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The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde
| The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RobinLibby <1956->
SörlinSverker WardePaul |
| Soggetto topico |
Global environmental change
Overpopulation Climatic changes |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-300-18847-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Future of Nature -- Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction Documenting Global Change -- Part 1. Population Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy? -- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) -- The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) -- "Ghost Acreage" (1962) -- The Population Bomb (1968) -- Part 2. Sustainability Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources ? -- Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) -- Sylvicultura oeconomica -- The Coal Question (1865) -- "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) -- The Limits to Growth (1972) -- Part 3. Geographies Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen? -- The Pulse of Asia (1907) -- "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) -- The Northward Course of Empire (1922) -- Part 4. "The Environment" How Did the Idea Emerge? -- How Did the Idea Emerge? -- Deserts on the March (1935) -- Road to Survival (1948) -- Silent Spring (1962) -- Part 5. Ecology How Do We Understand Natural Systems? -- Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) -- "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) -- Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) -- Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) -- Part 6. Technology Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves? -- The Tree of Science (1857) -- To Choose a Future (1972) -- "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) -- Part 7. Climate How Can We Predict Change? -- "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) -- "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) -- "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) -- "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938) -- "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) -- "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) -- Part 8. Diversity Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It? -- The Invaders (1958) -- The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980) -- "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) -- "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) -- Part 9 Measuring How Do We Turn the World into Data? -- An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) -- "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) -- Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) -- The Economics of Climate Change (2006) -- Part 10. The Anthropocene How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People? -- "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000) -- "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) -- "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Commentators -- Selection Credits -- Index -- About the editors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452608603321 |
| New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde
| The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RobinLibby <1956->
SörlinSverker WardePaul |
| Soggetto topico |
Global environmental change
Overpopulation Climatic changes |
| ISBN | 0-300-18847-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Future of Nature -- Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction Documenting Global Change -- Part 1. Population Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy? -- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) -- The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) -- "Ghost Acreage" (1962) -- The Population Bomb (1968) -- Part 2. Sustainability Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources ? -- Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) -- Sylvicultura oeconomica -- The Coal Question (1865) -- "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) -- The Limits to Growth (1972) -- Part 3. Geographies Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen? -- The Pulse of Asia (1907) -- "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) -- The Northward Course of Empire (1922) -- Part 4. "The Environment" How Did the Idea Emerge? -- How Did the Idea Emerge? -- Deserts on the March (1935) -- Road to Survival (1948) -- Silent Spring (1962) -- Part 5. Ecology How Do We Understand Natural Systems? -- Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) -- "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) -- Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) -- Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) -- Part 6. Technology Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves? -- The Tree of Science (1857) -- To Choose a Future (1972) -- "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) -- Part 7. Climate How Can We Predict Change? -- "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) -- "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) -- "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) -- "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938) -- "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) -- "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) -- Part 8. Diversity Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It? -- The Invaders (1958) -- The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980) -- "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) -- "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) -- Part 9 Measuring How Do We Turn the World into Data? -- An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) -- "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) -- Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) -- The Economics of Climate Change (2006) -- Part 10. The Anthropocene How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People? -- "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000) -- "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) -- "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Commentators -- Selection Credits -- Index -- About the editors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790663503321 |
| New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde
| The future of nature : documents of global change / / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RobinLibby <1956->
SörlinSverker WardePaul |
| Soggetto topico |
Global environmental change
Overpopulation Climatic changes |
