basics of human made, or anthropogenic, climate change (ACC), and the widespread lack of accep-tance of this agreement in the public sphere. On the other, a field of study, genre research, which has been through an explosive development during the last three decades, but is still a long way from having made its full impact on research and is largely unknown beyond the academy.
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This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia's prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands.
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The essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism, and nonviolence, including Michael Allen Fox, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Bill Gay, and others. Topics include: ecological consciousness and nonviolence, environmental activism and peace activism, the environmental impact of militarism, native and indigenous peoples and peace, food ethics and nonviolence, and other topics. The book should be of interest to scholars, students, and activists who are interested in the relationship between peace movements and environmentalism.
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Ecology --- Nature --- Effect of human beings on
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"Deux ans après la parution de "L'homme peut-il s'adapter à lui-même ?", ses auteurs et d'autres scientifiques, tous connus dans leur domaine, se réunissent à nouveau. Un grand nombre d'entre eux acceptent de participer à ce nouvel ouvrage. Malgré les alertes et quelques améliorations, ils savent que le constat reste alarmant. Le vivant lui-même nous l'indique. Partout, les dates de récolte avancent ; partout, les aires de répartition d'espèces marines et continentales sont spectaculairement modifiées. Les effets du changement climatique se superposent aux dégradations directes de l'environnement, et ceci pour toutes les espèces vivantes, y compris l'espèce humaine. Allons-nous être capables de réagir à temps ? Qu'attendons-nous ? Que nous faut-il pour enfin accepter de changer ? Car pour s'adapter, ne faut-il pas, d'abord, accepter de changer ? Ces questions sont désormais centrales dans l'évolution géopolitique des sociétés humaines car déjà, du changement climatique se déclinent de nombreux conflits et souffrances, car il n'y aura pas d'agriculture durable sans respect des données écologiques et pas de santé durable autrement basée que sur l'écologie. Il nous faut trouver, de toute urgence, un nouveau système économique, beaucoup plus soutenable, ne consistant pas à gagner de l'argent en détruisant la nature ou en la surexploitant. Il nous faut aussi trouver un nouveau système social, beaucoup plus partageur, non centré sur une mince couche de la population ! " Il y a toujours eu de l'improbable dans l'histoire humaine, le futur n'est jamais joué... ". Edgard Morin, cité dès l'introduction de cet ouvrage, donne le ton. Chacun dans leur domaine, les scientifiques nous livrent ce que pourraient être les conditions d'une réelle métamorphose : celle qui nous permettrait d'accepter nos limites dans la diversité d'une planète dont nous ne sommes qu'un des éléments et d'acquérir une véritable conscience humanitaire planétaire ! L'ouvrage s'adresse à un large public, familier des sciences ou intéressé. Les enjeux qu'il aborde concernent également les décideurs et au-delà, tout citoyen conscient des priorités à venir"
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