Laudato Si’ and the Environment

Laudato Si’ and the Environment PDF

Author: Robert McKim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 042995977X

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This volume is a response to the Pope’s Laudato Si’, giving an interdisciplinary overview of its impact on the environmental concerns of Catholics as well as other religious groups. Published in 2015, it is often seen as an "environmental" encyclical and in it the Pope urges us to face up to the crisis of climate change. He argues that all of us should prioritise taking better care of the Earth, our common home, while also attending to the plight of the poor. Written by an international and multidisciplinary team of leading scholars, the Pope’s invitation to all people to begin a new dialog about these matters is considered from a variety of perspectives. There is discussion of the implications for immigration, population control, eating animals, and property ownership. Additionally, indigenous religious perspectives, development and environmental protection, and the implementation of the ideas of the encyclical in the Church are explored. Each chapter deals with the scriptural, theological, and philosophical underpinnings of the encyclical, as well as other central concepts such as interconnectedness, the role of practice, and what Pope Francis calls the "technocratic paradigm". This book expertly illuminates the relationship between Laudato Si’ and environmental concerns. It will, therefore, be vital reading for anyone studying religion and the environment, environmental ethics, Catholic theology, and environmental thought.

The Meaning of Water

The Meaning of Water PDF

Author: Veronica Strang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1000190285

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Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next decade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous efforts by environmentalists and resource managers to encourage conservation. Conflicts over water and environmental degradation from the overuse of resources are intensifying. Water is not merely a physical resource: in every cultural context it is densely encoded with social, spiritual, political and environmental meanings, and these have a powerful effect upon patterns of water use and upon the relationships between water users and suppliers. This book makes an in-depth analysis of the meanings of water and considers how they are experienced and formed at an individual and societal level. Focusing on the River Stour in Dorset, Strang draws upon a wide range of data: ethnographic research, cultural mapping, local archives and folklore. She explores the controversies surrounding water ownership and management, and the social and political questions raised by water privatization in the UK. The topical nature of these issues and their global relevance make this book a vital contribution to contemporary research on water and an essential read for anyone with an interest in getting under the surface of one of the worlds most important social and environmental issues.

Water

Water PDF

Author: Veronica Strang

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 178023483X

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As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible examination of the crucial properties that make water so unique alongside the complex story of our evolving relationship with it. As Strang shows, our attitudes about water and the things that we rely on it for have changed dramatically over time. Once a mystical source of regenerative powers, it has since played various roles as our attitudes about hygiene, health, and disease have developed; as it has become useful to our industry; as agriculture has become ever more complex; and, of course, as we have learned to make money from it. Today water—who controls it, and how—is one of the largest issues facing our society, influencing everything from the welfare of the billions of people living on earth to the vitality of its natural habitats. Balancing history, science, and environmental and cultural studies, Strang offers an important, multi-faceted view of a critical resource.

Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change

Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change PDF

Author: Barbara Rose Johnston

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-12-07

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9400717741

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Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans.

Gardening the World

Gardening the World PDF

Author: Veronica Strang

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781845456061

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Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ecosystems are being severely degraded. These problems are particularly evident in Australia, with its industrialised economy and arid climate. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to examine the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two major Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this book examines their major water using and managing groups: indigenous communities, farmers, industries, recreational and domestic water users, and environmental organisations. It explores the issues that shape their different beliefs, values and practices in relation to water, and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings. Through an analysis of each group's diverse efforts to 'garden the world', it provides insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.

Community water access, availability and management in the Tonle Sap region, Cambodia

Community water access, availability and management in the Tonle Sap region, Cambodia PDF

Author: Joffre, O.

Publisher: WorldFish

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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ÿDuring the rollout of CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) in Tonle Sap in 2013, water management was highlighted as one of the key development challenges. With limited capacity to regulate water, the situation oscillates between too much water in the wet season and too little water in the dry season. Access to and availability of water were seen by local communities as major limitations for aquatic and agricultural production, impacting on functions that include the lake fishery, intensive (dry season) rice crops, recession rice, rainfed rice and floating rice by the lakeside. For both fish and rice production, water and water management are determined principally by the natural flooding of the Tonle Sap Lake. This study is based on a community survey on water access, availability and management and was conceived out of the AAS consultation process and was developed to help identify existing practices in water use and management, as well as best practices where lessons can be learned and promising activities scaled out to other communities. The community survey also aims to understand, identify and analyze constraints and opportunities related to water, and includes a gender perspective to better understand the role of women in water management and use.

Sojourn

Sojourn PDF

Author: Rev. Terry L. Dwelle MD MPHTM CPH

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2023-09-25

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13:

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Dr. Dwelle shares vignettes comprised of stories, poems, and adventures providing insights into events that have significantly influenced his character, faith, dreams, and life transitions stretching from North Dakota to South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. As you walk with the author on his sojourn you will experience the emotions and lessons learned by this Christian physician in his walk of faith.

