Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This is a topical analysis of ecology movements in contemporary society and the conflicts generated over vital natural resources. The focus is on the social contradictions emerging in India in the wake of these conflicts and the author takes a Third World perspective to discuss the way in which ecology movements have questioned the dominant concepts of economic development.
Author : Hans Toch
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781557981769
"Living in Prison: The Ecology of Survival" makes a contribution to environmental psychology from a transactional perspective. From a series of some 900 interviews with prisoners and staff in New York correctional institutions, Toch and his colleagues identified eight areas of predominant inmate concern: privacy, activity, structure, support, emotional feedback, social stimulation, activity, and freedom. On the basis of these dimensions, an innovative psychological instrument, the Prison Preference Inventory, was developed and administered to 2,650 inmates in five major prison systems. The analysis of these data leads to a consideration of the match between inmate and setting, as well as valuable suggestions for the improvement of person-environment transactions in prisons and in other human environments.
Author : Pan Wenshi
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1935623303
From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was conducted during a significant transition period in Chinese history, as the country opened its society and science to the world. The project focused on behavioral observation of wild giant pandas, but evolved to include physiology, nutrition, ecology, land-use policy, and population biology as the staff became more aware that the issues with captive pandas (assisted reproduction, unusual diet, and genetic inbreeding) were not the most critical to survival of wild populations. It is evident in this work that, as the scientists gained knowledge, they came to see giant panda conservation as wrapped in landscape ecology and human/wildlife interactions. The group was seminal in the Chinese government's enactment of a logging ban to their study area by advocating for pandas at the national level. The project was summarized in a 2001 volume, but its publication in Mandarin limited its influence on the greater conservation community. This English version of the original work translates, condenses, and refines the original volume, with added contextual chapters on the importance of this volume and how our understanding of giant panda conservation is shaped by this pioneering field work.
Author : Douglas Hamilton Johnson
Publisher : British Academic Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9781870915007
The contribitors to this volume argue that any solutions to Africa's ecological problems must be based on a broad understanding of the historical patterns of ecological change and the interactions between human societies and the environment. Using case studies, they explore the anthropological and historical aspects of ecological problems in Northeast Africa and suggest ways in which policy-makers might take account of this approach.
Author : Laurence Pringle
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Ecology
ISBN :
Summary: An introduction to the basic principles of ecology such as natural cycles, population patterns, ecosystems, biomes, and natural and man-made environmental changes.
Author : Joseph W. Meeker
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
With imagination and flair, the author also introduces the idea of a play ethic, as opposed to a work ethic, and demonstrates the importance of play as a necessary and desirable component of the comic spirit. The Comedy of Survival is a book for literary critics, environmentalists, human ecologists, philosophers, and anthropologists. General readers, too, will find much to ponder in the author's clear explication of how all of us might become better stewards of this, our home planet Earth.
Author : Hans Toch
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book illuminates the relationship that links environments to the persons who must live and work in them. By presenting the maximum security prison as a living environment, and illustrating the personal impact prisons have on individual inmates, Hans Toch, who is a psychologist with many years of research experience in "real life" settings, shows us how men adapt to stressful stimuli. He also provides a blueprint for reform--a practical solution to the problem of making prisons, and other settings, more effective and more humane.
Author : Douglas H Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000316157
This book is concerned with evaluating the antiquity of the domestication changes in northern Africa, considering the nature of the environments in which they arose, their social implications and the influence of climatic change on their later progress.
Author : Stephen Molnar
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9780131760417
This book looks at human ecology by examining the linkages between human actions and environmental inputs. A historical context traces demographic and cultural developments through a series of demographic landmarks, and provides a balance to the book's survey of recent and contemporary populations. Chapter topics include ecological concepts; demographic landmarks of a successful species; technology, development and population; and health, disease, and diet. For active participants in the world we live in, who understand that our survival of environmental and social changes depends upon a clearer understanding of populations, society, and their adaptations.
Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1107071569
This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
