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Beyond the Blue Economy: Creative Industries and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)
by Peter RudgeThis book argues for a broader approach to sustainable growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Small island states such as those in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific face significant and growing threats from climate change, increasing political and social volatility, and rapidly evolving global trends in technology and tourism. Based on ten years of research, this book looks beyond the Blue Economy of tourism and fisheries and provides a model of how creative industries, innovation networks, creative clusters and digital transformation can give SIDS the foundation for a strong sustainable future. The book provides not only insights into how these emerging digital-creative sectors can drive developing economies but also actionable tools for policy makers, entrepreneurs and academics to deliver increased performance on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and, ultimately, growth and sustainability. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of economic geography, sustainable development, development studies and the creative industries.
Beyond the Bottom Line: Integrating Sustainability into Business and Management Practice
by Milenko Gudić Tay Keong Tan Patricia M. FlynnBeyond the Bottom Line: Integrating the UN Global Compact into Management Practice is the first book to look at how the Ten UN Global Compact Principles and the sustainability agenda can be incorporated into business practice. The UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative and, with over 12,000 participating organizations, provides a major influence on global business sustainability practices. Its mission is to guide organizations in how to (1) do business responsibly by aligning their strategies and operations with Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption; and (2) take strategic actions to advance broader societal goals, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on collaboration and innovation.This new book addresses head-on some of the most persistent managerial challenges faced by businesses and organizations today. To what extent are businesses able to practice responsible management with regard to the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact? How can managers of organizations comprehensively and pragmatically address the risks and responsibilities concerning these complex and changing issues in their policies and practice? It also offers a platform for academics to confront some of the most intriguing intellectual challenges on this topic.
Beyond the Energy–Water–Food Nexus: New Strategies for 21st-Century Growth (Doshorts Ser.)
by Will SarniProviding food, clean water and energy for a growing population is one of the greatest challenges facing public and private sector professionals. While there is widespread recognition of the complex feedback loops between energy, water and food, there has been less focus on viable solutions. This guide by Will Sarni – an internationally recognized thought leader on corporate water stewardship and water tech innovation – frames the key issues and challenges for business professionals, and then outlines emerging solutions which include both "soft path" and technology innovation approaches. The book includes case examples of multinational companies who are abandoning business as usual and moving beyond traditional thinking. It also highlights crucial new partnerships or "collective action initiatives" where NGOs, multinationals and the public sector come together to forge practical solutions to meet the needs of their stakeholders. Solutions to the energy–water–food nexus will need to be disruptive, not incremental, and will require technology innovation, new public–private partnerships, and changes in public policy. Beyond the Energy–Food–Water Nexus shows organizations how they can play their part in improving the quality of life for an urbanized global population while preserving the ecosystems that sustain us all.
Beyond the Limits to Growth: New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan (Science for Sustainable Societies)
by Hiroshi KomiyamaAt a time when contemporary challenges seem to many to be insurmountable, this book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and internationally, Hiroshi Komiyama analyzes the most pressing challenges to the attainment of sustainability of economically advanced nations and argues forcefully for Japan to lead them out of the present dilemma through active promotion of creative consumer and societal demand. He shows how an active industry-government-academic partnership can provide the environment needed to promote such new creative demand and illustrates its potential through presentation of a Platinum Society Network that was launched on a regional basis in Japan in 2010 to facilitate the solution of common issues through the exchange of information and ideas. What is perhaps most surprising about the text is its unwavering optimism supported by hard evidence, history, and insightful observation. Problems arising from new paradigms of the 21st century (what the author refers to as "exploding knowledge, limited Earth resources, and aging societies") thwart sustainable development in advanced and developing countries alike. All countries will struggle with issues that evolve from these paradigms including diminishing resources, expanding budget deficits, and growing global environmental problems. This window on potential practical pathways and solutions should be of interest to all those engaged in seeking ways to meet these contemporary challenges.
