Books: 'Knowledge society environment'

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Irwin, Alan. Sociology and the environment: A critical introduction to society, nature, and knowledge. Cambridge, UK : Polity Press: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2001.

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International Conference Proceedings "ASEAN Knowledge Networks for the Economy, Society, Culture, and Environment Stability" (2013 Mahāwitthayālai Rātchaphat Chīang Rāi). International conference proceedings, ASEAN Knowledge Networks for the Economy, Society, Culture, and Environment Stability. Chiangrai, Thailand: Chiangrai Rajabhat University, 2013.

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Khittasangka, Makha, and Aung. Toward knowledge networks for the economy, society, culture, environment and health for the GMS and Asia-Pacific. Edited by Manop Pasitwilaitham. Chiang Rai, Thailand: Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, 2010.

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Czerniakowska, Małgorzata. Związki króla Stanisława Augusta i uczonych z jego kręgu z Royal Society w Londynie =: Connections of King Stanislas Augustus and scientists from his environment with the Royal Society in London. Gdańsk: Oddz. Gdański Tow. Przyjaciół Książki, 2000.

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1954-, Reuther R., ed. Metals in society and in the environment: A critical review of current knowledge on fluxes, speciation, bioavailability and risk for adverse effects of copper, chromium, nickel and zinc. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004.

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Inter-University Cooperation Program "Toward Knowledge Networks for the Economy, Society, Culture, Environment and Health for the GMS and Asia-Pacific": 6-10 September 2009, Kohinoor Continental, Mumbai, India. [Chiang Rai, Thailand]: Chiangrai Rajabhat University, 2009.

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Justus, Gallati, ed. Environmental literacy in science and society: From knowledge to decisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Ismailov, Nariman, Samira Nadzhafova, and Aygyun Gasymova. Bioecosystem complexes for the solution of environmental, industrial and social problems (on the example of Azerbaijan). ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1043239.

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A key objective of the modern development of society is the observance of ecological and socio-economic unity in human life and comprehensive improvement of environment and quality of life should be considered in close connection with the quality of the natural landscape. The formation of scientific understanding of the unity of society and nature is driven by the need for practical implementation of such unity. This defines the focus of this monograph. Given the overall assessment of the current state of the environment in Azerbaijan, considers the scenarios for the future development of the area. The prospects of the use of biotechnology in integrated environmental protection. In the framework of the above to address complex social, environmental and production problems in Azerbaijan developed scientific basis of integrated system of industrial farms — biclusters with a closed production cycle through effective utilization of regional biological resources, whose interactions and relationships take on the character of vzaimodeistvie components for obtaining focused final result with high practical importance. Microbiological, biochemical and technological processes are the basis of all development of biotechnology. Presents the development will help strengthen the ties between science and production, establishing mechanisms to conduct applied research in the field of innovation and creation of knowledge-based technologies in solving current and future environmental problems in Azerbaijan. We offer innovative ideas distinguishes the potential need for their materialization into new products, technologies and services, including the widespread use of digital technologies to design dynamic digital environmental map in space and in time. For students, scientific and engineering-technical workers, students and specializing in environmental technology, environmental protection.

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Neuman, Delia. Learning in Information-Rich Environments: I-LEARN and the Construction of Knowledge in the 21st Century. Boston, MA: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011.

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Drucker, Peter F. The Drucker lectures: Essential lessons on management, society, and economy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.

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Tartaglia, Andrea, Roberto Bolici, and Matteo Gambaro, eds. La ricerca tra innovazione, creatività e progetto / Research among Innovation, Creativity and Design. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-160-7.

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In the current socio-cultural scenario, the implementation of the university reform aimed at boosting third-level education calls for meditation within the discipline of Architectural Technology (ICAR 12). This review must address the research topics and academic profiles of PhD courses in the Technological Area, also in terms of fostering actions consistent with European strategic lines for the promotion of a knowledge society. Research, innovation, creativity and design are the keywords of this scenario that PhD students and lecturers must bear in mind when considering three fields of study: environmental design and landscape, building production and construction and works and services strategic for the community. This book "Research among innovation, creativity and design" develops the topics addressed during the VII OSDOTTA workshop (the network of PhD courses in the field of Architectural Technology) held at the Mantua campus of Milan Polytechnic on 15th-16th-17th September 2011.

