Ecologies of Urbanism in India : Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability / / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hong Kong [China] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.760954 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SivaramakrishnanK. <1957->
RademacherAnne |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development - India
Sustainability - India Urban ecology (Sociology) - India |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
988-8180-71-1
988-220-848-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword / by Helen F. Siu -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction : ecologies of urbanism in India / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 2. Is there an "Indian" urbanism? / Janaki Nair -- 3. One air, two interventions : Delhi in the age of environment / Awadhendra sharan -- 4. The troubled passage from "village communities" to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia / William J. Glover -- 5. Flexible planning : the making of India's "millennium city" / Gurgaon Shubhra Gururani -- 6. From the frying pan to the floodplain : negotiating land, Water, and fire in Chennai's development / Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman -- 7. Value struggles : waste work and urban ecology in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani -- 8. Housing in the urban age : inequality and aspiration in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher -- 9. Resettlement ecologies : environmental subjectivity and graduated citizenship in Mumbai / Sapana Doshi -- 10. Nuisance talk : middle-class discourses of a slum-free Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463413203321 |
Hong Kong [China] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India : Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability / / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hong Kong [China] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.760954 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SivaramakrishnanK. <1957->
RademacherAnne |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development - India
Sustainability - India Urban ecology (Sociology) - India |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
988-8180-71-1
988-220-848-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword / by Helen F. Siu -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction : ecologies of urbanism in India / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 2. Is there an "Indian" urbanism? / Janaki Nair -- 3. One air, two interventions : Delhi in the age of environment / Awadhendra sharan -- 4. The troubled passage from "village communities" to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia / William J. Glover -- 5. Flexible planning : the making of India's "millennium city" / Gurgaon Shubhra Gururani -- 6. From the frying pan to the floodplain : negotiating land, Water, and fire in Chennai's development / Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman -- 7. Value struggles : waste work and urban ecology in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani -- 8. Housing in the urban age : inequality and aspiration in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher -- 9. Resettlement ecologies : environmental subjectivity and graduated citizenship in Mumbai / Sapana Doshi -- 10. Nuisance talk : middle-class discourses of a slum-free Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788492203321 |
Hong Kong [China] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment and Society : A Reader / / Christopher Schlottmann, Dale Jamieson, Colin Jerolmack, Anne Rademacher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DamonMaria |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy
Environmental responsibility Environmentalism Globalization - Environmental aspects Human ecology |
ISBN | 1-4798-4474-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Environment and Society -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ideas of Nature -- 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature -- 2. The Anthropocene -- 3. Excerpts from The World without Us -- 4. Excerpts from “Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative” -- 5. Excerpts from Laudato Si -- 6. Excerpts from “The Etiquette of Freedom” -- 7. Excerpts from “The Land Ethic” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part II. Environmentalism and Environmental Movements -- 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley -- 9. Excerpts from Silent Spring -- 10. Excerpts from “Environmentalism and Social Justice” -- 11. Excerpts from “Where We Live, Work, and Play” -- 12. Excerpts from “The Death of Environmentalism” -- 13. The Paradox of Global Environmentalism -- 14. Excerpts from “Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part III. Population and Consumption -- 15. Excerpts from “An Essay on the Principle of Population” -- 16. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? -- 17. Excerpts from “The IPAT Equation and Its Variants” -- 18. Excerpts from “Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity” -- 19. The NEXT Industrial Revolution -- 20. Excerpts from “In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement” -- 21. Excerpts from “Overpopulation versus Biodiversity” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part IV. Public Goods and Collective Action -- 22. Excerpts from “The Tragedy of the Commons” -- 23. Revisiting the Commons -- 24. Excerpts from “Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco” -- 25. Averting the Tragedy of the Commons -- 26. Excerpts from “Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations” -- 27. Excerpts from “About Free- Market Environmentalism” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part V. Values and Justice -- 28. Excerpts from “Walking” -- 29. Excerpts from “Naturalness as a Source of Value” -- 30. Excerpts from “Conservation” -- 31. Sustainability -- 32. Excerpts from “Theorising Environmental Justice: The Expanding Sphere of a Discourse” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part VI. Environmental Controversies -- City and Country -- 33. Excerpts from “More like Manhattan” -- 34. Excerpts from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Agrarian and Industrial Agriculture -- 35. Excerpts from “The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead” -- 36. The Agrarian Standard -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Managing Nature versus Stewardship -- 37. Excerpts from “Earth Systems Engineering and Management” -- 38. The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Index -- About the Editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158657203321 |
