Conflictos ambientales en Colombia. Retos y perspectivas desde el enfoque de DDHH y la participación ciudadana se articula en tres partes: en la primera se realiza un panorama de conflictos ambientales en las diferentes regiones naturales del país desde la perspectiva de la participación ciudadana. En la segunda se exponen las diferentes reflexiones de las autoridades ambientales locales y de las organizaciones sociales sobre los conflictos ambientales...

"Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change--accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to...

"Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our own health and the planet's, many still can't be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments, scientific data, and information aren't working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back--imagining...

In Proud to Be Right, Jonah Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling author of Liberal Fascism, presents voices of the next Conservative generation. A fresh and provocative collection of lively political writing from right wing writers under the age of 30, Proud to Be Right rebuts the conventional wisdom that Generation Y is a uniformly liberal demographic-and that intelligent young people today fall blindly into the Barack Obama camp.

Aff ecting millions of people worldwide, global warming is one of today's most timely and vital topics. It's an issue that's been studied, written about, and debated by scientists and lay people alike. But in Beyond Global Warming, engineer John Durbin Husher argues that we have an even bigger problem on our hands' and shows us what we need to do about it. In Beyond Global Warming, Husher looks at the origins and causes of global warming and delivers...

Examines how the animal/human divide has influenced power dynamics. The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power-political science and theory-has had little to say about the animal/human. This book seeks to amend this vast oversight....

El colapso ecológico –y el discurso que insiste con la catástrofe planetaria– se han vuelto parte de nuestro sentido común. En esta antología, Eduardo Galeano propone una mirada alternativa, que es en realidad una constante en toda su obra, para acercarnos al mismo problema: nos recuerda nuestro vínculo insoslayable con la naturaleza, explora su riqueza y sus formas de resistencia, y hasta señala con alarma nuestra tenacidad urbana y "moderna"...

Chaque jours, nous transgressons les limites planétaires et détruisons nos conditions d'existence sur Terre. La pandémie, comme les catastrophes climatiques, sont autant de coups de semonce de la menace qui plane sur notre espèce. Pourtant, face au désespoir ambiant, nous avons le droit de rêver à un futur joyeux, et surtout les moyens de le concrétiser. Avec un nouveau plafond écologique et un vrai plancher social, nous pourrons apprendre...

Este libro pretende dar una mirada sobre el proceso general que da origen a los servicios ambientales, desde su inicio solar y su incidencia en la biodiversidad, en el bienestar humano y en los flujos de energía de los ecosistemas. Enfatiza en la relación entre el hombre y el agua, exponiendo ideas fundamentales en la gestión hídrica y la calidad hidroecológica como herramienta para la toma de decisiones y la formulación de políticas públicas....

An authoritative, incisive explanation of the causes and current status of hostilities around the world. The world today rests on increasingly unstable fault lines. From the conflict in Ukraine or fresh upheavals in the Middle East to the threats posed to humanity by a global pandemic, climate change, and natural disasters, the world's danger zones once again draw their battle lines across our hyper-connected, yet fragmented, globe. In this revised...