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Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad: Hacia un desarrollo sostenible en la era de la globalización = Science, tec[h]nology and society : towards sustainable development in the globalization era. La Habana: Editorial Científico-Técnica, 2003.

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Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge Systems (Knowledge & Society). JAI Press, 1998.

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Irwin, Alan. Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge. Polity Press, 2001.

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Irwin, Alan. Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge. Polity Press, 2001.

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Irwin, Alan. Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge. Polity Press, 2013.

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Irwin, Alan. Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge. Polity Press, 2013.

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Research in Science and Technology Studies: Gender and Work (Knowledge & Society). JAI Press, 2000.

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Jarvis, Holford. AGE OF LEARNING: EDUCATION & THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY (Creating Success). Routledge, 2000.

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The Age of Learning: Education and the Knowledge Society (Creating Success). Routledge, 2001.

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Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Landner, Lars, and Rudolf Reuther. Metals in Society and in the Environment: A Critical Review of Current Knowledge on Fluxes, Speciation, Bioavailability and Risk for Adverse Effects of ... Nickel and Zinc (Environmental Pollution). Springer, 2004.

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Landner, Lars, and Rudolf Reuther. Metals in Society and in the Environment: A Critical Review of Current Knowledge on Fluxes, Speciation, Bioavailability and Risk for Adverse Effects of ... Nickel and Zinc (Environmental Pollution). Springer, 2005.

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Bruckmeier, Karl, and Hilary Tovey. Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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1952-, Bruckmeier Karl, and Tovey Hilary, eds. Rural sustainable development in the knowledge society. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co., 2008.

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1963-, Bolisani Ettore, ed. Building the knowledge society on the Internet: Sharing and exchanging knowledge in networked environments. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2008.

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Venturelli, Shalini. Global Knowledge Society and Information Technology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.204.

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The Global Knowledge Society is a broad interdisciplinary effort that emerged in the last decade of the twentieth century to probe the socioeconomic, technological, and geopolitical dimensions of knowledge production, growth, diffusion, and exploitation, in terms of impact on the development of societies worldwide. As a field of inquiry, the Global Knowledge Society encompasses all areas of social science including international relations, international communication, information technology, international development, and economics, as well as across the physical sciences and humanities. It also aims to fill a historical void in traditional social science—from economics and political science to international affairs and development studies—for explaining structural and environmental differences in societal rates of knowledge generation, application and adoption. A number of models on knowledge development have been explored in the literature, including the “Distributed Information Networks” approach, the “Technological Diffusion” approach, the “Genius Theory of Invention” approach, the “Creative and Proprietary Incentives” approach, and the “Cultural Legacy” approach. Models outside the social sciences and humanities also offer some rich possibilities, such as those under the label of “Idea Evolution.” Several of the models suggest the need for rethinking the mystery of persistent societal differences in knowledge growth within and between countries. Future research on knowledge society should consider bringing together researchers and policymakers from many disciplines across the natural and social sciences to review the substance of the field’s comparative methods and findings using interdisciplinary frameworks and complex factors.

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Tesluk, Jordan, Judy Illes, and Ralph Matthews. First Nations and environmental neuroethics: Perspectives on brain health from a world of change. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0023.

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Amid changing environmental conditions and persisting health deficits, First Nations people in Canada face mounting risks to their neurological and mental health. While the influence of environmental change on the human brain poses concerns to all members of society, the ethical implications of such impacts are different for indigenous peoples who have close relationships with the environment. First Nations make extensive use of Western systems of medicine and environmental sciences. However, persistent gaps between traditional systems of knowledge and Western science contribute to the marginalization of First Nations under current healthcare and environmental management systems, and create challenges for researchers who seek to work with and support First Nations people. This chapter addresses the role that neuroethics can play in bringing indigenous knowledge and Western institutions of science together in protecting the health of the brain.

