Engaging People in Sustainability
Title | Engaging People in Sustainability PDF eBook |
Author | Daniella Tilbury |
Publisher | IUCN |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9782831708232 |
The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
By the Bog of Cats
Title | By the Bog of Cats PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Carr |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2014-09-04 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 057131872X |
Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed. 'A piece of poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent By the Bog of Cats premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1998. It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in November 2004.
Changes in Argument Structure
Title | Changes in Argument Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Tamara Bouso-Rivas |
Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2021-05-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783034340953 |
The monograph focuses on the characterization and history of the English reaction object construction (ROC) from the perspective of Diachronic Construction Grammar.
Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
Title | Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Leal Filho |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 595 |
Release | 2014-10-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3319088378 |
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.
World Anthropologies
Title | World Anthropologies PDF eBook |
Author | Gustavo Lins Ribeiro |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2020-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000184498 |
Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
European Military Law Systems
Title | European Military Law Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Nolte |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3110907267 |
The German Ministry of Defense decided in 2000 to commission a study comparing various European systems of military law. The present book contains not only the original study but also all national reports in English. It provides a comparative analysis of different European military law systems on the basis of national reports.
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics
Title | TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics PDF eBook |
Author | Ina V. S. Mullis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2012-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789079549177 |