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The anthropocene cookbook :recipes and opportunities for future catastrophes
"The Anthropocene Cookbook is by far the most comprehensive collection of ideas about future food from the perspective of art, design, and science. The book is unique in the way it connects food, art, thinking, and science. It talks to the new generation of aesthetically aware environmentalists. It promotes ecological thinking from a radically different perspective: what happens if we embrace t…
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- 9780262371643
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The politics of rights of nature :strategies for building a more sustainable …
"On the global development of legislation, treaty negotiations, constitutional measures, and litigation resulting in legal recognition of Rights of Nature (RoN), including the cultural and political influences that determined how these legal rights were framed, the method of adoption and, importantly, the evolution of RoN enforcement through judicial decisions and growing cultural familiarity w…
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- 0262366606
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To know the world :a new vision for environmental learning
"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-…
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- 0262361043
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- 1 online resource.
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Animal beauty :on the evolution of biological aesthetics
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty" The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in a…
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- 9780262353359
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- 1 online resource (128 pages) :illustrations
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Seeing the forest and the trees :human-environment interactions in forest eco…
'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280150
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Rethinking innateness :a connectionist perspective on development
"A Bradford book."Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet they are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.…
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- 0585020345
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) :illustrations.
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Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
Communication Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); R & D/Technology Policy
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- 9789812873811
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Human Minds and Animal Stories : How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands …
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- 9780429590054
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- 200 halaman
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- 800 MAL h
Rewilding European Landscapes
Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas. This book proposes that this land abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural ecosystems via rewilding. We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long-term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes.…
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- 978-3-319-12039-3
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Aquatic Ecosystem: Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
This book brings together the latest information on the rapid advances and developments in the field of aquatic ecology. India is very rich in terms of biological diversity due to its wide range of habitats and climatic conditions. It is home to as much as 7 per cent of the world’s animal species, although it only accounts for about 2 per cent of the total landmass. The present work on biodiv…
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- 978-81-322-2178-4
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- XI, 333
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- 628.13 AQU a
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