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La Part inconstructible de la Terre. Critique du géo-constructivisme

Autor: Frédéric Neyrat

Número de Páginas: 292

La conquête de l'espace est terminée ? Non, une nouvelle planète est apparue : la Terre. Ce livre nous fait entrer dans le monde inquiétant des apprentis-sorciers et des puissants businessmen qui rêvent d'une Terre post-naturelle qu'on pourrait reconstruire et piloter grâce aux prouesses d'une ingénierie absolue. Frédéric Neyrat nous conduit au cœur de la pensée constructiviste qui domine aujourd'hui les sciences humaines et sociales, de Philippe Descola à Bruno Latour. Ce courant a abattu la césure nature-culture pour la remplacer par une nature hybride, toujours anthropisée et intégrée dans les réseaux technico-financiers. Et si, en déniant toute altérité à la nature, cette approche n'était que le prêt-à-penser du projet géo-constructiviste d'une Terre 2.0 ? Réinterrogeant le rapport nature-culture, et critiquant le mythe fusionnel de toute-puissance technologique, l'auteur propose alors une nouvelle philosophie de la nature et de la Terre : une écologie de la séparation, en prenant acte de ce qui n'est pas constructible dans la nature et en reconnaissant la Terre dans sa singularité. Frédéric Neyrat, philosophe, est professeur dans le département ...

Entre el hielo y el fuego. Verdades y mitos del cambio climático

Autor: Carlos Javier Alonso

Número de Páginas: 216

El debate sobre el cambio climático suele polarizarse entre ecoalarmistas, que alertan de consecuencias catastróficas y exigen medidas drásticas, y climoescépticos, que niegan su existencia o su origen antropogénico. Esta pugna alimenta narrativas simplistas en los medios, donde todo se reduce a un enfrentamiento entre bandos irreconciliables. A ellas se suma una tercera vía que, reconociendo el cambio climático, enfatiza sus posibles beneficios y prioriza la adaptación sobre la mitigación. Sus defensores citan efectos positivos como el reverdecimiento del planeta, la reducción de muertes por frío o la apuesta por fuentes energéticas estables, limpias y seguras. El futuro no está escrito, pero la historia de la humanidad revela un patrón constante: nuestra capacidad para adaptarnos, innovar y superar desafíos parece no conocer límites.

Atomic Dreams

Autor: Rebecca Tuhus-dubrow

Número de Páginas: 293

The inside story of how nuclear energy—long considered scary, controversial, and even apocalyptic—has become the hot topic of the climate debate, and perhaps a vital power source of the future On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. The plan was hailed by environmental groups and politicians around the country. Then, in 2022, the state’s Democratic establishment suddenly reversed the decision, and in 2024 the Biden-Harris administration awarded the plant $1.1 billion in credits to extend its life. What happened in between? In Atomic Dreams, journalist and lifelong environmentalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow unearths the surprising answers—and the deep-seated conflicts behind them. She follows the fascinating and lively cast of characters who are immersed in the fight over Diablo Canyon and nuclear energy, among them a world-renowned climate scientist, a fashion model turned “nuclear influencer,” and two radically opposed groups of mothers, both fiercely advocating for the kind of planet they want their children to inherit. And she chronicles how nuclear power has morphed...

Front Street

Autor: Brian Barth

Número de Páginas: 306

"This heartfelt debut study from journalist Barth offers a window into Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments . . . [An] up-close, multifaceted representation of an unhoused community." —Publishers Weekly In his first book, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on an immersive journey deep into Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments, challenging everything we thought we knew about our unhoused neighbors. In this wide-reaching portrait of the constellation of people living in tents, shacks, and cars in the shadow of tech campuses and skyscrapers, award-winning journalist Brian Barth introduces us to the misfits, activists, and iconoclasts of Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments. Blending memoir, investigative reporting, history, and cultural criticism to paint a portrait of a community searching for dignity and connection in the midst of a national crisis, Front Street is a conversation-changing story about the struggle for housing. This immersive work follows residents of three distinct camps—Crash Zone in San Jose, Wood Street in Oakland, and Wolfe Camp in Cupertino. Regularly harassed by police and local government, and frequently at risk of often...

Shellenbarger Family

Autor: Madge Hale Mckellar

Número de Páginas: 296

Ulrich Shallenberger was born in 1694 in Switzerland and immigrated in 1727 via Holland to Pennsylvania. He had married Katrina Dorothea Barbara Stickler in 1719, and settled in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. He died in 1760 or 1768.

Pennsylvania Archives

Autor: Samuel Hazard , John Blair Linn , William Henry Egle , George Edward Reed , Thomas Lynch Montgomery , Gertrude Mackinney , Charles Francis Hoban

Número de Páginas: 806

A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.

