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Island Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainability

Posted By: AvaxGenius
Date: 12 May 2023 10:13:28
Island Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainability

Island Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainability by Stephen J. Walsh, Carlos F. Mena, Jill R. Stewart, Juan Pablo Muñoz Pérez
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 510 Pages | ISBN : 3031280881 | 88.3 MB

Sustainable development is a process to improve the quality of life of people, while maintaining the ability of social–ecological systems to continue to provide valuable ecological services that social systems require. In the Galapagos Islands, the maintenance of amenity resources to support tourism and the quality of life of residents is explicitly linked to ecosystem goods and services, particularly, the accessibility to high-quality natural environments and the terrestrial and marine visitation sites that showcase iconic species.
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Infrastructural Being: Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world

Posted By: AvaxGenius
Date: 6 Dec 2022 08:38:31
Infrastructural Being: Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world

Infrastructural Being: Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world by Jarno Valkonen, Veera Kinnunen, Heikki Huilaja, Teemu Loikkanen
English | PDF | 2022 | 217 Pages | ISBN : 3031158261 | 3.8 MB

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the inherent messiness of the lived world and the inseparability of social and biophysical elements. Concept of naturecultures stresses that seemingly “natural” is always simultaneously “cultural” and vice versa. This approach allows fleshing out the messy engagements with infrastructures, which in this book is conceptualized as infrastructural being.
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Domestication in Action: Past and Present Human-Reindeer Interaction in Northern Fennoscandia

Posted By: AvaxGenius
Date: 28 May 2022 22:51:20
Domestication in Action: Past and Present Human-Reindeer Interaction in Northern Fennoscandia

Domestication in Action: Past and Present Human-Reindeer Interaction in Northern Fennoscandia by Anna-Kaisa Salmi
English | EPUB | 2022 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 303098642X | 27.5 MB

Reindeer have been an integral part of the lives of people in Northern Fennoscandia in prehistoric and historic times. Today, reindeer herding practices are changing fast due to climate change, land use pressures and new technologies.
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Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions: The Interdependence of Local and Global

Posted By: Underaglassmoon
Date: 1 Jan 2022 20:46:17
Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions: The Interdependence of Local and Global

Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions: The Interdependence of Local and Global
Routledge | English | 2022 | ISBN-10: 0367632845 | 242 pages | PDF | 26.40 MB

by Rita Sørly (Author), Tony Ghaye (Author), Bård Kårtveit (Author)
This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.
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