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Suite au développement rapide des biotechnologies dans les années 90, les ressources génétiques sont devenues de véritables enjeux industriels et commerciaux. Les entreprises pharmaceutiques, cosmétiques et agroalimentaires ont intensifié leurs activités de bioprospection, afin d'identifier de nouvelles ressources susceptibles de faire l'objet d'un développement industriel. Mais de la bioprospection à la biopiraterie, il n'y a parfois qu'un pas...

"Der Golfstrom: Vor der Eiszeit?" erkundet die potenzielle Umkehr des Golfstroms und dessen Auswirkungen auf Nordeuropas Klima. Das Buch verbindet wissenschaftliche Analyse und ethische Überlegungen, um die Bedeutung des Golfstroms, die Risiken einer Abschwächung und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen zu beleuchten. Es präsentiert innovative Lösungen wie den ISWEOS-Tower (lautlose Windturbine mit EU-Patent) und die "Autarke Energieversorgung" zur Bewältigung drohender Klimaveränderungen und ruft zu verantwortungsvollem Handeln und einem Dialog über den Schutz unseres Planeten auf.

This book provides novel perspectives to the ongoing global discussions on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Current knowledge on circular economy and the SDGs target in developing and emerging countries are mostly fragmented and empirical evidence is limited. The approach taken in the book is unique as it presents holistic viewpoints about the synergies, opportunities and challenges between circular economy and SDGs targets in developing and emerging countries. The book presents diverse contents on the topic including literature reviews, conceptual discussions, case studies, and empirical analysis.

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Nell'era dell'Antropocene, l'Italia è percorsa da nord a sud in un'esplorazione che dà voce alla storia naturale delle comunità umane, impressa nella geografia dei luoghi. E se quel che resta della natura selvaggia fosse intorno a noi? Forse basterebbe uscire per imparare a ri-conoscerla. Da qui parte Anthropica, lungo mille chilometri di penisola italiana, percorrendo in bicicletta un territorio costellato di meraviglie naturali ed emergenze ambientali. Una storia raccontata tra la sorprendente biodiversità celata dal cemento e la miriade di ecosistemi più prossimi a noi, e dunque più minacciati, integrando le dimensioni umana e naturale mediante l'ecologia. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

This volume analyzes cases from emerging economies in relation to the global endeavor to promote the vision of sustainable development in all forms of education. It aims to discuss the significance of hearing local voices and understanding local discourse regarding strategies for action for change, and the role of educational systems as a means to communicate, promote and educate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).In this book, emerging economies are defined as newly industrialized countries that have not yet reached developed status, but have, in a macro-economic sense, outpaced their developing counterparts. In this context, the book highlights how education in emerging economies could extend conventional economic methods to sustainability issues, or depart from money-based calculations and business-dominated values to promotion of real-life considerations and ethical, environmental and humanistic values.With the help of this volume, readers will have a chance to look at educational response, inclusion and empowerment for SDGs in countries with emerging economies, and to grasp the synthesis of Education for Sustainable Development/Global Citizenship Education (ESD/GCE) within the overall national educational systems. This volume focuses on early childhood through upper secondary education.

Against the idea of social contract theories that suggest humans invented the political, Gerard Kuperus argues that we have always been political and that our species came into existence in a world that was already political. By studying the rich social and political lives of other animals, Ecopolitics provides suggestions for how to think and feel differently about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and the places and beings around us. Kuperus suggests we understand ourselves as part of an ecopolitical community consisting of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects. By recognizing nature itself as utterly political and seeing ourselves as a part of this larger political unity, we can come to face the real challenges of our times. This means that we are not simply putting ourselves in nature as we are. We are also changing who we are.

This volume investigates crucial ways in which nature has been apprehended, understood and valued in different cultures and over time. It is grounded in current global concerns about growing threats to the natural environment. Through a critical appraisal of specific examples, it ranges widely over historical and contemporary attitudes and behaviours.It presents a wide ranging analysis of selected ideas and attitudes in the evolution mainly of western civilisation, from the time of the cave artists to the present day. It argues for preservation and conservation of the natural resources and beauty of the earth in the face of religious supernatural arguments and the rise of consumer capitalism and consumerism.