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Pettit, Philip. Ground Zero. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190904913.003.0004.

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Ground zero is the condition in the society addressed—“Erewhon,” in a familiar acronym of “nowhere”—before the advent of moral or ethical concepts and practices. In this society, we, the inhabitants, use natural language to make reports to one another on ourselves and our environment and, being want a reputation for telling the truth, we generate a norm of careful and truthful reporting. But reports may be excused in two epistemic ways: by invoking a misleading or a changed environment. And it is striking that, while we may report on our attitudes—our individual, internal environments—we do not avow or pledge them. An avowal would foreclose the misleading-mind excuse, as we human beings might be expected to be able to do in view of our alleged capacity for self-knowledge. And a pledge would foreclose the changed-mind excuse as well, as might seem to be possible in view of our alleged capacity for self-control.

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Sauer, Beverly. The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society). Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

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Sauer, Beverly. The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society). Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

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Grant, Allen, Delia Neuman, Stacey Greenwell, Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, and Vera J. Lee. Learning in Information-Rich Environments: I-LEARN and the Construction of Knowledge from Information. Springer, 2019.

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Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Neuman, Delia. Learning in Information-Rich Environments: I-LEARN and the Construction of Knowledge in the 21st Century. Springer, 2014.

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Sharma, Mukul. Dalit Environmental Visions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477562.003.0002.

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This chapter attempts to broaden the definitions of environmental thought by adopting a Dalit lens. It conceptualizes environmental thought as ideas and actions encompassing the relationship between humans and nature, including the social norms that govern this conjunction. In contrast to the model of Sulabh, Dalits question some of the major premises of eco-casteism—caste system as an ecological model, laws of nature as guiding principles of society, uniqueness and specificity of an ecosystem, and sanctity of a supposedly given, natural order—by underlying their environmental knowledge and experiences. Issues of labour, space, past, memory, sacrifice, bondage, and differential access to nature and its resources, provide a distinguishing focus to Dalit ecological insights.

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J, Courchene Thomas, and John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy., eds. Policy frameworks for a knowledge economy. Kingston, Ont: John Deutsch Institute for Economic Policy, Queen's University, 1996.

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Theiner, Georg, and Nikolaus Fogle. The “Ontological Complicity” of Habitus and Field. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801764.003.0012.

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This chapter approaches the work of the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, from the point of view of embodied, extended, and distributed cognition. The concepts that form Bourdieu’s central dyad, habitus and field, are remarkably consonant with externalist views. Habitus is a form of knowledge that is not only embodied but fundamentally environment-dependent, and field is a distributed network of cognitively active positions that serves not only as a repository of social knowledge, but also as an external template for individual schemes of perception and action. The aim of this chapter’s comparative analysis is not to merely show that Bourdieu’s concepts are compatible with cognitive and epistemological externalism. They further demonstrate that the resources of Bourdieu’s theoretical framework can prove particularly useful for developing externalist accounts of culture and society—two areas that are significantly underexplored within mainstream debates in analytic philosophy.

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Zachmann, Karin, and Sarah Ehlers, eds. Wissen und Begründen. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748903383.

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Evidence has become a key resource within our knowledge society. At the same time, during the course of the 20th century, negotiations on the validity of knowledge became a political and controversial phenomenon which has since shaped the multiple fields of science, technology, politics, medicine and society. As the diagnosis of a ‘post-factual age’ makes clear: knowledge will not be accepted in modern society per se; instead knowledge operators have to satisfy demands to give validity to their findings. But which practices should they apply for this purpose? How is the validity of knowledge negotiated in different public spheres? Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this anthology examines the dynamics of evidence practices. The authors cover examples from research in the fields of medicine, communication, the economy, science, technology and environmental studies. At the same time, they connect analysis from recent history with current phenomena. With contributions by Helena Bilandzic, Tommaso Bruni, Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn, Sascha Dickel, Kay Felder, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Christine Haßauer, Susanne Kinnebrock, Magdalena Klingler, Emilia Lehmann, Sabine Maasen, Ruth Müller, Jutta Roosen, Helmuth Trischler, Andreas Wenninger, Fabienne Will, Karin Zachmann

