Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World
Editat de Helena Benderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781107688667
ISBN-10: 1107688663
Pagini: 426
Ilustrații: 83 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
Dimensiuni: 203 x 254 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia
ISBN-10: 1107688663
Pagini: 426
Ilustrații: 83 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
Dimensiuni: 203 x 254 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia
Cuprins
Foreword Ian Lowe; Introduction: reshaping environments: an opportunity for envisioning the future Helena Bender; Part I. Cases: 1. Costa Rica's dry north-west: a region in transition Blythe McLennan; 2. Reshaping land transport in Singapore: a policy perspective Sun Sheng Han; 3. Evaluating different ways of managing forested landscapes Kathryn Williams, Rebecca Ford, Ian Bishop and Eric Smith; 4. Changing the landscape management paradigm with farmers: a story of community-based resource management in the 'Heartbreak Hills', Victoria, Australia Ruth Beilin; 5. Meeting development goals without blowing your carbon budget Graham Moore; 6. The EGLE has landed: architecture reshaping schools for sustainable and effective learning Dominique Hes; 7. Reshaping the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: progress in river basin management Michael Stewardson and Edward Maltby; 8. Burning questions: researching the meaning of fire in the Australian landscape Blythe McLennan and Ruth Beilin; Part II. Skills: 9. Critique, analysis and reflection: the study of reshaping environments Anna Bailey; 10. Working with complex issues in group situations Roger Hadgraft and Helena Bender; 11. Research methodology Kate Judith; Part III. Theory: 12. An interdisciplinary approach Clinton Golding; 13. Reshaping the environment: how complexity, post-normal science, uncertainty and risk help to conceptualise change Ruth Beilin; 14. Sustainability: a model for the future Helena Bender, Kate Judith and Ruth Beilin; 15. Human needs, wants and norms: some concepts for exploring sustainable human-environment relationships Kathryn Williams; 16. Conceptualising and thinking about environmental systems Graham Moore; 17. Why scale matters Blythe McLennan and Graham Moore.
Descriere
An interdisciplinary textbook that incorporates case material and theoretical tools for the Earth changers of today and tomorrow.