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment and Society : A Reader / / Christopher Schlottmann, Dale Jamieson, Colin Jerolmack, Anne Rademacher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DamonMaria |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy
Environmental responsibility Environmentalism Globalization - Environmental aspects Human ecology |
ISBN | 1-4798-4474-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Environment and Society -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ideas of Nature -- 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature -- 2. The Anthropocene -- 3. Excerpts from The World without Us -- 4. Excerpts from “Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative” -- 5. Excerpts from Laudato Si -- 6. Excerpts from “The Etiquette of Freedom” -- 7. Excerpts from “The Land Ethic” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part II. Environmentalism and Environmental Movements -- 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley -- 9. Excerpts from Silent Spring -- 10. Excerpts from “Environmentalism and Social Justice” -- 11. Excerpts from “Where We Live, Work, and Play” -- 12. Excerpts from “The Death of Environmentalism” -- 13. The Paradox of Global Environmentalism -- 14. Excerpts from “Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part III. Population and Consumption -- 15. Excerpts from “An Essay on the Principle of Population” -- 16. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? -- 17. Excerpts from “The IPAT Equation and Its Variants” -- 18. Excerpts from “Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity” -- 19. The NEXT Industrial Revolution -- 20. Excerpts from “In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement” -- 21. Excerpts from “Overpopulation versus Biodiversity” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part IV. Public Goods and Collective Action -- 22. Excerpts from “The Tragedy of the Commons” -- 23. Revisiting the Commons -- 24. Excerpts from “Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco” -- 25. Averting the Tragedy of the Commons -- 26. Excerpts from “Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations” -- 27. Excerpts from “About Free- Market Environmentalism” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part V. Values and Justice -- 28. Excerpts from “Walking” -- 29. Excerpts from “Naturalness as a Source of Value” -- 30. Excerpts from “Conservation” -- 31. Sustainability -- 32. Excerpts from “Theorising Environmental Justice: The Expanding Sphere of a Discourse” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part VI. Environmental Controversies -- City and Country -- 33. Excerpts from “More like Manhattan” -- 34. Excerpts from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Agrarian and Industrial Agriculture -- 35. Excerpts from “The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead” -- 36. The Agrarian Standard -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Managing Nature versus Stewardship -- 37. Excerpts from “Earth Systems Engineering and Management” -- 38. The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Index -- About the Editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792659203321 |
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment and Society : A Reader / / Christopher Schlottmann, Dale Jamieson, Colin Jerolmack, Anne Rademacher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DamonMaria |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy
Environmental responsibility Environmentalism Globalization - Environmental aspects Human ecology |
ISBN | 1-4798-4474-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Environment and Society -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ideas of Nature -- 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature -- 2. The Anthropocene -- 3. Excerpts from The World without Us -- 4. Excerpts from “Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative” -- 5. Excerpts from Laudato Si -- 6. Excerpts from “The Etiquette of Freedom” -- 7. Excerpts from “The Land Ethic” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part II. Environmentalism and Environmental Movements -- 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley -- 9. Excerpts from Silent Spring -- 10. Excerpts from “Environmentalism and Social Justice” -- 11. Excerpts from “Where We Live, Work, and Play” -- 12. Excerpts from “The Death of Environmentalism” -- 13. The Paradox of Global Environmentalism -- 14. Excerpts from “Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part III. Population and Consumption -- 15. Excerpts from “An Essay on the Principle of Population” -- 16. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? -- 17. Excerpts from “The IPAT Equation and Its Variants” -- 18. Excerpts from “Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity” -- 19. The NEXT Industrial Revolution -- 20. Excerpts from “In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement” -- 21. Excerpts from “Overpopulation versus Biodiversity” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part IV. Public Goods and Collective Action -- 22. Excerpts from “The Tragedy of the Commons” -- 23. Revisiting the Commons -- 24. Excerpts from “Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco” -- 25. Averting the Tragedy of the Commons -- 26. Excerpts from “Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations” -- 27. Excerpts from “About Free- Market Environmentalism” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part V. Values and Justice -- 28. Excerpts from “Walking” -- 29. Excerpts from “Naturalness as a Source of Value” -- 30. Excerpts from “Conservation” -- 31. Sustainability -- 32. Excerpts from “Theorising Environmental Justice: The Expanding Sphere of a Discourse” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Part VI. Environmental Controversies -- City and Country -- 33. Excerpts from “More like Manhattan” -- 34. Excerpts from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom” -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Agrarian and Industrial Agriculture -- 35. Excerpts from “The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead” -- 36. The Agrarian Standard -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Managing Nature versus Stewardship -- 37. Excerpts from “Earth Systems Engineering and Management” -- 38. The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- Index -- About the Editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825544103321 |
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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