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
by Alastair BonnettNew islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day—and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures every fascinating change. In Beyond the Map, Bonnett presents stories of the world’s most extraordinary spaces—many unmarked on any official map—all of which challenge our assumptions about what we know—or think we know—about our world. As cultural, religious and political boundaries ebb and flow with each passing day, traditional maps unravel and fragment. With the same adventurous spirit he effused in the acclaimed Unruly Places, Bonnett takes us to thirty-nine incredible spots around the globe to explore these changing boundaries and stimulate our geographical imagination. Some are tied to disruptive contemporary political turbulence, such as the rise of ISIL, Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. Others explore the secret places not shown on Google Earth or reflect fast-changing landscapes. Beyond the Map journeys out into a world of mysterious, daunting and magical spaces. It is a world of hidden cultures and ghostly memories, of uncountable new islands and curious stabs at paradise. From the phantom tunnels of the Tokyo subway to a stunning movie-set re-creation of 1950s-era Moscow; from the caliphate of the Islamic State to virtual cybertopias—this book serves as an imaginative guide to the farthest fringes of geography.
Beyond the Megacity: New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America (Global Suburbanisms)
by Nadine Reis Michael LukasBeyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South. From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.
Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)
by Olivier Coutard Jonathan RutherfordCities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive, homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies dynamics through which a ‘break’ with previous configurations has been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and infrastructure production are being combined with crucial sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and claims; and through changing offsets between individual and collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of contemporary urban change across North and South.
Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment
by Judy Norsigian Sharon Stanton Russell G. Rathjens J. Boutwell Adrienne Germain David E. HorlacherBeyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.Specific chapters consider each of the broad topics addressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt. The essays are supplemented by sidebars and short articles featuring more-impassioned voices that highlight issues of interest not fully explored in the overviews.As well as providing a sense of the difficulties involved in dealing with these issues, the essays make clear that constructive action is possible.Topics covered include: the interrelationships between population, economic growth, consumption, and development the history of population and family planning efforts gender equality and the empowerment of women reproductive rights, reproductive health, family planning, health and mortality
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
by Michael R. Dove Percy E. Sajise Amity A. DoolittleReflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries and the United States rethink the translation of environmental concepts between East and West, particularly ideas of nature and culture; the meaning of conservation; and the ways that conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors focus more on folk, community, and vernacular conservation discourses than on those of formal institutions and the state. They reject the notion that conservation only takes place in bounded, static, otherworldly spaces such as protected areas or sacred forests. Thick with ethnographic detail, their essays move beyond the forest to agriculture and other land uses, leave behind orthodox notions of the sacred, discard outdated ideas of environmental harmony and stasis, and reject views of the environment that seek to avoid or escape politics. Natural-resource managers and policymakers who work with this more complicated vision of nature and culture are likely to enjoy more enduring success than those who simply seek to remove the influence and impact of humans from conserved landscapes. As many of the essays suggest, this requires the ability to manage contradictions, to relinquish orthodox ideas of what conservation looks like, and to practice continuously adaptive management techniques. Contributors. Upik Djalins, Amity A. Doolittle, Michael R. Dove, Levita Duhaylungsod, Emily E. Harwell, Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, Lye Tuck-Po, Percy E. Sajise, Endah Sulistyawati, Yunita T. Winarto
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
by Adam ShoaltsA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being. Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacles: shifting ice floes, swollen rivers, fog-bound lakes, and gale-force storms. And Shoalts must time his departure by the breakup of the spring ice, then sprint across nearly 4,000 kilometers of rugged, wild terrain to arrive before winter closes in. He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream. He must portage across fields of jagged rocks that stretch to the horizon, and navigate labyrinths of swamps, tormented by clouds of mosquitoes every step of the way. And the race against the calendar means that he cannot afford the luxuries of rest, or of making mistakes. Shoalts must trek tirelessly, well into the endless Arctic summer nights, at times not even pausing to eat. But his reward is the adventure of a lifetime.Heart-stopping, wonder-filled, and attentive to the majesty of the natural world, Beyond the Trees captures the ache for adventure that afflicts us all.