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Souza, Aparecida Carina Alves de, Mônica Alves de Matos Pereira, Célia Maria Adão de Oliveira Aguiar de Sousa, Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira Castelini, Patrícia Ferreira de Andrade, Andressa Silva Pereira, Allan Rocha Damasceno, et al. Caminhos Possíveis para Incluir: Educação, cultura, esporte e lazer. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-390-9.

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This collection of articles aims to weave a critical reflection on education, sport, culture, and its inclusive principles while respecting social rights and presenting inclusion as the main point. It brings forth the perspective of education against barbarism in the search for human emancipation in counterpoint to a society that kills and trivializes exclusion. It also aims to examine a patchwork of the times in which we have been living, when the tendency of capitalist society is to equal everyone, making it impossible to legitimize social rights. From this perspective, our intention was to bring relevant issues from the educational, social and political areas to the debate, in order to produce knowledge that emancipate. Thinking about Inclusion in Education, these articles express, within a broad educational context and from the perspective of an education for everyone, the realization of this conscious collection to achieve educational goals and objectives that maximize participation and minimize the barriers to learning experienced by all subjects, regardless of their physical, social, cultural, and economic characteristics. In this environment, this compilation sought to aggregate contributions from researchers in the field of education, sports, and culture which create dialogue with educational strategies that foster the construction of a true awareness and unfold in actions with a positive impact on society.

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Courchene, Thomas J. Policy Frameworks for a Knowledge Economy (John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy). Queen's University, Office of the Vice-Princi, 1997.

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Johnson, Chris, Sarah R. Anderson, Jon Dallimore, Chris Imray, Shane Winser, James Moore, and David Warrell. Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199688418.001.0001.

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Revised for its second edition to include the latest national and international guidelines, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the trip, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, it also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments. Now containing more guidance about the obligations of a clinician joining an expedition, and the ethical approach to such work, it also provides an increased emphasis on medicine in various extreme environments. With revised and additional illustrations, more colour plates, and an increased use of important algorithms, it has been updated with the support of the Royal Geographical Society, and incorporates the combined knowledge and experience of a team of experienced clinicians and expeditioners.

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Pereira, Ivonete. “Os filhos de Eva”: crianças e adolescentes pobres à sombra da delinquência e da desvalia em Florianópolis - 1900/1940. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-278-0.

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“The children of Eve”: poor children and teenagers in the shadow of delinquency and abandonment in Florianópolis – 1900-1940 This book analyzes the discourses of intellectuals, jurists, and public authorities about poor children and teenagers in Florianópolis in the first four decades of the twentieth century. In the country’s pedagogical knowledge in that century, childhood had a “natural plasticity”, therefore susceptible to molding. Thus, shaping the child and adjusting it to the ideals of a “civilized” society became the pivot of passionate discourses in State Chambers and Federal Congress, as well as in the intellectual environment. In those, poor children and adolescents became synonyms of “abandoned” and/or “perverted. The discourses ranged from defending those children and adolescents, to protecting society against them, since they also “represented” a threat to the nation’s “order and progress”. When analyzing the experiences of those children we penetrate in a world of the “pitiful” and the “dangerous”, as well as in a network of intrigues. In it not only the “minors” were subject to a project of exclusion under the aegis of differentiated inclusion, but everyone that represents “the other”, the one that does not fit the normative system which, in that moment, was regarded as “universal and absolute”.

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Oberlechner, Manfred, and Robert Schneider-Reisinger, eds. Fluidität bildet. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845289946.

