Tools For Extinction
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Tools For Extinction
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Author : Naja Marie Aidt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Tools For Extinction written by Naja Marie Aidt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with COVID-19 (Disease) categories.
Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Original work by Enrique Vila-Matas, Olivia Sudjic, Jon Fosse, Inger Wold Lund, Vi Khi Nao, Patrícia Portela, Lucie Elven, Mara Coson, Christina Hesselholdt, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Salu, Joanna Walsh, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Anna Zett, Emilio Fraia, Frode Grytten, and Olga Ravn Translations by Margaret Jull Costa, Zoë Perry, Martin Aitken, Denise Newman, Paul Russell Garrett, Damion Searls, and Rahul Bery Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease - or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving "access to tools", a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. Compiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen. Praise for Tools for Extinction The strongest lockdown literature - Michael La Pointe, TLS All the pieces here feel like they could end abruptly. They often do. This gives the collection a start and stop quality that feels appropriate. Our newsfeed minds are often diving in and self-ejecting out of intimate scenes from others' lives. Reading this book is akin to wandering around the authors homes, seeing if they've got any grand truths on the mantelpiece or in the basket on the landing. But there's often no lesson to be learned from solitude other than the experience of it. The hope carried in this book is that we can lean on fiction even beyond its breaking point - and our own - Republic of Consciousness Tools for Extinction grapples with the grief, trauma and anxiety of Covid-19 without presenting these phenomena as something entirely new. It is not a time capsule or a pandemic diary. It is not meant to be a record of an aberration to be read in libraries and schools in 2021 that look just like those of 2019. Tools for Extinction is meant to show that artists will have to adapt. The fact that the book came together in a few short months during a lockdown shows it can be done. And the resonance that the writing has for a reader still in lockdown shows that art still matters - Artist Books Reviews Tools for Extinction is acute literature. . . it signals the emergence of crisis-responsive fiction - Klaus Rothstein, Weekendavisen
Communicating Endangered Species
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Author : Eric Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-04
Communicating Endangered Species written by Eric Freedman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms. Extinction isn’t new. However, the pace of extinction is accelerating globally. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies more than 26,000 species as threatened. The causes are many, including climate change, overdevelopment, human exploitation, disease, overhunting, habitat destruction, and predators. The willingness and the ability of ordinary people, governments, scientists, nongovernmental organizations, and businesses to slow this deeply disturbing acceleration are uncertain. Meanwhile, researchers around the world are laboring to better understand and communicate the possibility and implications of extinctions and to discover effective tools and public policies to combat the threats to species survival. This book presents a history of news coverage of endangered species around the world, examining how and why journalists and other communicators wrote what they did, how attitudes have changed, and why they have changed. It draws on the latest research by chapter authors who are a mix of social scientists, communication experts, and natural scientists. Each chapter includes a mass media and/or cultural aspect. This book will be essential reading for students, natural resource managers, government officials, environmental activists, and academics interested in conservation and biodiversity, environmental communication and journalism, and public policy.
Mendel S Ark
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Author : Amy Lynn Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Mendel S Ark written by Amy Lynn Fletcher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Science categories.
Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to save species. Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation. Drawing upon sources ranging from science to science fiction, it focuses on the stories we tell about extinction and the meanings we ascribe to nature and technology. The use of biotechnology in conservation is redrawing the boundaries between animals and machines, nature and artifacts, and life and death. The new rhetoric and practice of de-extinction will thus have significant repercussions for wilderness and for society. The degree to which we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds.
Extinction Governance Finance And Accounting
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Author : Jill Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Extinction Governance Finance And Accounting written by Jill Atkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with Business & Economics categories.
The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction. Industries, companies, banks, investors, accountants and auditors have all played their role. This book explores how they can also provide a solution. The book presents plans, metrics, frameworks, mechanisms and financial innovations that can be, and are being, implemented through the financial markets in order to save and protect species, enhance biodiversity and, at the same time, preserve the financial markets and the business world. This biodiversity handbook addresses the intersection between species extinction and the global capitalist system. With contributions from leading non-governmental organisations such as the Capitals Coalition, Business for Nature, the Ecojustice Foundation, ShareAction and the Endangered Wildlife Trust, plus senior researchers in the field, as well as industry experts from Moody’s, EOS at Hermes Federated Investment Management, BlueBay Asset Management, ODDO BHF Asset Management and OSSIAM (to mention just a few), this book is at the forefront of addressing the crucially important topics of extinction accounting, finance and governance. Drawing on leading research, the book is written in an accessible style and is relevant to researchers and students in the fields of sustainability, governance, accounting, finance, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. It is essential reading for investors, responsible investors, bankers, business leaders and policy makers in the field of sustainable financial markets. Given the interdisciplinary nature of this book, it is useful to conservationists, ecologists and others involved in species and biodiversity protection.