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line: Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model (The\mit Press Ser.)
by Francisco Szekely Zahir DossaA pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In this book, Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa offer a pragmatic new business model for sustainability that extends beyond the traditional framework of the triple bottom line, describing eight steps that range from exploring a vision and establishing a strategy to implementing the strategy and promoting innovation.Szekely and Dossa argue that businesses and organizations need to move away from the business case for sustainability toward a sustainable business model. That is, businesses should go beyond the usual short-term focus on minimizing harm while maximizing profits. Instead, businesses on the path to sustainability should, from the start, focus on addressing a societal need and view profitability not as an end but as a means to support the sustainable organization.Szekely and Dossa explore key problems organizations face when pursuing a sustainability agenda. Each chapter presents one of the eight steps, describes a business dilemma for sustainability, provides a theoretically grounded strategic framework, offers case studies that illustrate the dilemma, and summarizes key findings; the case studies draw on the experiences of such companies as Tesla Motors, Patagonia, TOMs, and Panera. The book emphasizes leadership, arguing that leaders who question the status quo, inspire others, and take risks are essential for achieving sustainable business practices.
Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration
by null Tao OrionInvasive species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear to overtake fragile native species and forever change the ecosystems that they depend on.Concerns that invasive species represent significant threats to global biodiversity and ecological integrity permeate conversations from schoolrooms to board rooms, and concerned citizens grapple with how to rapidly and efficiently manage their populations. These worries have culminated in an ongoing &“war on invasive species,&” where the arsenal is stocked with bulldozers, chainsaws, and herbicides put to the task of their immediate eradication. In Hawaii, mangrove trees (Avicennia spp.) are sprayed with glyphosate and left to decompose on the sandy shorelines where they grow, and in Washington, helicopters apply the herbicide Imazapyr to smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) growing in estuaries. The &“war on invasive species&” is in full swing, but given the scope of such potentially dangerous and ecologically degrading eradication practices, it is necessary to question the very nature of the battle. Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers a much-needed alternative perspective on invasive species and the best practices for their management based on a holistic, permaculture-inspired framework. Utilizing the latest research and thinking on the changing nature of ecological systems, Beyond the War on Invasive Species closely examines the factors that are largely missing from the common conceptions of invasive species, including how the colliding effects of climate change, habitat destruction, and changes in land use and management contribute to their proliferation.There is more to the story of invasive species than is commonly conceived, and Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers ways of understanding their presence and ecosystem effects in order to make more ecologically responsible choices in land restoration and biodiversity conservation that address the root of the invasion phenomenon. The choices we make on a daily basis—the ways we procure food, shelter, water, medicine, and transportation—are the major drivers of contemporary changes in ecosystem structure and function; therefore, deep and long-lasting ecological restoration outcomes will come not just from eliminating invasive species, but through conscientious redesign of these production systems.&“Beyond the War on Invasive Species is a devastating exposé of the military industrial invasive species complex and a sorely needed and impeccably researched volume that should become one of many as we recover from self-destructive attempts to eradicate parts of nature instead of acting with an understanding of the whole.&”—Ben Falk, author of The Resilient Farm and Homestead and founder of Whole Systems Design
Beyond Western Economics: Remembering Other Economic Cultures
by Trent SchroyerThis book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of globalization and world events. Trent Schroyer provides a moral and cultural interpretation of modernity and scientism, highlighting their political and economic consequences – but the book’s main purpose is not to criticize. The author moves beyond this to offer alternative "economic cultures," again combining abstract theoretical analysis with concrete case studies of alternative economic formations from local self-sufficiency movements to cooperatives and other anti-capitalist institutional experiments. These case studies exhibit an impressive range of variation, from first world to third world, from reformist to utopian transformative. Finally, Schroyer links the project to the global justice movement that opposes corporate globalization and eventually links participatory economics and democratic politics to a new image of science as "participatory social learning."
Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel (Beyond Words #1)
by Carl SafinaA young reader’s adaptation of The New York Times bestsellerFollow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea—how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too.Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain and featuring astonishing photographs taken by the author, Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel gives readers an intimate and extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more important, what makes us all similar.
