The Recurring Dark Ages
Title | The Recurring Dark Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Sing C. Chew |
Publisher | Rowman Altamira |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780759104525 |
In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.
Dark Age America
Title | Dark Age America PDF eBook |
Author | John Michael Greer |
Publisher | New Society Publisher |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1550926284 |
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today’s industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. The questions we need to ask now focus on what comes next. This book provides a hard but hopeful look at the answer
Understanding the Global Environment
Title | Understanding the Global Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Samir Dasgupta |
Publisher | Pearson Education India |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Environmental economics |
ISBN | 9788131717028 |
Globalization is often discussed in terms of its ecological ramifications. Yet, while ecological imbalance is today one of the greatest threats to mankind, globalization is also a reality that is here to stay. The volume, therefore, seeks to address how globalizing and environmental interests can be reconciled. The essays in this volume state that globalization can work both in favour of and against the environment. The major issues discussed in this topical volume are, how globalization can be used to promote environmental reforms; the role of individuals, private organizations and governments in keeping environmental degradation in check and in promoting environmental reform; globalization and ecological inequality; women, the environment and globalization; changing nature of environmental movements; overpopulation and the ecology; the relation between the ecology and the economy; and the effects of global climate changes.
Ecological Futures
Title | Ecological Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Sing C. Chew |
Publisher | Rowman Altamira |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0759104549 |
Ecological Futures, the final book in Sing C. Chew's trilogy on world ecological degradation, proposes that our own era exhibits ecological conditions similar to those of the past. The climate changes, environmental crises, mass population migrations, and socioeconomic disorganization we find in our globalized world also characterized the Late Bronze Age and the period following the fall of the Roman Empire. Given such historical parallels, can history tell us what to expect? Analyzing past trends, Chew identifies a set of long-term structural changes common to previous systemic crises and suggests possible outcomes. These "possible futures" include the collapse of systems, territories, informational technologies, and communities in an era of scarce resources, political reorganization, and globalization.
Dark Ages
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Pages | 30 |
Release | 1973 |
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Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
Title | Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Sing C. Chew |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2021-02-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 179364151X |
We live in a digitalized world that is experiencing environmental changes, scarcity of natural resources, global pandemics, mass migrations, and burgeoning global populations. In Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality, Sing C. Chew proposes that we meet these challenges by examining the connected global world we live in and by considering the advances that have been made in digitalization, miniaturization, dematerialization, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented realities, and machine learning, which have increased our socioeconomic and political productivity. Chew outlines potential structural avenues to address these challenges, suggests pragmatic choices to ease living during these chaotic crisis conditions, and outlines solutions that will enable us to traverse systemic crises.
The Dark Ages
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Release | 1935 |
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