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The Future of Nature
Author | : Libby Robin,Sverker Sorlin,Paul Warde |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780300184617 |
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DIVAn innovative anthology that offers a global perspective on how people think about predicting the future of life on Earth/div
The Nature of the Future
Author | : Emily Pawley |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226820026 |
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"In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--
Technological Nature
Author | : Peter H. Kahn, Jr. |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-02-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262294836 |
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Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology. Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but increasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watching digital nature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games. And they play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago, hunters could "telehunt"—shoot and kill animals in Texas from a computer anywhere in the world via a Web interface. Does it matter that much of our experience with nature is mediated and augmented by technology? In Technological Nature, Peter Kahn argues that it does, and shows how it affects our well-being. Kahn describes his investigations of children's and adults' experiences of cutting-edge technological nature. He and his team installed "technological nature windows" (50-inch plasma screens showing high-definition broadcasts of real-time local nature views) in inside offices on his university campus and assessed the physiological and psychological effects on viewers. He studied children's and adults' relationships with the robotic dog AIBO (including possible benefits for children with autism). And he studied online "telegardening" (a pastoral alternative to "telehunting"). Kahn's studies show that in terms of human well-being technological nature is better than no nature, but not as good as actual nature. We should develop and use technological nature as a bonus on life, not as its substitute, and re-envision what is beautiful and fulfilling and often wild in essence in our relationship with the natural world.
The Future of Nature
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publsiher | : World as Home |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105123315447 |
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A collection of writings by such contributors as Ursula Le Guin, David Orr, and Mark Dowie evaluates the role of human nature as both a key and obstacle in achieving environmental goals, in a volume that explores such topics as America's incarnation society, spiritual ecology, and the military-industrial landscape.
Nature Action and the Future
Author | : Katrina Forrester,Sophie Smith |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107199286 |
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Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.
The Future of Human Nature
Author | : Jürgen Habermas |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780745694115 |
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Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its biological evolution in its own hands. ‘Playing God’ is the metaphor commonly used for this self-transformation of the species, which, it seems, might soon be within our grasp. In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas – the most influential philosopher and social thinker in Germany today – takes up the question of genetic engineering and its ethical implications and subjects it to careful philosophical scrutiny. His analysis is guided by the view that genetic manipulation is bound up with the identity and self-understanding of the species. We cannot rule out the possibility that knowledge of one’s own hereditary factors may prove to be restrictive for the choice of an individual’s way of life and may undermine the symmetrical relations between free and equal human beings. In the concluding chapter – which was delivered as a lecture on receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for 2001 – Habermas broadens the discussion to examine the tension between science and religion in the modern world, a tension which exploded, with such tragic violence, on September 11th.
The Nature of Tomorrow
Author | : Michael Rawson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780300255195 |
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"A history of the stories that have been told in Western culture about the future. These predictions generally look forward to all the ways humans will transform the earth using advanced science and technology, and they frequently anticipate endless growth on a finite planet. The global environmental crisis now reflects these centuries-old ingrained expectations. Only by understanding how these stories developed can we hope to create new ones that can guide us to a truly sustainable civilization"--
Planetary Health
Author | : Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2020-08-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781610919661 |
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Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are authored by widely recognized experts. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world. Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new challenges their profession must confront, while those in the environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive guide to this vital field.