Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273819012X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Urban Garden City
Author: Sandrine GlatronPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319727338
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic and social shape, and assets of our cities, and are increasingly becoming valued as an ‘order’ to follow. Gardens have long been part of the development of cities, serving different purposes through the ages: shaping neighborhoods to promote health or hygiene, introducing aesthetic or biological elements, gathering the citizens around a social purpose, and providing food and diversity in times of crisis. Highlighting examples that can serve as the basis for comparisons, the chapters offer a brief panorama of experiences and models of gardens in the city – in the European context and in various periods of history – while also discussing issues related to garden cities, urban agriculture and community gardens. The contributors are university staff from various disciplines in the human and life sciences, in discourse with other academics but also with practitioners who are interested in experiences with urban gardens and in promoting an awareness of their spatial, social and ‘philosophical’ goals throughout history. The book will appeal to urban geographers, sociologists and historians, but also to urban ecologists dealing with ecosystem services, biodiversity and sustainable development in cities. From a more operational standpoint, landscape planners and architects are sure to find many of the projects enlightening and inspirational.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273819012X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Globalization, Culture, and Development
Author: Christiaan De BeukelaerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137397632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, arguing that the Convention is not broad enough to confront the challenges concerning human rights, sustainability, and cultural diversity as a whole.
Biodiversity and Local Ecological Knowledge in France
Author: Laurence BérardPublisher: Editions Quae
ISBN: 9782738012227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The knowledge of nature held by autochthonous and local communities has been the subject of international talks, notably on biodiversity, but has primarily been studied from an autochthonous angle. French experience of conserving and promoting local know-how, which is the subject of this book, is based on the notions of heritage and of terroirs. This original approach could feed international debate. The book is thus primarily intended for negotiators and political leaders, along with local players who may be interested by the global dimension of such know-how.
Tracking key trends in biodiversity science and policy: based on the proceedings of a UNESCO International Conference on Biodiversity Science and Policy
Author: Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230011185
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Rapport du douzième Forum mondial sur la diversité biologique
Author: Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831706017
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Nature Conservation
Author: Dan GaftaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540472290
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation. The panel of contributors consider a range of topics in vegetation and biodiversity assessment, planning and management of conservation zones and protected areas, together with historical and social/legal issues of the environment and nature conservation. The book celebrates the life’s work of Professor Franco Pedrotti.
Écologie Radicale Au Québec
Author: Bruno MasséPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557056217
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Une contribution importante et unique a la connaissance et a l'analyse de l'ecologisme radical au Quebec. - Francis Dupuis-Deri, auteur de Les Black Blocs: la liberte et l'egalite se manifestent. La premiere grande etude de l'ecologie radicale au Quebec, couvrant la periode du Sommet des Ameriques de 2001 jusqu'a l'automne 2007, incluant une mise a jour de la periode 2007-2010. Bruno Masse, geographe et anarchiste, a rencontre 10 des 14 groupes ecologistes radicaux du Quebec et rapporte leurs desirs, leurs peurs, leur conception du monde. Une analyse radicale du potentiel revolutionnaire de l'ecologie radicale, une description terrain des differentes formes de resistance et de transgression, laissant suite a des reflexions sur l'avenir de la lutte.
Reports of Cases Before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Non-wood News
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Non-timber forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description