Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Discourse about water and power in the modern era have largely focused on human power over water: who gets to own and control a limited resource that has incredible economic potential. As a result, discussion of water, even in the humanities, has traditionally focused on fresh water for human use. Today, climate extremes from drought to flooding are forcing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse. This volume exemplifies how interdisciplinary cultural approaches can transform water conversations. The manuscript is organized into three emergent themes in water studies: agency of water, fluid identities, and cultural currencies. The first section deals with the properties of water and the ways in which water challenges human plans for control. The second section explores how water (or lack of it) shapes human collective and individual identities. The third engages notions of value and circulation to think about how water has been managed and employed for local, national, and international gains. Contributions come from preeminent as well as emerging voices across humanities fields including history, art history, philosophy, and science and technology studies. Part of a bigger goal for shaping the environmental humanities, the book broadens the concept of water to include not just water in oceans and rivers but also in pipes, ice floes, marshes, bottles, dams, and more. Each piece shows how humanities scholarship has world-changing potential to achieve more just water futures.

Nature / Ecology --- Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply --- Nature / Natural Resources --- Nature

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Indonesia's wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to develop environmental awareness and avert vast environmental destruction, not only in Indonesia, but also in the Global South more generally. Based on in-depth studies conducted in the cities of Yogyakarta and Surabaya, complemented with surveys of students in secondary schools, Environmental Education in Indonesia examines educational curricula, pedagogy and "green" activities to reveal what is currently being done in schools to educate children about the environment. The book investigates the shortcomings in environment education, including underqualified teachers, the civil service mentality, the still-pervasive chalk-and-talk pedagogy and the effect of the examination system. It also analyses the role of local government in supporting (or not) environmental education, and the contribution of environmental NGOs. The book establishes that young people are not currently being exposed to effective environmental education, and the authors propose that the best and most culturally appropriate way forward in Indonesia is to frame pro-environment behaviour and responsibility as a form of citizenship, and specifically that environmental education should be taught as a separate subject. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of contemporary Indonesia and Southeast Asia, education for sustainability and environmental education, as well as sustainability and sustainable development more generally.

Environmental education --- EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives --- EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science --- NATURE / Ecology --- Education --- Environmental Sciences --- Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Settler Ecologiesreveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations.

Human ecology --- Settler colonialism --- Wildlife conservation --- Environmental aspects --- Laikipia County (Kenya) --- Kenya --- Environmental conditions. --- Colonization. --- NATURE / Ecology. --- Colonization --- Ecology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world. Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked to sustainability goals through the complex adaptive dynamics of social-environmental systems, how committed people can use governance processes to alter those dynamics, and how successful interventions can be shaped through collaborations among researchers and practitioners on the ground. The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable resource for anyone working in this fast-growing field, Pursuing Sustainability also features case studies, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. Provides a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action. Draws on the latest cutting-edge science and practices. Serves as the ideal companion text to more narrowly focused courses. Utilizes interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives. Illustrates concepts with a core set of case studies used throughout the book. Written by world authorities on sustainability. An online illustration package is available to professors"--

Sustainability --- Sustainable development --- Environmental responsibility --- Sustainability. --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental responsibility. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- NATURE / Ecology. --- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change that involve adapting to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.

Climatic changes. --- Climate change mitigation. --- Climatic changes --- Global temperature changes. --- Global warming. --- NATURE / Ecology --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) --- Effect of human beings on.