What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author's daughter, this collection presents ethical questions outdoor enthusiasts regularly face as they work and play in the natural world. The essays in this book explore environmentalism in a modern-day context, with topics including sustainability education, the current relevance of environmental writers from the past, and the uncertainty of what is meant by words like "naturalist," "solitude," and "wilderness." There is no attempt to direct readers to any particular environmental philosophy. Instead, Simpson encourages readers to articulate their own perspective based on personal experiences in nature. Though Essays to My Daughter is written by a father to his daughter, the insights within the volume-and the questions they provoke-are valuable to all members of the next generation as they grapple with their own relationship to the natural world.

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Earth Systems Protection and Sustainability authorises imperatives to achieve sustainability and protect our threatened and vulnerable Earth. Mathematical advances in context incorporate operational and Boolean, as well as linguistic, logic-based Bayesian, and generative methods for scenario formation. Functional areas and deeper learning enable the use of searching algorithms, proffering optimal solutions for the circular nature of sustainability in natural ecosystems and human dominated settings. Key informative nodes are provided in the hope that we may moderate the very real dangers facing planet Earth and its biodiversity. An arena of insightful chapters is blended with social resilience and socio-economic development coverage, accentuating integrity, protection and sustainability within divergent climatic forces and species dynamics on Earth. Volume 2 focuses on bioaccumulation; climate change and resiliencefor co-operative socio-economic and ecosystem management via policy frameworks across sectors; mathematical modelling of freshwater in coastal regions in arid and semi-arid zones; decision making in natural disasters; peat solidification for environmentally sustainable geotechnical engineering; green energy conversion; flood risk mapping; rainfall analysis; exposure, safety, and security amidst increasing environmental contamination; remote handling vehicles; wind turbines; and deep learning and its environmental applications. Earth Systems Protection and Sustainability is addressed globally to communities, schools and researchers in professional, governmental and unit operations; descriptive and illustrative sections include all sectors to ensure Earth Systems Protection as our capacity reaches an unsustainable climax.

The merger of two successful events to form the 30th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air and Water Pollution provided the papers that are published in this volume.Many important air pollution issues are discussed, demonstrating the widespread nature of the air pollution phenomena and the in-depth exploration required to address their impacts on human health and the environment.The scientific knowledge derived from well-designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies in order to ensure cost-effective and efficient mitigation. In turn, the science, technology and economic outcomes are necessary but not sufficient. The outcome of such research needs to be contextualised within well-formulated communication strategies that help policymakers and citizens to understand and appreciate the risks and rewards arising from air pollution management.In addition, the topic of Water Pollution is discussed in a number of contexts across different areas of water contamination.The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads discharged into natural water bodies requires the formation of a framework for regulation and control. This framework needs to be based on scientific results that relate pollutant discharge with changes in water quality. The results of these studies allow the industry to apply more efficient methods of controlling and treating waste loads, and water authorities to enforce appropriate regulations regarding this matter.Environmental problems are essentially interdisciplinary. Engineers and scientists working in this field must be familiar with a wide range of issues including the physical processes of mixing and dilution, chemical and biological processes, mathematical modelling, data acquisition and measurement, to name but a few. In view of the scarcity of available data, it is important that experiences are shared on an international basis. Thus, a continuous exchange of information between scientists from different countries is essential.

Le mouvement écologique brésilien, méconnu bien que très puissant, a connu plusieurs phases évolutives. Schématiquement, des années 1980 aux années 2000, un agrégat de mouvements socio-environnementaux émerge, pour aboutir à la formation du Parti Vert. Celui-ci intègre de nombreuses problématiques identitaires et socio-économiques, qu'a su rendre plus légitime la victoire du Parti des Travailleurs. Enfin, depuis 2004, le cyberactivisme et les nouvelles formes de mobilisation collective obligent l'écologie politique à se repenser.