The Extinction Market
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Author : Vanda Felbab Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
The Extinction Market written by Vanda Felbab Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Science categories.
The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate of extinction is now as much as 1000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. In addition to causing irretrievable biodiversity loss, wildlife trafficking also poses serious threats to public health, potentially triggering a global pandemic. The Extinction Market explores the causes, means, and consequences of poaching and wildlife trafficking, with a view to finding ways of suppressing them. Vanda Felbab-Brown travelled to the markets of Latin America, South and South East Asia, and eastern and southern Africa, to evaluate the effectiveness of various tools, including bans on legal trade, law enforcement, and interdiction; allowing legal supply from hunting or farming; alternative livelihoods; anti- money-laundering efforts; and demand reduction strategies. This is an urgent book offering meaningful solutions to one of the world's most pressing crises.
Book Of Extinction
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Author : Mage Hand Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-15
Book Of Extinction written by Mage Hand Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The Book of Extinction tells the real stories of the world's most famous extinct animals - the dodo, the thylacine, the saber-toothed tiger, and many more. As you learn about these lost species, they are revived as friends and foes using 5th Edition rules and reimagined as the magical, monstrous denizens of a fantasy world. Explore the haunted forests of Tasmania with the Tasmanian tiger, delve into the swamps of the American Southeast with the ivory-billed woodpecker, and climb Mt. Fuji alongside the Japanese wolf.Learn about ecology and conservation through the lens of roleplaying games. As a climate crisis unfolds before our very eyes, the Book of Extinction provides novel tools to confront topics such as overhunting and deforestation in a way no other RPG book has done before.
Extinctions
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Author : Michael J. Benton
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2023-09-28
Extinctions written by Michael J. Benton and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-28 with Science categories.
In this vast sweep of our Earths history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the cutting-edge tools in biology, chemistry, physics and geology that are transforming our understanding of previous environmental cataclysms including the incredible new discovery of a hitherto unknown extinction event he uncovers not only their lethal effects but also the processes that brought about such large-scale destruction. Beginning with the oldest extinction, Benton investigates the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the late Devonian, brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, which wiped out over 90 per cent of all life on Earth; and, book-ending the age of the dinosaurs, the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, the drastic consequences for global ecology, and how life in turn survived, adapted and evolved. This expert retelling of scientific breakthroughs allows us to link long-ago upheavals to our modern crises. As todays climate scientists and political leaders grapple to understand these processes and our planet enters the sixth great extinction, these insights from the past may hold the key to survival.
Science Vs Animal Extinction
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Author : Nick Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Science Vs Animal Extinction written by Nick Hunter and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Surviving in the wild can be tough, thankfully some of the most rare animals on the planet now have science on their side. Readers explore the science behind combating animal extinction in this exciting, high-interest volume. Readers will discover what science is doing to help keep endangered animals from disappearing altogether. A ‘winning or Losing?’ feature updates readers on the latest in man’s struggle with Mother Nature, while ‘Breaking Through’ chronicles the cutting edge science that gives our smartest scholars the tools necessary for victory.
Extinction And Memorial Culture
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Author : Hannah Stark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Extinction And Memorial Culture written by Hannah Stark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Extinct animals in art categories.
"This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices. In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene"--
Extinct
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Author : Lluis Cassany
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-21
Extinct written by Lluis Cassany and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with categories.
A gorgeously illustrated tribute to animals that no longer live on our planet, paired with information on how we can save future species This exploration of animals that we have lost over the past century, from the California grizzly to the Persian tiger, aims to create awareness and inspire children to act responsibly toward their environment. Each animal's story of how it came to extinction is told through graphically stunning illustrations and information packed spreads. Further scientific resources and profiles of animals that have been rediscovered or successfully reintroduced into the wild empower children with the knowledge and tools necessary to aid in conservation and encourage sustainability.