MEHMET HAKAN ÖZYURT

MEHMET HAKAN ÖZYURT PDF

Author: Mehmet Hakan Özyurt

Publisher: Mehmet Hakan Özyurt

Published: 2022-12-09

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13:

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My name is “Mehmet Hakan Özyurt”. I am the writer and also “The Seagull” of this book, covering my three individual-unpublished books, “The Seagull in Desert”, “The Seagull in Noah’s Ark” and “The Seagull in Mhakoz”. When you read you will see, they are very well completing, each other. Due to that, I decided to put them together, under a cover book, like my other one, to serve you. But this time, with my full name and own picture. I believe that, this format is useful and interesting. When needed, they can also be published individually, with their pictures and contents. Anyway, having said that let me introduce my books. First, the first and also the main one. After years of patience, dedication and effort, I’ve finally produced “The Seagull in Desert”. Its interesting and meaningful name came from a poem, written for me. It then became a “Great Odyssey”, never seen before, to reach the answer “Whether the Seagull is in Desert, or not”. It started on 19 March 1976 which was my 17th. Birthday, reached its pioneer words in early years of new millennium, and then its first version in 2010, by doing many revisions. After 41 years of this long journey, I stopped it on 19 March 2017, at the end of its Part 2. During my journey, I faced many dreams, mysteries, science fictions, and also, places, environments, persons, creatures and other things. As a nonnative candidate writer, with insufficient and maybe unattractive English, needs professional edition. I tried to do my best while writing this book, took hundreds of A-4 pages with tens of different topics. They inevitably came to surface, as a result of my writing style, which can be described as, jumping from branch to branch. I tried to organize them into subsequent paragraphs and dialogues, as much as I could. I made quite many revisions on that. They caused me, not only delay to meet you, my readers, but also erode its naturality. They also caused me, reduce time I must allocate, to my family. So here, I would like to convey all my bests to, my lovely wife, daughter and son. While looking for that answer with this Odyssey, which then became “Hakway, the way of Hakan”, I kidnapped by a “Flying Carpet”, journeyed to mysteries, fought against dragons of King Agamemnon, toured around the world, discovered the center of the Sun, traveled in Universe, met with invisibles, and came back to the World. I with my light, like “Diogenes of Sinope”, did many things to get a clue, output or something useful for reaching that answer. I took my enlightenment to every possible place, environment, event and creature; exist in this Endless Heavenly Body (EHB). ”Inşallah/With the help of The Creator”, at the end of this long journey, hope to reach it, with the help of your enjoy, interest, patience and support. In April 2017, I started to write “The Seagull in Noah’s Ark”, which can be considered as a part of this long journey. I completed it in 2020, by doing many revisions. It became a short book on “Turkish-Armenian Relations in the History”, produced in light of detailed depictions of those cartoons, not included in this book which only has old and new pictures of the writer, of my study, which I made years ago. The Seagull, its important content and dialogues made contribution, to this valuable production. To me, if published, it will be a great asset for the history, and all related sides that show interest to the subject. If I can, I plan to write a new book related with that subject, and based on a scenario shortly given in this book. After some time I started to write the third one of my “The Seagull in………........” series. It was including my life in “Golden Cage” years, together with scenarios, which might be useful for movie makers to transfer these words, to movies. I was planning to put it, as a third one into the cover book. But then, I surprisingly changed my mind, and made it, as “Part 3 of the first book”. I continued to write its new sections, with this logic, and of course, also hope to find that answer, I was looking for in this long journey. I completed that part, so the book and cover book, in August 2021. In May 2022, I had chance to e-publish two in one cover book “The Seagull in Desert and Noah’s Ark”, with a GGKEY number, from an internet platform of a worldwide company. With this motivation, I decided to continue my book production and started to write my new book “The Seagull in Mhakoz”. I quickly finished it, with the help of my “Invisible Seagull” again, came from planet “Mhakoz” located in EHB. With this occasion I would like to thank to this creature, which then became my book friend. By the way, I must say that, Mhakoz is another short form of my full name, like MHÖ or MHO in English, as is been in “Ozyurt”. In November 2022, I completed this new book, covering my three books, by making some changes inputs, outputs and corrections on its other two books, as much as I could. I made paragraphs in beginning of the book shorter, with more highlightings. When you read you will see, the book part 1 inevitably made up of mostly paragraphs, while rest in dialogues. Hope to write new books, continue to production and do useful things. During this long journey, in January 2012, I also bought a webpage, having the same name with my first book, put its some content and wrote something. Finally, I would like to say that, my cover book picture tells many things. It, together with this preface and section names in the content, give some indications, on this book. It can include, some interesting and also different historical, social and global things, which need some level of intellectuality. After this long introduction, if ready, time to read the book. I hope, you like it.