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Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place

From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture

by Todd LeVasseur ...

Series series SUNY series on Religion and the Environment
Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion categoryWriting at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics,... ... Read more

$33.29 USD

Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion categoryWriting at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics,...
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Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future

by Todd LeVasseur ...

Series series Studies in Body and Religion
This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, and performance studies the book ... Read more

$33.19 USD

This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, and performance studies the book
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Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore, 'the Garden City'

Edited by Todd LeVasseur ...

Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
This book offers a critical ecolinguistics case study of an entire city nation, Singapore, and of the stories told about and by it internationally in relation to its efforts of sustainability, response to climate change, and commitment to ecomodernity.It explores several key questions: How will humans live in urban areas in the decades to come? How will these efforts be impacted by climate change ... Read more

$105.99 USD

This book offers a critical ecolinguistics case study of an entire city nation, Singapore, and of the stories told about and by it internationally in relation to its efforts of sustainability, response to climate change, and commitment to ecomodernity.It explores several key questions: How will humans live in urban areas in the decades to come? How will these efforts be impacted by climate change
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Religion and Ecological Crisis

The “Lynn White Thesis” at Fifty

Edited by Todd LeVasseur, Anna Peterson ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts that if we are to halt, let alone revert, anthropogenic damages to the environment, we need to ... Read more

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In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts that if we are to halt, let alone revert, anthropogenic damages to the environment, we need to
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Communicating in the Anthropocene

Intimate Relations

by C. Vail Fletcher, Carol Adams, Paul Alberts, Katharina Alsen, Anne Armstrong, Christianna Bennett, Peggy Bowers, Suzanne Brant, Chelsea Call, Patricia Castello Branco, Amal Dissanayaka, Marybeth Holleman, Jessica Holmes, Kathy Isaacson, Deepani Jayantha, Michaela Keeble, Marianne Krasny, Todd LeVasseur, Lyn McGaurr, Anna Oehlkers, Peter Oehlkers, Elizabeth Oriel, Joshua Potter, Paul Pulé, Jenny Rock, Ellen Sima, Richard Stedman, Carie Steele, Mark Terry, Keith Williams, Çagri Yilmaz, Alexa M. Dare, Joshua Trey Barnett, laura c carlson, Madrone Kalil Schutten, Mariko Oyama Thomas, Catherine Sarah Young, Libby Lester, S. Marek Muller, Emily Plec ...

Series series Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but ... Read more

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The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but
... Read more

Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...

In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

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In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an
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Friction

An Ethnography of Global Connection

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

$28.09 USD

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of
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Conservation Is Our Government Now

The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

by Paige West, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...

Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project ... Read more

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A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project
... Read more
Tourism and Sustainability

Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...

By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

$95.99 USD

By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring
... Read more
Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

Policy and Governance in a Changing World

Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...

**This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

$66.99 USD

**This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also
... Read more
The Seeds We Planted

Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School

by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua ...

Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical ... Read more

$17.99 USD

In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical
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Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

Landscapes, People and Power

by Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...

'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... Read more

$40.99 USD

'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst
... Read more

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