| ISBN | 0-300-18847-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Future of Nature -- Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction Documenting Global Change -- Part 1. Population Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy? -- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) -- The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) -- "Ghost Acreage" (1962) -- The Population Bomb (1968) -- Part 2. Sustainability Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources ? -- Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) -- Sylvicultura oeconomica -- The Coal Question (1865) -- "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) -- The Limits to Growth (1972) -- Part 3. Geographies Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen? -- The Pulse of Asia (1907) -- "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) -- The Northward Course of Empire (1922) -- Part 4. "The Environment" How Did the Idea Emerge? -- How Did the Idea Emerge? -- Deserts on the March (1935) -- Road to Survival (1948) -- Silent Spring (1962) -- Part 5. Ecology How Do We Understand Natural Systems? -- Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) -- "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) -- Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) -- Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) -- Part 6. Technology Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves? -- The Tree of Science (1857) -- To Choose a Future (1972) -- "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) -- Part 7. Climate How Can We Predict Change? -- "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) -- "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) -- "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) -- "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938) -- "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) -- "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) -- Part 8. Diversity Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It? -- The Invaders (1958) -- The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980) -- "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) -- "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) -- Part 9 Measuring How Do We Turn the World into Data? -- An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) -- "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) -- Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) -- The Economics of Climate Change (2006) -- Part 10. The Anthropocene How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People? -- "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000) -- "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) -- "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Commentators -- Selection Credits -- Index -- About the editors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819572103321 |
| New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grounding urban natures : histories and futures of urban ecologies / / edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin
| Grounding urban natures : histories and futures of urban ecologies / / edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (441 pages) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/091732 |
| Collana | Urban and Industrial Environments |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization - Environmental aspects |
| ISBN |
0-262-35317-2
0-262-35316-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Toward comparative environmental urbanism : the discovery of urban natures in a "world of cities" / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin -- The disappearing river : infrastructural desire in New Orleans / Joshua Lewis -- Natures remade and imagined : "world city" beautifying and real-estate reclaiming in Lagos / Lindsay Sawyer -- Landscape literacy and design for ecological democracy : the nature of Mill Creek, Philadelphia / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Realms of exposure : design and the making of more-than-human ecologies in Cordoba, Argentina / Martín Ávila and Henrik Ernstson -- Nature's popular metropolis : the greening ofthe San Francisco Bay Area / Richard A. Walker -- Invasion and citizen mobilization : urban natures in Dalian, China / Lisa M. Hoffman -- Urban nature and its publics : shades of green in the remaking of Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- Regimes of urban nature : organic urbanism, biotope protection, and civic gardening in Berlin / Jens Lachmund -- Elbows over the fence : Rondevlei and the invention of community-based conservation in apartheid Cape Town / Lance van Sittert -- Ecology in the urban century : power, place and the abstraction of nature in Baltimore / James Evans -- Re-figuring the rural : eco-urbanization in Yixing City, China / Jia-Ching Chen -- Grounding and worlding urban natures : configuring an urban ecology knowledge project / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557557903321 |
| Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri
| Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.432 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SörlinSverker
VessuriHebe M. C |
| Collana | Issues in higher education |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Social aspects
Education, Higher - Economic aspects Knowledge, Sociology of |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-349-53430-7
1-281-36298-0 9786611362980 0-230-60351-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Democratic Deficit of Knowledge Economies; 1 Modes of Knowledge and Patterns of Power; 2 Universities and Society: Whose Terms of Engagement?; 3 Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Knowledge and Equity: Unequal Access to Education, Academic Success and Employment Opportunities: The Gender Balance in Algeria; 5 Knowledge, Culture, and Politics: The Status of Women in the Arab World; 6 Knowledge, Theory, and Tension Between Local and Universal Knowledge
7 The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development8 Remarks on the Relationship between Knowledge Functions and the Role of the University; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451144103321 |
| Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri
| Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.432 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SörlinSverker
VessuriHebe M. C |
| Collana | Issues in higher education |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Social aspects
Education, Higher - Economic aspects Knowledge, Sociology of |
| ISBN |
1-349-53430-7
1-281-36298-0 9786611362980 0-230-60351-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Democratic Deficit of Knowledge Economies; 1 Modes of Knowledge and Patterns of Power; 2 Universities and Society: Whose Terms of Engagement?; 3 Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Knowledge and Equity: Unequal Access to Education, Academic Success and Employment Opportunities: The Gender Balance in Algeria; 5 Knowledge, Culture, and Politics: The Status of Women in the Arab World; 6 Knowledge, Theory, and Tension Between Local and Universal Knowledge
7 The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development8 Remarks on the Relationship between Knowledge Functions and the Role of the University; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784240503321 |
| Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri
| Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.432 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SörlinSverker
VessuriHebe M. C |
| Collana | Issues in higher education |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Social aspects
Education, Higher - Economic aspects Knowledge, Sociology of |
| ISBN |
1-349-53430-7
1-281-36298-0 9786611362980 0-230-60351-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Democratic Deficit of Knowledge Economies; 1 Modes of Knowledge and Patterns of Power; 2 Universities and Society: Whose Terms of Engagement?; 3 Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Knowledge and Equity: Unequal Access to Education, Academic Success and Employment Opportunities: The Gender Balance in Algeria; 5 Knowledge, Culture, and Politics: The Status of Women in the Arab World; 6 Knowledge, Theory, and Tension Between Local and Universal Knowledge
7 The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development8 Remarks on the Relationship between Knowledge Functions and the Role of the University; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811073903321 |
| Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||