Bezugssysteme (Grundlagen der Physikalischen und Mathematischen Geodäsie)
by Karl Heinz IlkDieses Lehrbuch aus der Reihe „Grundlagen der Physikalischen und Mathematischen Geodäsie“ zeigt, warum Bezugssysteme und Bezugsrahmen in der Erdmessung eine fundamentale Rolle spielen. Der Autor erläutert den Newtonschen Raum-Zeit-Begriff und gibt eine Einführung in das Einsteinsche Raum-Zeit-Konzept. Wichtige Beziehungen für die Translation der Erde im Sonnensystem werden präsentiert, und es wird ausführlich die Mechanik der Rotation der Erde im Falle drehmomentfreier Bewegungen sowie unter dem Einfluss eines luni-solaren Drehmomentes behandelt. Neben diesen grundlegenden Aspekten werden die Begriffe Ekliptik- und Äquatorsystem als raumfeste Bezugssysteme eingeführt und die Transformationen zwischen den verschiedenen Bezugssystemen bzw. zwischen den verschiedenen Bezugsrahmen behandelt. Eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Zeitsysteme rundet das Werk ab.
BGE S1–S3 Geography: Third and Fourth Levels
by Carly BlackmanSyllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQALevel: BGE S1-S3: Third and Fourth LevelSubject: GeographyTake your pupils on a journey where they will think, question and explore like geographers, developing their geographical skills, knowledge and understanding throughout S1-S3.Covering all CfE Third and Fourth Level Benchmarks for Social Studies: People, Place and Environment, this ready-made and fully differentiated BGE Geography course puts progression for every pupil at the heart of your curriculum.- Build understanding of geographical ideas, issues and processes: Clear explanations, diagrams and definitions of key words make the content accessible and engaging for all pupils- Interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical data: Pupils will practise and improve their geographical skills by completing a range of activities that involve maps, photos, graphs and case studies - with answers provided at the back of the book- Meet the needs of each pupil in your class: The content and activities are designed to ensure accessibility for those with low prior attainment, while extension tasks will stretch and challenge higher ability pupils- Effectively check and assess progress: All activities support formative assessment, helping you monitor progression against the Experiences & Outcomes and Benchmarks (with additional assessments and worksheets in the separate Planning & Assessment Pack)- Lay firm foundations for National qualifications: The skills, knowledge and understanding established through the course will set pupils up for success at National 5 and beyond- Deliver the 'responsibility for all' Es and Os: Plenty of activities that address literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing skills are threaded through the book
BGE S1–S3 Geography: Third and Fourth Levels