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The term ‘education’ refers to the examination of subjects that are relevant to education by an individual and their environment, to the establishment of relationships and limits that occurs during that examination process and, in this respect in particular, to the question of ‘educational fluid’ on the one hand and fluidity as a characteristic of educational processes and fields on the other. If education is thought to be ‘fluid’, it cannot be used as solid ‘capital’ in a steady process of (power accumulation and) growth, as anything fluid can neither be cumulated nor added up. Does this fluidity thesis for education possibly offer us the chance of a departure from the logic of capitalisation, utilisation and growth of and through education? How can a knowledge-based society which views itself as ‘fluid’ be conceived? With contributions by Florian Dobmeier, Sebastian Engelmann, André Epp, Dominik Farrenberg, Nina Grünberger, Raffael Hiden, Juliane Noack Napoles, Manfred Oberlechner, Guido Pollak, Anke Redecker, Thomas Rucker, Robert Schneider-Reisinger, Andreas Spengler, Gabriele Sorgo, Birke Sturm

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Commission, European, ed. Choosing to grow: Knowledge, innovation and jobs in a cohesive society : report to the Spring European Council, 21st March 2003, on the Lisbon strategy of economic, social and environmental renewal. Luxembourg: European Commission, 2003.

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Martin, Gunther, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713852.001.0001.

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As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city’s independence, and today he is a primary source for her history and society in that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of the man’s life, work, and time. It gives particular weight to elucidating the setting and the contexts of his activity and some key themes that the speeches deal with. It thereby illustrates the interplay and mutual influence between the rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged. In this way the handbook is an up-to-date reference to issues and problems one encounters when approaching the speeches: it showcases the role that Demosthenes’ presentation of his world has had for our view of it and how Athenian reality in turn influenced the speeches, as it formed the backdrop to which the rhetoric had to adapt. Thirty-five experts contribute to explore and enrich our knowledge of one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greece and the masterpieces he left. Their wide range of expertise and the different scholarly traditions they represent make this book a demonstration of the richness and diversity of current Demosthenic studies.

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Niles, Daniel. Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.2.

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This chapter explores the contemporary significance of agricultural heritage, a concept in which the largely cultural and societal concerns for heritage preservation are shuffled into those related to nature conservation and the development of agriculture. Both heritage preservation and nature conservation cast mutually constitutive and relatively fixed ideas of past nature and culture into present and future. Agriculture, too, arrives heavily burdened with inherited meaning, as historically and materially it is “Exhibit A” in the powerful modern narrative of “Culture” gradually rising over “Nature.” In this context, agricultural heritage is almost automatically cast as a relic of the past ways of traditional peoples and their less efficient, less useful, pre-Modern natures. This chapter suggests instead that agricultural heritage represents one of humankind’s richest bodies of environmental experience and most successful manners of conveying knowledge through time, providing material examples of alternative knowledge of nature itself.

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Woinarski, John, Andrew Burbidge, and Peter Harrison. Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. CSIRO Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643108745.

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The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia. This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals, including those of external territories and territorial seas. For all the mammal taxa (about 300 species and subspecies) considered Extinct, Threatened, Near Threatened or Data Deficient, the size and trend of their population is presented along with information on geographic range and trend, and relevant biological and ecological data. The book also presents the current conservation status of each taxon under Australian legislation, what additional information is needed for managers, and the required management actions. Recovery plans, where they exist, are evaluated. The voluntary participation of more than 200 mammal experts has ensured that the conservation status and information are as accurate as possible, and allowed considerable unpublished data to be included. All accounts include maps based on the latest data from Australian state and territory agencies, from published scientific literature and other sources. The Action Plan concludes that 29 Australian mammal species have become extinct and 63 species are threatened and require urgent conservation action. However, it also shows that, where guided by sound knowledge, management capability and resourcing, and longer-term commitment, there have been some notable conservation success stories, and the conservation status of some species has greatly improved over the past few decades. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 makes a major contribution to the conservation of a wonderful legacy that is a significant part of Australia’s heritage. For such a legacy to endure, our society must be more aware of and empathetic with our distinctively Australian environment, and particularly its marvellous mammal fauna; relevant information must be readily accessible; environmental policy and law must be based on sound evidence; those with responsibility for environmental management must be aware of what priority actions they should take; the urgency for action (and consequences of inaction) must be clear; and the opportunity for hope and success must be recognised. It is in this spirit that this account is offered. Winner of a 2015 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation for Zoological Resource.

