Biodemocracy
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Biodemocracy
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Author : Elizabeth Peter-Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Biodemocracy written by Elizabeth Peter-Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Political Science categories.
Political Ecology Across Spaces Scales And Social Groups
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Author : Susan Paulson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
Political Ecology Across Spaces Scales And Social Groups written by Susan Paulson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels. The two opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. They point to the entangled relationship between humans, politics, economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first century and address challenges that scholars face in navigating the blurring boundaries among relevant fields of enquiry. The twelve case studies that follow demonstrate ways that culture and politics serve to mediate human-environmental relationships in specific ecological and geographical contexts. Taken together, they describe uses of and conflicts over resources including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge, and information; they exemplify wide-ranging ecological settings including deserts, coasts, rainforests, high mountains, and modern cities; and they explore sites located around the world, from Canada to Tonga and cyberspace.
A Constitution Of Direct Democracy
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Author : Michael N Mautner, Ph. D.
language : en
Publisher: Legacy Books
Release Date : 2000-01-01
A Constitution Of Direct Democracy written by Michael N Mautner, Ph. D. and has been published by Legacy Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Political Science categories.
All people share the basic needs of survival and the social drives embedded in human nature. Survival demands sustenance, safety and procreation; and the social drives demand dignity, justice and freedom. These shared values emerge when the common will is distilled from the diverse wills of people. Where this communal wisdom governs, human dignity will be honored and our survival will be secure. This book describes a system of pure democracy where all major decision are done through referendums and statistically meaningful public opinion polls. The policies are then executed by expert agencies with oversight from public policy panels. The book also describes transition to Direct Democracy through Representatives pledged to "I shall vote in Congress or Parliament according to the instructions of my constituents."
Monocultures Of The Mind
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Author : Vandana Shiva
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1993-02
Monocultures Of The Mind written by Vandana Shiva and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.
Healing The Republic
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Author : Joan Burbick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-08-26
Healing The Republic written by Joan Burbick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-26 with History categories.
In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual reports of mental asylums, home physician manuals, social reform books, and novels consumed by the middle class that functioned as cautionary tales of well-being. Read together these writings engage in a counterpoint of voices at once constructing and debating the hegemonic values of the emerging American nation. That political values flow from the daily exigencies of survival and enjoyment is one of the claims advanced by theorists of cultural hegemony. Broadening this assumption, the narratives of health presented here address the demands and desires of everyday life and construct a national discourse with directives on control, authority, and subordination. They articulate the wish for a healthy citizenry, freed of pain and saturated with well-being, and they insist upon specific ideologies and knowledges of the body in order to achieve this radiance of health. Divided into two parts, the work first examines the structures of authority found in health narratives and then studies the topology of the body found in a cross section of writings. The first part examines how the authority of "common sense" is pitted against that of physiological law and its transcendent "constitution" for the body. The second analyzes how specific knowledges about the brain, heart, nerves, and eye provide individual "keys" to health, indices that reveal the conflicts inherent in American nationalism. In studying thesenarratives of health, Healing the Republic confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America. Fearing the political freedom they hoped to embrace. Americans designed ways to control the body in the effort to create, impose, or encompass social order in a corporeal politics whose influences are felt to this day.
Genetic Engineering
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Author : Mikko Canini
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 2006
Genetic Engineering written by Mikko Canini and has been published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Uses speeches, court cases, personal reflections, and newspaper accounts to address genetic engineering issues such as genetically modified crops, human and animal cloning, and gene patenting.
The Utne Reader
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Utne Reader written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Underground press publications categories.
The Case Against The Global Economy
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Author : Jerry Mander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Case Against The Global Economy written by Jerry Mander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
In this book, Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith gather more than 40 economic, agricultural, and environmental experts to convey a complete picture of how globalization will affect our lives.
Seed Savers
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Seed Savers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Seed exchanges categories.
Strong Women Eat Well
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Author : Miriam E. Nelson Ph.D
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-05-07
Strong Women Eat Well written by Miriam E. Nelson Ph.D and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-07 with Health & Fitness categories.
Dr. Miriam Nelson clears away the misconceptions and myths-often fueled by the proponents of diets that focus on weight loss-and explains how to make the right food decisions. She offers sound, scientifically based advice, and shows women how to finally find pleasure in eating-and eating well. Included are: Why high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are ineffective and potentially dangerous How to read and understand "Nutrition Facts" The formula for determining how much protein is needed Advice on whether to buy organic What "fat-free" really means on a label The latest information on genetically engineered foods Advice on supplements 50 recipes and more