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UNINA9910993984803321 |
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Swilling Mark |
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Just transitions : explorations of sustainability in an unfair world / / Mark Swilling, Eve Annecke |
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Claremont, South Africa, : UCT Press |
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Tokyo, Japan, : Published in North America, Europe and Asia by United Nations University Press, 2012 |
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Tokyo : , : University of Cape Town Press, , [2012] |
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Ā©2012 |
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9789280871722 |
9280871722 |
9781920541675 |
1920541675 |
9781920541682 |
1920541683 |
191989523X |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiii, 360 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Sustainable development - Developing countries |
Natural resources - Developing countries - Management |
Sustainable development - South Africa |
DeĢveloppement durable - Afrique du Sud |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Industries - General |
Developing countries Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: on becoming visible -- Part I. Complexity, sustainability and transition. Ch. 1. Complexity and sustainability -- Ch. 2. What is so unsustainable? -- Ch. 3. Crisis, transitions and sustainability -- Part II. Rethinking development. Ch. 4. Greening the developmental state -- Ch. 5. Rethinking urbanism -- Ch. 6. Soils, land and food security -- Part III. From resource wars to sustainable living. Ch. 7. Resource wars, failed states and blood consumption: insights from Sudan -- Ch. 8. |
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Transcending resource and energy-intensive growth: lessons from South Africa -- Ch. 9. Decoupling, urbanism and transition in Cape Town -- Ch. 10. Pioneering liveable urbanism: reflections on an invisible way. |
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Current economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting the natural resources and ecosystem services that we depend on. Just Transitions provides a comprehensive overview of these challenges from a Global South perspective. The authors ask: How do developing countries eradicate poverty via economic development, while at the same time facing the consequences of global warming and dwindling levels of cheap oil, productive soils, metals, clean water supplies, and forest products? How do they address widening inequalities in income as well as the need to rebuild ecosystem services and natural resources? The book considers the theme of a just transition, which reconciles the sustainable use of natural resources with a pervasive commitment to sufficiency (where overconsumers are satisfied with less so that underconsumers can secure enough). It explores a range of different viewpoints and ideas and synthesizes them to illuminate new ways of thinking from a sustainability perspective. It rethinks development with special reference to the greening of the developmental state, explores the key role that cities could play in the transition to a more sustainably urbanized world, and highlights the neglect of soils in the global discussions around the potential of sustainable agriculture to feed the world. Case studies drawn from the African continent detail the challenges, but they are set in the context of global trends. The authors conclude with their experiences in building a community that aspires to live sustainably. |
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UNINA9910958435903321 |
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Autore |
Halliwell Martin |
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Images of idiocy : the idiot figure in modern fiction and film / / Martin Halliwell |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-138-27582-4 |
1-315-25270-8 |
1-351-92884-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations |
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People with mental disabilities in literature |
People with mental disabilities in motion pictures |
Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Monografia |
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First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Idiocy in the nineteenth century -- pt. II. Idiocy and modernism -- pt. III. Idiocy after World War II. |
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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture. |
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