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Williams, Nicholas, Adrian Marshall, and John Morgan, eds. Land of Sweeping Plains. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486300822.

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Native temperate grasslands are Australia’s most threatened ecosystems. Grasslands have been eliminated from across much of their former extent and continue to be threatened by urban expansion, agricultural intensification, weed invasion and the uncertain impacts of climate change. Research, however, is showing us new ways to manage grasslands, and techniques for restoration are advancing. The importance of ongoing stewardship also means it is vital to develop new strategies to encourage a broader cross-section of society to understand and appreciate native grasslands and their ecology. Land of Sweeping Plains synthesises the scientific literature in a readily accessible manner and includes a wealth of practical experience held by policy makers, farmers, community activists and on-ground grassland managers. It aims to provide all involved in grassland management and restoration with the technical information necessary to conserve and enhance native grasslands. For readers without the responsibility of management, such as students and those interested in biodiversity conservation, it provides a detailed understanding of native grassland ecology, management challenges and solutions and, importantly, inspiration to engage with this critically endangered ecosystem. Practical, easy to read and richly illustrated, this book brings together the grassland knowledge of experts in ethnobotany, ecology, monitoring, planning, environmental psychology, community engagement, flora and fauna management, environmental restoration, agronomy, landscape architecture and urban design.

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Hensley, Nathan K., and Philip Steer, eds. Ecological Form. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.001.0001.

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Victorian England was both the world’s first industrial society and its most powerful global empire. Ecological Form coordinates those facts to show how one version of the Anthropocene first emerged into visibility in the nineteenth century. Many of that era’s most sophisticated observers recognized that the systemic interconnections and global scale of both empire and ecology posed challenges best examined through aesthetic form. Using “ecological formalism” to open new dimensions to our understanding of the Age of Coal, contributors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate “natural” questions with social ones; and underscore the category of form—as built structure, internal organizing logic, and generic code—as a means for generating environmental and therefore political knowledge. Together these essays show how Victorian thinkers deployed an array of literary forms, from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance and the scientific treatise, to think interconnection at world scale. They also renovate our understanding of major writers like Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Joseph Conrad, even while demonstrating the centrality of less celebrated figures, including Dinabandhu Mitra, Samuel Butler, and Joseph Dalton Hooker, to contemporary debates about the humanities and climate change. As the essays survey the circuits of dispossession linking Britain to the Atlantic World, Bengal, New Zealand, and elsewhere—and connecting the Victorian era to our own—they advance the most pressing argument of Ecological Form, which is that past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.

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Hodge, Thomas P. Hunting Nature. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750847.001.0001.

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This book explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting — the most unquenchable passion of his life. Informed by an ecocritical perspective, the book takes an approach that is equal parts interpretive and documentarian, grounding the author's observations thoroughly in Russian cultural and linguistic context and a wide range of Turgenev's fiction, poetry, correspondence, and other writings. Included within the book are some of Turgenev's important writings on nature — never previously translated into English. Turgenev, who is traditionally identified as a chronicler of Russia's ideological struggles, is presented in the book as an expert naturalist whose intimate knowledge of flora and fauna deeply informed his view of philosophy, politics, and the role of literature in society. Ultimately, the book argues that we stand to learn a great deal about Turgenev's thought and complex literary technique when we read him in both cultural and environmental contexts. The book details how Turgenev remains mindful of the way textual detail is wedded to the organic world — the priroda that he observed, and ached for, more keenly than perhaps any other Russian writer.

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