Volete conoscere la vera storia dell'industria petrolifera?Le multinazionali del petrolio hanno distrutto il nostro pianeta e la nostra società per anni, ed è ora che tutti noi sappiamo la verità. Questo libro espone i danni che hanno fatto e come continuano a ingannare la società facendo credere di essere responsabili nei confronti dell'ambiente con le loro tattiche di greenwashing.Big Oil. Le multinazionali che distruggono il nostro pianeta, il clima e l'economia mentre realizzano profitti folli. Rovinano le economie e alimentano i conflitti. Sovvenzionano i combustibili fossili e trivellano gli ecosistemi più sensibili del pianeta e sono responsabili dell'inquinamento di fiumi, laghi, mari e oceani.Le Big Oil sono responsabili dell'accelerazione dello scioglimento dell'Artico. La loro unica strategia di uscita è continuare a fare quello che stanno facendo finché non ci sarà più nulla da trivellare, estrarre o bruciare. Ma non possiamo permettergli di farla franca ancora a lungo. Dobbiamo assumerci la responsabilità dei danni che hanno causato e ritenerli responsabili. È ora di porre fine all'era delle grandi compagnie petrolifere.Svegliatevi e chiedete una strategia di uscita che vada a beneficio di tutti, non solo dell'1%. Questo libro è una lettura obbligata per chiunque voglia capire il vero costo del petrolio. Una volta letto, sarete indignati per la distruzione causata da queste compagnie e vorrete fare qualcosa. Tutti noi possiamo fare la differenza sensibilizzando l'opinione pubblica e opponendoci alle Big Oil.Acquistate oggi stesso " I Peccati di Grande Petrolio"!

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How can Australia increase its capacity to adapt to a world in accelerated climate change?This ground-breaking report will equip leaders with insights to better understand what they need to do to decarbonise their organisations to reach Australia's 2030 and 2050 emissions targets.Those fascinating insights are the result of the Australia 2030 Research(c) that involved 539 leaders - 183 to which were directors and CEOs of organisations across 15 industry sectors.The leaders' 'To Do' check list includes:Measures to establish: Many organisations are yet to establish their environmental strategies, policies, and programs.Investment to undertake: This leaves organisations exposed by under investment in the enabling technologies before they can further benefit from emerging technologies.Emissions baseline to establish: Organisations need to urgently commence and deploy measures across their organisations to establish a carbon emissions baseline.Decision integration to occur: Those measures will enable decision making to become more integrated across strategic and execution considerations.Shift to strategy driven: This will assist organisations evolve their environmental goal-setting maturity from principally being Compliance and Risk Driven, to Strategy-Driven.Stakeholder reputation to uphold: With that development, organisations will then be much better equipped to influence all stakeholder groups with their investments in their environmental programs.There are important insights to discover, compelling comment and content to consider. Professor Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist, media commentator, international keynote speaker and author of internationally recognised emerging technology research. His advice on strategy is sought after by boards and leadership teams including Fortune 100 corporations. For more information see www.rockyscopelliti.com.

This book documents strategies for universities engaging sustainability challenges through the education of global citizens on topics such as climate change, habitat alteration, species loss, resource depletion and contamination, food access and sovereignty, economic equity, and energy use. Different disciplines and operational units often have disparate ideas in mind when they work toward advancing sustainability. For example, some disciplines focus on environmental challenges (identifying impacts to ecosystems, mitigation and remediation strategies), some on greening of industrial and commercial practices while others address social equity-often there is little effort to connect these pieces especially while considering economic impacts. This book examines how Florida Gulf Coast University has attempted to infuse sustainability across curricula and operations as an integrated concept and our successes and shortcomings are instructional for sustainability practitioners on college campuses and other industries in a wide audience.

An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England's settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virtue. In contrast to the celebration of libertarian ideals and the general distrust of government regulation characterizing the writings of many prominent modern agrarian writers who follow the tradition of Jefferson and the Southern agrarians, An Agrarian Proposal explores how faith-based commitments shared among colonial New England's settlers resulted in resource distribution and stewardship practices that created a sustainable approach to land and resource management. An Agrarian Proposal adds to contemporary considerations of the ethics and practices of agrarianism by exploring a time and place where regulation was deemed a necessary means of fostering good land stewardship and where a faith-based communitarianism challenged individualism to promote sustainable land practices by individuals farming New England's rocky and isolated fields.

Silver Medal, 2023 Nautilus Book Awards in the category of Ecology and Environment<BR><BR>Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. More than that, we all-from humans to plants to bacteria-share a planet. We are all Earthlings.<BR><BR>Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of Earthling life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth. In a series of meditations, Earthlings portrays the wonder and beauty of life with deep feeling, vivid detail, and an activist spirit. Parr invites readers to travel among the trees of the Amazonian rainforest; take flight with birds and butterflies migrating through the skies; and plunge into the oceans with whales and polar bears-as well as to encounter bodies infected with deadly viruses and maimed by the violence of global capitalism.<BR><BR>Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.