by Carly BlackmanSyllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQALevel: BGE S1-S3: Third and Fourth LevelSubject: GeographyTake your pupils on a journey where they will think, question and explore like geographers, developing their geographical skills, knowledge and understanding throughout S1-S3.Covering all CfE Third and Fourth Level Benchmarks for Social Studies: People, Place and Environment, this ready-made and fully differentiated BGE Geography course puts progression for every pupil at the heart of your curriculum.- Build understanding of geographical ideas, issues and processes: Clear explanations, diagrams and definitions of key words make the content accessible and engaging for all pupils- Interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical data: Pupils will practise and improve their geographical skills by completing a range of activities that involve maps, photos, graphs and case studies - with answers provided at the back of the book- Meet the needs of each pupil in your class: The content and activities are designed to ensure accessibility for those with low prior attainment, while extension tasks will stretch and challenge higher ability pupils- Effectively check and assess progress: All activities support formative assessment, helping you monitor progression against the Experiences & Outcomes and Benchmarks (with additional assessments and worksheets in the separate Planning & Assessment Pack)- Lay firm foundations for National qualifications: The skills, knowledge and understanding established through the course will set pupils up for success at National 5 and beyond- Deliver the 'responsibility for all' Es and Os: Plenty of activities that address literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing skills are threaded through the book
Bhugol class 10 - Maharashtra Board: भूगोल १०वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक दसवीं कक्षा के छात्रों को भूगोल की गहन समझ प्रदान करती है, जिसमें प्राकृतिक एवं मानवीय भूगोल के महत्वपूर्ण विषयों को शामिल किया गया है। इसमें पृथ्वी की संरचना, जलवायु परिवर्तन, प्राकृतिक आपदाएँ, जनसंख्या वितरण, संसाधनों का सतत उपयोग, उद्योग, परिवहन और संचार जैसे विषयों को विस्तार से समझाया गया है। पुस्तक में भारत और ब्राजील की भौगोलिक विशेषताओं की तुलना भी की गई है, जिससे छात्रों को विभिन्न भौगोलिक अवधारणाओं का तुलनात्मक अध्ययन करने का अवसर मिलता है। इसमें भारतीय संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) के अंतर्गत नागरिकों के कर्तव्यों पर भी प्रकाश डाला गया है, जिसमें पर्यावरण संरक्षण, वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने, और राष्ट्रीय एकता बनाए रखने जैसी जिम्मेदारियाँ शामिल हैं। इसके अलावा, पुस्तक में मानचित्र अध्ययन, सांख्यिकीय डेटा विश्लेषण, क्षेत्र-अध्ययन, और व्यावहारिक परियोजनाओं पर भी ध्यान दिया गया है। यह पाठ्यपुस्तक न केवल छात्रों को परीक्षा की तैयारी में मदद करती है, बल्कि उन्हें भूगोल के व्यावहारिक उपयोग और सतत विकास की दिशा में सोचने के लिए प्रेरित करती है।
Bhugol class 6 - Maharashtra Board: भूगोल ६वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक छठी कक्षा के छात्रों के लिए भूगोल विषय का मूलभूत परिचय प्रदान करती है। इसमें पृथ्वी की संरचना, उसके विभिन्न पहलू, अक्षांश-देशांतर रेखाएँ, जलवायु, महासागर, चट्टानें, प्राकृतिक संसाधन, ऊर्जा स्रोत और मानवीय व्यवसायों का अध्ययन किया गया है। पुस्तक छात्रों को पृथ्वी के भौगोलिक स्वरूप, उसके मानचित्र, मौसम परिवर्तन, तापमान वितरण, महासागरों के महत्त्व और उनके प्रदूषण से संबंधित जानकारी प्रदान करती है। इसके अलावा, यह संसाधनों के विवेकपूर्ण उपयोग और सतत विकास पर जोर देती है। विद्यार्थियों को क्षेत्रीय अध्ययन, मानचित्र पढ़ने की तकनीक, स्थानों की पहचान और पर्यावरण संरक्षण के प्रति जागरूक किया जाता है। इसमें वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण, सामाजिक समरसता, और प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के संरक्षण पर बल दिया गया है। भूगोल को सरल और रोचक बनाने के लिए पुस्तक में चित्र, मानचित्र और गतिविधियाँ शामिल की गई हैं, जिससे छात्र व्यावहारिक ज्ञान अर्जित कर सकें और इसे दैनिक जीवन में लागू कर सकें।
