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UNINA9910450373703321 |
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Autore |
Thayer Robert L |
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Titolo |
LifePlace [[electronic resource] ] : bioregional thought and practice / / Robert L. Thayer, Jr |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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1-59734-714-0 |
9786612359606 |
1-282-35960-6 |
0-520-93680-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Bioregionalism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Bioregional Thinking -- 1. Grounding. Finding the Physical Place -- 2. Living. Awakening to a Live Region -- 3. Re-inhabiting. Recovering a Bioregional Culture -- 4. Fulfilling. Celebrating the Spirit of Place -- 5. Imagining. Creating Art of the Life-Place -- 6. Trading. Exchanging Natural Values -- 7. Planning. Designing a Life-Place -- 8. Building. Making Bioregions Work -- 9. Learning. Spreading Local Wisdom -- 10. Acting. Taking Personal Responsibility -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index |
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Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. Life Place is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to live, work, eat, and play in relation to naturally, rather than politically, defined areas. In it, Thayer gives a richly textured portrait of his own home, the Putah-Cache watershed in California's Sacramento Valley, demonstrating how bioregionalism can be practiced in everyday life. Written in a lively anecdotal style and expressing a profound love of place, this book is a guide to the |
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personal rewards and the social benefits of re-inhabiting the natural world on a local scale. In LifePlace, Thayer shares what he has learned over the course of thirty years about the Sacramento Valley's geography, minerals, flora, and fauna; its relation to fire, agriculture, and water; and its indigenous peoples, farmers, and artists. He shows how the spirit of bioregionalism springs from learning the history of a place, from participating in its local economy, from living in housing designed in the context of the region. He asks: How can we instill a love of place and knowledge of the local into our education system? How can the economy become more responsive to the ecology of region? This valuable book is also a window onto current writing on bioregionalism, introducing the ideas of its most notable proponents in accessible and highly engaging prose. At the same time that it gives an entirely new appreciation of California's Central Valley, LifePlace shows how we can move toward a new way of being, thinking, and acting in the world that can lead to a sustainable, harmonious, and more satisfying future. |
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UNINA9910782994503321 |
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The politics of labor in a global age [[electronic resource] ] : continuity and change in late-industralizing and post-socialist economies / / edited by Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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0-19-159892-5 |
1-281-98982-7 |
9786611989828 |
0-19-152898-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (370 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CandlandChristopher |
SilRudra <1967-> |
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Comparative industrial relations |
Foreign trade and employment |
Globalization - Economic aspects |
Industrial relations - Developing countries |
Post-communism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Politics of Labor in Late-industrializing and Post-socialist Economies: New Challenges in a Global Age""; ""Part I: Labor in Late-Industrializing Economies""; ""2. Partisan Loyalty and Union Competition: Macroeconomic Adjustment and Industrial Restructuring in Mexico""; ""3. The Cost of Incorporation: Labor Institutions, Industrial Restructuring, and New Trade Union Strategies in India and Pakistan"" |
""4. Network Ties and Labor Flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: A Tale of Two Automobile Factories""""5. Globalization, Social Partnership, and Industrial Relations in Ireland""; ""6. Globalization and the Paradigm Shift in Japanese Industrial Relations""; ""Part II: Labor in Post-socialist Economies""; ""7. Transition, Globalization, and Changing Industrial Relations in China""; ""8. Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-market Norms, Market Institutions, and the Soviet Legacy"" |
""9. Globalization in One Country: East Germany between Moral Economy and Political Economy""""10. Corporatist Renaissance in Post-communist Central Europe?""; ""Conclusion""; ""11. Institutional Legacies and the Transformation of Labor: Late-industrializing and Post-socialist Economies in Comparative-Historical Perspective""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
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This volume features essays on labour relations at national, local, and workplace levels, as economic and political actors cope with the similar challenges associated with economic adjustment measures and the impact of 'globalization'. |
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