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Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 240
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The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Author: María Asunción Torres López Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher ISBN: 9788447035540 Category : Law Languages : es Pages : 493
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Este libro es fruto de las aportaciones de diversos especialistas nacionales e internacionales en materias conectadas con las energías renovables en general o la energía eólica en particular. El importante desarrollo e implementación de este último tipo de energía y los problemas y conflictos que ocasiona, así como los beneficios y ventajas que justifican su fomento, han motivado su tratamiento específico desde la perspectiva del Derecho. La obra se estructura en cuatro partes. Una parte introductoria dedicada al análisis de la regulación de las energías renovables en general y su justificación basada fundamentalmente en el Cambio Climático. La siguiente se centra ya en cinco aspectos destacables o interesantes del objeto específico de este trabajo: la naturaleza jurídica de la energía eólica; los procedimientos de autorización de los parques eólicos; la gestión integrada del litoral en relación con los parques eólicos que se ubican en esa zona; la intervención local en la implantación de parques eólicos; y la coordinación de los procedimientos de autorización administrativa, acceso a la red y reconocimiento del régimen especial. La tercera parte trata un tema de carácter ambiental, probablemente el de mayor interés y trascendencia para la instalación en el territorio de los parques eólicos: el de la protección del paisaje. Por último, la cuarta parte se destina a presentar tres visiones comparadas de la regulación de la energía eólica: de los dos países con mayor potencia eólica instalada -Alemania y Estados Unidos- aunque con esquemas de apoyo público bien diferentes, y de otro país -Japón- que no destaca tanto en ese aspecto (sí en el de la energía fotovoltaica) pero que a diferencia de EE.UU. ha firmado y ratificado el Protocolo de Kyoto y, por consiguiente, está adoptando medidas en consecuencia. Esta publicación va dirigida especialmente a los agentes públicos y privados relacionados con los procesos de desarrollo e implantación de la energía eólica, desde el momento de su regulación normativa hasta el de su efectivo aprovechamiento mediante la instalación de los parques eólicos. También puede satisfacer la curiosidad o las inquietudes de personas ambientalmente conscientes o comprometidas que quieran estar al corriente de la situación jurídica, los pros y contras, la problemática en general, de la energía eólica y de las instalaciones para su aprovechamiento, y su relación con el Cambio Climático.
Author: Marcus Banks Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300078541 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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This text brings together a collection of essays by leading anthropologists, covering an entire range of visual representation and including discussions on the anthropology of art, the study of landscape, and the history of anthropology.
Author: Michael Bothe Publisher: Eleven International Publishing ISBN: 9077596054 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 458
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This book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme. Contributions are from highly qualified economic and legal specialists based at research institutes across Europe. The book gives answers to several questions related to the implementation of the international rules on climate change, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. It analyses ways and means to facilitate and encourage compliance with the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol. It is addressed to policy-makers, academics, business-sector and stakeholders throughout and outside Europe. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this work is a distinctive and unique product compared to the existing literature on the subject. The effective implementation of climate protection and clean air policy requires an understanding of the political, legal and economic structures and constraints facing policy makers - and this is exactly what this book offers.
Author: Christine E. Gudorf Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 1589016858 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 329
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In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future. Boundaries begins with a lucid overview of the field, highlighting the key developments and theories in the environmental movement. Specific cases offer a rich and diverse range of situations from around the globe, from saving the forests of Java and the use of pesticides in developing countries to restoring degraded ecosystems in Nebraska. With an emphasis on the concrete circumstances of particular localities, the studies continue to focus on the dilemmas and struggles of individuals and communities who face daunting decisions with serious consequences. This second edition features extensive updates and revisions, along with four new cases: one on water privatization, one on governmental efforts to mitigate global climate change, and two on the obstacles that teachers of environmental ethics encounter in the classroom. Boundaries also includes an appendix for teachers that describes how to use the cases in the classroom.
Author: Peter Ian Crawford Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719036835 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 340
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This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels; that they are hierarchically related; that whereas writings may encompass the images produced by film, the inverse of this cannot be true. The author argues for this position further by suggesting that the visual is to the written mode as "thin description" (giving a record of the form of behaviour) is to "thick description" (giving an account of meaning).
Author: David MacDougall Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400851815 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 329
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David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way, To Live with Herds, A Wife among Wives, Takeover, PhotoWallahs, and Tempus de Baristas. As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays collected here address, for instance, the difference between films and written texts and between the position of the filmmaker and that of the anthropological writer. In fact, these works provide an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject. Refreshingly free of jargon, each piece belongs very much to the tradition of the essay in its personal engagement with exploring difficult issues. The author ultimately disputes the view that ethnographic filmmaking is merely a visual form of anthropology, maintaining instead that it is a radical anthropological practice, which challenges many of the basic assumptions of the discipline of anthropology itself. Although influential among filmmakers and critics, some of these essays were published in small journals and have been until now difficult to find. The three longest pieces, including the title essay, are new.
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
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