Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses

Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses
Title Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses PDF eBook
Author Eveline Dürr
Publisher Springer
Pages 242
Release 2017-03-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137533498

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This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as belonging, emotional attachment to land, and new forms of environmental knowledge. The theoretical framework of the book is inspired by current debates among diverse conceptualisations of the environment and thus, of various ways of knowing, making sense of, and interacting with worlds. With this focus in mind, the book provides new insights into recent socio-cultural and environmental dynamics in the Pacific.

Beyond Belief

Beyond Belief
Title Beyond Belief PDF eBook
Author Johannes M. Luetz
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 391
Release 2021-04-03
Genre Science
ISBN 3030676021

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This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: • Context: past, present, and future prospects• Theory: concepts, narratives, and theoretical frameworks• Practice: empirical research and praxis-informed case examples• Doctrine: scriptural contributions and perspectives• Engagement: enlisting religious stakeholders and constituencies Comprising peer-reviewed works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across Oceania, the book closes a critical gap in the literature and represents a groundbreaking contribution to holistic climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands Region that is scientifically sound, spiritually attuned, locally meaningful, and contextually compelling.

Moving Islands

Moving Islands
Title Moving Islands PDF eBook
Author Diana Looser
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 359
Release 2021-09-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0472132385

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A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Mineral Fibres

Mineral Fibres
Title Mineral Fibres PDF eBook
Author Andrea Bloise
Publisher MDPI
Pages 118
Release 2019-07-16
Genre Science
ISBN 3039211447

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In the last decades, there has been increasing interest in Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) and asbestos containing materials (ACMs) as a source of possible environmental risk. A crucial theme of interest related to environmental pollution is the enhanced mobilization of asbestos minerals affecting soils and rocks due to human activities (e.g., road construction, mining activity) in comparison with natural weathering processes. The volume has aimed to gather contributions and to compare results derived from various experiences of research groups regarding NOA minerals as a source of possible environmental risks for population. Case studies from various geological contexts are presented. Moreover, contributions presenting novel and classical approaches for ACM inertization and recycling, together with possible solutions for reducing asbestos exposure, has been also presented.

Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place

Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place
Title Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place PDF eBook
Author Carsten Wergin
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 267
Release 2023
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1793648263

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The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history. Carsten Wergin offers a timely discussion of the sociocultural and political relevance of heritage and tourism for ecological preservation and the wider decolonial project in Australia and beyond.

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent
Title Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent PDF eBook
Author Beate Neumeier
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 311
Release 2019-11-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 149856402X

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Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of “care for country” is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.

Impact of the Environment on Reproductive Health

Impact of the Environment on Reproductive Health
Title Impact of the Environment on Reproductive Health PDF eBook
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Pages 512
Release 1993
Genre Genetic toxicology
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