Hands-on Environmentalism

Autor: Brent M. Haglund , Thomas W. Still

Número de Páginas: 208

The political environmentalism of the past 35 years was born of necessity: business as usual was not protecting the air, water and land. Brent Haglund and Thomas Still believe that the regulatory actions of the 1960s and 1970s were essential medicine for a careless society. But over time, the cure became something of a disease itself, a command-and-control system that widened the gulf between people and the natural world they live in. Writing for those who want to move past the environmental nanny state and reach the next level of stewardship, Haglund and Still describe a civic environmentalism based on local control, personal responsibility, government accountability and economic opportunity. They offer success stories demonstrating that civic environmentalism works. In Louisiana, private landowners formed the Black Bear Conservation Committee to restore the black bear from near extinction while avoiding an endangered species designation that would have constricted property rights. In Arizona, the White Mountain Apache tribe uses income from hunting licenses to fund an innovative wildlife management program that fosters economic development. In Wisconsin, the last dam was removed ...

The Ecological Revolution

Autor: John Bellamy Foster

Número de Páginas: 336

The roots of the present ecological crisis, Foster argues, lie in capital's rapacious expansion, which has now achieved unprecedented heights of irrationality across the globe. Foster demonstrates that the only possible answer for humanity is an ecological revolution: a struggle to make peace with the planet. Foster details the beginnings of such a revolution in human relations with the environment which can now be found throughout the globe, especially in the periphery of the world system, where the most ambitious experiments are taking place. From publisher description.

Environmental Regulation

Autor: Robert V. Percival

Número de Páginas: 1256

Examines policies that focus on the substance of environmental statutes, how they are translated into regulations, and on the factors that affect how they influence real-world behavior. This book offers teaching and study aids, real-world-based problems and questions, pathfinders explaining where to locate crucial source materials, and more.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming

Autor: Steven I. Dutch

Número de Páginas: 464

Designed to provide students at the high school and undergraduate levels with a convenient source of information on the fundamental science and sociopolitical issues, including the debates and controversies, surrounding climate change. The study of climate change involves not only scientists but also politicians, policy makers, businesses, government and nongovernment agencies, and the general public. A student attempting to understand both the environmental science and social issues and controversies will encounter not just scientific terms and concepts but political organizations, geographic areas, social concepts, persons, countries, organizations, and laws as well. The essays in the set fall into one or more of the following broad categories: animals, Arctic and Antarctic, astronomy, chemistry and geochemistry, climatic events and epochs, conferences and meetings, cryology and glaciology, diseases and health effects, economics, industries, and products, energy, environmentalism, conservation, and ecosystems, ethics, human rights, and social justice, fossil fuels, geology and geography, laws, treaties, and protocols, meteorology and atmospheric sciences, nations and peoples,...

State of Innovation

Autor: Fred L. Block , Matthew R. Keller

Número de Páginas: 374

Provides an account of the depth, magnitude, and structure of the U.S. government's role in the innovation economy. A cross-disciplinary group of authors collectively document, theorize, and evaluate the decentralized set of agencies, programs, and policies at the core of the collaborative linkages between public agencies and the private industries at the forefront of the U.S. economy. The authors address issues critical to the construction of newly responsible, forward-looking public policies: how can we forge an innovation policy that is at once flexible, effective and efficient, as well as transparent and accountable? They provide insights into "where innovations come from" and what government policies support a dynamic innovation economy. They show how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation in the U.S. economy over the last four decades, despite the strength of "free market" political rhetoric. They explore the strengths and weaknesses of different policies and strategies for strengthening the innovative dynamics that support economic growth and competitiveness, offering a vision for designing technology policies to fit a 21st century...

Beyond Green

Autor: Stephanie Smith , David And Alfred Smart Museum Of Art

Número de Páginas: 164

Exploring the ways in which sustainable development is being used by an emerging group of artists who combine fresh aesthetic sensibilities with constructively critical approaches to the production, dissemination, and display of their art, this book considers environmental issues in the context of art and design.

Environmental Law and the Values of Nature

Autor: Richard J. Finkmoore

Número de Páginas: 1128

This casebook provides students in introductory environmental law courses with the broad understanding necessary to practice in the field and a firm foundation for subsequent course work in specialized environmental subjects. In addition to covering many standard topics such as NEPA and the Clean Water Act, this book emphasizes natural resources law, including water allocation, species conservation, and federal public land management. Unlike many casebooks, it also examines energy issues, climate change, sustainable development, and the environmental movement. This distinctive book uses the historical development of environmental and natural resources law as a helpful context within which to understand the modern law in these fields. It also incorporates eight engaging case studies showing the application of environmental law in the real world. The volume includes significant excerpts from the major environmental statutes so that it is not necessary to assign a statutory supplement. Thought-provoking readings from, for example, Lewis and Clark, Marsh, Muir, Udall, Wilkinson, Sax, Lazarus, Rodgers, Shabecoff, Hays, E.O. Wilson, Leopold, Reisner, and Speth, enhance student insight....

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