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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
| Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456888403321 |
| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
| Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
| ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781647103321 |
| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
| Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
| Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
| ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806178403321 |
| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Towards a just climate change resilience : developing resilient, anticipatory and inclusive community response / / edited by Pedro Henrique Campello Torres and Pedro Roberto Jacobi
| Towards a just climate change resilience : developing resilient, anticipatory and inclusive community response / / edited by Pedro Henrique Campello Torres and Pedro Roberto Jacobi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (131 pages) |
| Disciplina | 363.70561 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies Ser. |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Political aspects
Environmental justice in literature Climatic changes - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-81622-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Community Practices and Climate Justice-A Global South Perspective in the Face of Climate Emergency -- Background -- Scope of the Book -- Structure and Contents of the Book -- References -- 2 Building Small-Scale Fishers' Adaptive Capacity Through Participatory Action Research in Coastal Uruguay -- Introduction -- A Fisheries Case Study in Piriápolis, Coastal Uruguay -- Building Fishers' Adaptive Capacity Through Participatory Action Research (PAR) -- Assets -- Flexibility -- Social Organization -- Learning -- Agency -- PAR in the Science-Policy-Society Interface in the Context of Global Climate Change -- References -- 3 Ensuring Water Security for Climate Vulnerable Communities in Coastal Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Research Sites and Methods -- Overview of the Sites -- Data Collection Tools -- Sampling Procedure -- Water Security and Interlinking Factors -- Access to Water in Garoikhali and Kumkhali Village -- Causes of Water Scarcity and Its Effects in a Changing Climate -- Causes of Water Scarcity -- Effects of Scarcity of Freshwater -- Current Coping Strategies and Their Limitations -- Ensuring Water Security: How Community People Thinks!! -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Policy and Planning Responses to Climate Change in Solomon Islands: A Place for Forest-Based Carbon Offset Initiatives in Building Just and Resilient Territories? -- Introduction -- Background: Solomon Islands, Development and Forests -- Climate Change and the Pacific -- An Environmental Justice Approach -- Climate Change and Solomon Islands' Policy and Planning Responses -- Forests as Carbon and a Just Transition? -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: Beyond Climate-How to Approach Resilience in Extremely Vulnerable Territories?.
Roots of Vulnerability in Northern Mozambique: The Case of Cabo Delgado (2015-2021) -- Climate Events and Vulnerability -- Political Instability and Violence -- Towards an Integrated Approach to Resilience and Human Capabilities -- References -- 6 Climate Injustice in Brazil: What We Are Failing Towards a Just Transition in a Climate Emergency Scenario? -- Introduction -- Material and Methods -- Theoretical Framework -- Illustrative Cases for Discussion -- Case 1-City of Fortaleza Municipal Climate Change Plan and the Climate Change Forum (FORCLIMA) -- Case 2-The City of Rio de Janeiro Climate Change Adaptation Strategy -- Case 3-City of Santos and the Municipal Climate Change Plan (PMMCS) -- Discussion -- Conclusion and Learnings -- References -- 7 Community Practices and Climate Justice from the Global South: Synthesis and Ways Forward -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910510583203321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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