Bhugol class 7 - Maharashtra Board: भूगोल ७वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक सातवीं कक्षा के विद्यार्थियों के लिए भूगोल विषय की मूलभूत और महत्वपूर्ण अवधारणाओं को सरल और रोचक तरीके से प्रस्तुत करती है। इसमें पृथ्वी की भौगोलिक संरचना, जलवायु परिवर्तन, ऋतुचक्र, सूर्य, चंद्रमा और पृथ्वी के पारस्परिक संबंध, ज्वार-भाटा, वायुदाब, हवाओं की दिशा, प्राकृतिक प्रदेश, मिट्टी, कृषि और मानवीय बस्तियों से संबंधित विषयों को शामिल किया गया है। पुस्तक में भारत के संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) के तहत नागरिकों के मूलभूत कर्तव्यों पर भी प्रकाश डाला गया है, जिसमें पर्यावरण संरक्षण, वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने और राष्ट्रीय एकता बनाए रखने की बात कही गई है। मानचित्र, चित्र, तालिकाएँ और गतिविधियों के माध्यम से विद्यार्थियों को अवधारणाएँ समझने में सहायता मिलती है। इसके अलावा, छात्रों को पर्यावरण संरक्षण, संसाधनों के विवेकपूर्ण उपयोग और सतत विकास की ओर प्रेरित करने के लिए व्यावहारिक उदाहरण दिए गए हैं। यह पुस्तक भूगोल के प्रति जिज्ञासा बढ़ाने और छात्रों को विषय का व्यावहारिक ज्ञान प्रदान करने में सहायक सिद्ध होती है।
Bhugol class 8 - Maharashtra Board: भूगोल ८वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक विद्यार्थियों को भूगोल की गहन समझ प्रदान करती है, जिसमें पृथ्वी की आंतरिक संरचना, स्थानीय एवं मानक समय, महासागरों की धाराएँ, जलवायु परिवर्तन, भूमि उपयोग, जनसंख्या वितरण और औद्योगिक विकास जैसे विषय शामिल हैं। इसमें भारत के मानक समय (IST), विभिन्न प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के उपयोग और पर्यावरणीय संतुलन पर विशेष ध्यान दिया गया है। इसके अलावा, भारत के संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) के तहत नागरिकों के मौलिक कर्तव्यों, जैसे पर्यावरण संरक्षण, वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने और राष्ट्र की एकता बनाए रखने पर भी प्रकाश डाला गया है। पुस्तक में मानचित्र, चित्र, गतिविधियाँ और अध्ययन-अध्यापन के डिजिटल संसाधनों को भी जोड़ा गया है। यह छात्रों को भूगोल विषय की व्यावहारिक समझ विकसित करने में मदद करती है और उन्हें सतत विकास की दिशा में सोचने के लिए प्रेरित करती है।
Bhugol Vikasat Bhartiyanche Yogdan First Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - RTMNU: भूगोल विकासात भारतीयांचे योगदान पहिले सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज नागपूर विद्यापीठ
by Dr Yogendra S. Nagarale Dr Ankush N. Barmateभूगोल विकासात भारतीयांचे योगदान हे पुस्तक भारतीय विद्वानांनी भूगोलाच्या क्षेत्रात केलेल्या ऐतिहासिक आणि शैक्षणिक योगदानाची सखोल चर्चा करते. भूगोल हा विषय केवळ नकाशे आणि स्थळसंख्या यापुरता मर्यादित नसून त्याचा संबंध मानवी संस्कृती, पर्यावरण, संसाधने आणि ऐतिहासिक प्रवास यांच्याशी आहे. या पुस्तकात भारतीय खगोलशास्त्र, नकाशाशास्त्र, पर्यावरणीय अभ्यास आणि भौगोलिक संशोधनाची प्राचीन तसेच आधुनिक कालखंडातील भूमिका स्पष्ट केली आहे. वेद-उपनिषदांपासून आर्यभट्ट, वराहमिहिर आणि भास्कराचार्य यांच्या कार्यांपर्यंत भारतीय शास्त्रज्ञांनी भूगोलाच्या अभ्यासात दिलेले योगदान यात अधोरेखित केले आहे. राष्ट्रीय शैक्षणिक धोरण (NEP 2020) च्या अनुषंगाने हे पुस्तक विद्यार्थ्यांना भारतीय दृष्टिकोनातून भूगोल शिकण्यास मदत करते आणि त्यांना भारतीय परंपरांचा अभिमान बाळगण्यास प्रेरित करते. तसेच, भारतीय भूगोलशास्त्राचा आधुनिक अभ्यास आणि संशोधनाचे विविध पैलू यात समाविष्ट आहेत.
