Decision making for a sustainable environment : a systemic approach / / Chris Maser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452846503321
• Autore: Maser Chris.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-429-09864-2; 1-4665-5217-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Collana: Social-environmental sustainability series
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetti: Sustainable development - Decision making; Environmental policy - Decision making; Environmental protection - Decision making; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Nature's urgent message to the world's decision makers -- section 2. When the decision making becomes self-serving -- section 3. What makes a psychologically mature decision maker?
• Sommario/riassunto: Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability, and social justice for all generations. As such, it demands a systemic point of view. Decision Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach gives readers the tools to replace the dysfunctional, symptomatic decision making that has plunged the world into envir

The community, the individual and the common good : to Idion' and 'to Sympheron' in the Greco-Roman world and Paul / Kei Eun Chang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154701303321
• Autore: Chang Kei Eun
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Bloomsbury, 2013
• ISBN: 9781472550873; 1472550870; 9780567395979; 0567395979
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Collana: Library of New Testament studies ; 480
• Disciplina: 261.8325; 261.83250901
• Soggetti: Solidarity - Religious aspects - Christianity; Communities - Religious aspects - Christianity; Conflict management - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Part-Whole Argument and To Sympheron in Antiquity -- 3. The Part-Whole Body Politic and Functions of To Sympheron -- 4. To Sympheron and Cicero's De Officiis -- 5. Paul's Use of Part-Whole Argument of To Sympheron in 1 Corinthians -- 6. Conclusion - To Sympheron for the advantage of the Gospel to the Many
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book investigates Paul's effort to combat factionalism by his use of the Greco-Roman rhetoric of 'the common advantage' to overcome socio-ethical problems caused by the improper exercise of 'private advantage' in Corinth. Chang examines' the common advantage', first, as a fundamental principle that defined human and societal relationships in the Greco-Roman world. He explores how the neglect and misunderstanding of this principle lay at the root of relational and societal breakdowns. The book further examines Paul's use of the term and demonstrates that, when properly understood and appropriated, the principle of 'the common advantage' is pivotal to keeping societies and relationships dynamic and healthy. Conversely, when common ; advantage is not functioning and, concomitantly, private advantage is wrongly emphasized at its expense, relational, societal and ecclesiastical breakdowns occur. The book culminates in demonstrating that, for Paul, 'the common advantage' carries missional and salvific implications that override and subvert socio-ethnic boundaries. In this way, otherwise hostile social groups will realize a healthy symbiosis."--Bloomsbury Publishing; This book investigates Paul's effort to combat factionalism by his use of the Greco-Roman rhetoric of 'the common advantage' to overcome socio-ethical problems caused by the improper exercise of 'private advantage' in Corinth. Chang examines 'the common advantage', first, as a fundamental principle that defined human and societal relationships in the Greco-Roman world. He explores how the neglect and misunderstanding of this principle lay at the root of relational and societal breakdowns. The book further examines Paul's use of the term and demonstrates that, when properly understood and appropriated, the principle of 'the common advantage' is pivotal to keeping societies and relationships dynamic and healthy. Conversely,when common advantage is not functioning and, concomitantly, private advantage is wrongly emphasized at its expense, relational, societal and ecclesiastical breakdowns occur. The book culminates in demonstrating that, for Paul, 'the common advantage' carries missional and salvific implications that override and subvert socio-ethnic boundaries. In this way, otherwise hostile social groups will realize a healthy symbiosis