Bhutan: Conservation and Environmental Protection in the Himalayas
by Ugyen Tshewang Michael Charles Tobias Jane Gray MorrisonLocated in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness (“GNH”) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals. Bhutan’s conservation strategies and success are largely driven by the strong political will and visionary leadership of His Majesty the King of Bhutan The nation’s Buddhist perspectives regarding a deep and abiding respect for nature; and the strategic enforcement of a wide-ranging stringent set of internal regulations and controls have helped ensure ecological gold standards in Bhutan. Moreover, the country is an active member of the international conservation community by fulfilling its implementation of various Multilateral Environment Agreements. While it emerged into the 21st century as one of the 36 global terrestrial “hotspots” in biological diversity conservation ranks, Bhutan’s sheer commitment with more than 51% of its territory being managed under the explicit status of a protected area network, and more than 70% of the land under forest cover, represents Bhutan’s exemplary dedication to protect the planet despite its smallness in size and economy, and the biological fragility exemplified by its hotspot situation. In the face of imminent severe threats of global warming, Bhutan nonetheless exemplifies the truth that “a small country with a big conservation commitment” can make an enormous contribution to the global community.At the regional level, Bhutan is intent upon protecting the Water Towers of Asia (that glacial expanse of the Himalayas) which is a critical resource bulwark for about one-fifth of the global population downstream in South Asia. Such protections invariably help mitigate climate change by acting as a nation-wide carbon sink through its carbon neutral policies. In short, Bhutan has long represented one of the world’s foremost national guardians of biodiversity conservation, ecological good governance, and societal sustainability at a period when the world has entered the Anthropocene – an epoch of mass extinctions.We envision this publication to be ecologically and ethically provocative and revealing for the concerned scientific communities, and governments. Through an extensive review of the scientific and anthropological literature, as well as the research team's own data, the Author's have set forth timely recommendations for conservation policies, strategies and actions. This book provides technical and deeply considered assessments of the state of Bhutan’s environment, its multiple, human-induced stressors and pressures; as well as extremely sound, practical techniques that would address conservation strategies in the Himalayas and, by implication, worldwide.
Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Environmental History #11)
by Tomasz Samojlik Ian D. Rotherham Anastasia Fedotova Piotr DaszkiewiczUnderstanding the current state and dynamics of any forest is extremely difficult - if not impossible - without recognizing its history. Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF), located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the best preserved European lowland forests and a subject of myriads of works focusing on countless aspects of its biology, ecology, management. BPF was protected for centuries (15th-18th century) as a game reserve of Polish kings and Lithuanian grand dukes. Being, at that time, a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, BPF was subject to long-lasting traditional, multi-functional utilisation characteristic for this part of Europe, including haymaking on forest meadows, traditional bee-keeping and fishing in rivers flowing through forest. This traditional model of management came to an abrupt end due to political change in 1795, when Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to exist in effect of partitioning by neighbouring countries, and the territory of BPF was taken over by the Russian Empire. The new Russian administration, influenced by the German trends in forestry, attempted at introducing the new, science-based forestry model in the BPF throughout the 19th century. The entire 19th century in the history of BPF is a story of struggle between new trends and concepts brought and implemented by new rulers of the land, and the traditional perception of the forest and forest uses, culturally rooted in this area and originating from mediaeval (or older) practices.The book will show the historical background and the outcome of this struggle: the forest’s history in the long 19th century focusing on tracking all cultural imprints, both material (artificial landscapes, introduced alien species, human-induced processes) and immaterial (traditional knowledge of forest and use of forest resources, the political and cultural significance of the forest) that shaped the forest’s current state and picture. Our book will deliver a picture of a crucial moment in forest history, relevant not only to the Central Europe, but to the continent in general. Moment of transition between a royal hunting ground, traditional type of use widespread throughout Europe, to a modern, managed forest. Looking at main obstacles in the management shift, the essential difference in perceptions of the forest and goods it provides in both modes of management, and the implications of the management change for the state of BPF in the long 19th century could help in better understanding the changes that European forests underwent in general.
The Bible and Sustainability: Bringing Biblical Passages and Practices into the Ecological Debate
by John AbubakarThe Bible and Sustainability addresses the ecological crisis the world is facing, and what the Bible can teach us about sustainable living. Drawing on the interest in the ecological debate generated by Laudato Si, this book attempts to push the discussion beyond intellectual perspectives and help students and researchers apply biblical wisdom to the UN sustainable development goals.It begins with a discussion of what sustainability is, and how people, planet, and profit are affected by unsustainable practices, before exploring four specific biblical practices and their relationship with sustainability: Covenants, the sabbatical year, monastic communities, and the fruit of the spirit. It also discusses the creation account and personalistic nature texts, considering the social relationship that humans have with nature. Finally, it examines an Augustinian perspective on sustainability which encourages sharing, common ownership of property, and living simply. The book concludes by inviting governments, civil society organizations, and academia to bring these biblical practices and passages into the ecological debate.It is an outstanding resource for researchers of the Bible and environment, and Religion and environment more generally.