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Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen (Routledge Revivals)
by B. R. PridhamFirst published in 1985, Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen was written to present a wealth of research and thinking that was new to the field at the time of original publication. The book covers a wide range of topics, including socio-economic development, agriculture, land use, fiscal policies, emigration, health, education, and politics. In doing so, it provides a close analysis of the situation in Yemen in the 1980s whilst exploring recent developments of the preceding years. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of Yemen.
Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge
by Ken ColeAs we approach the end of the second millennium, we find ourselves in times of radical social change. Orthodox explanations of the economy, the environment and the development process are unable to provide coherent policies for such issues as employment creation, environmental degradation and social progress.Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge provides alternative perspectives on these fundamental aspects of human existence. Economists, environmentalists, and development theorists have so far been unable to agree on the most successful prescriptions to address problems. To understand, contrast and compare alternative understandings of economic, environmental and development issues, we need to be aware why theorists conceptualise the process of social experience so differently.Part 1 of Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge addresses the subjective preference, cost-of-production and abstract labour theories of values in economics; Part 2 explains egocentrism, ecocentrism and socioecocentrism as competing theoretical perspectives in environmental theory; Part 3 highlights modernisation theory, structuralist theory and class struggle as ways to account for the process of development and Part 4 examines the generation of knowedge through positivism, paradigms and praxis, legitimating competing perspectives in economics, environmentalist and development. The book concludes by considering why different people find alternative explanations more or less plausible.By addressing the disagreements between theorists, Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge provides a unique basis to contrast and compare the plethora of theories of, and policies for, economic prosperity, environmental sustainability and social progress.
Economía Política de un Estado poscolonial
by Shahid Hussain Raja Cristian Márquez RomoLa idea de escribir esta breve introducción sobre la historia del desarrollo económico de Pakistán vino a mi mente después de escribir un artículo de dos partes, acerca de la experiencia de desarrollo del primer gobierno militar de Pakistán, que gobernó el país durante la década de 1958 a 1968. El artículo fue publicado en dos entregas para el extinto periódico The Muslim durante la última semana de septiembre de 1979, apreciado por su capacidad para sintetizar el debate sobre las políticas implementadas durante el régimen de Ayub, así como sus consecuencias en el corto y largo plazo. Después traté de darle seguimiento, escribiendo ensayos de largo aliento acerca de los periodos sucesivos en la historia del desarrollo de Pakistán. Sin embargo, debido a la escasez de tiempo con que contaba durante el servicio, no tuve la oportunidad de completar el ejercicio, por lo que después de retirarme decidí regresar a trabajar en ello. Lo que tienes en tus manos es el primer volumen: un libro breve que aborda seis décadas de historia del desarrollo económico de Pakistán. En el segundo volumen discutiré los retos que Pakistán enfrenta en general, así como en términos de economía política en particular. Finalmente, pretendo plantear en qué medida se puede responder a dichos retos, de la mano de un plan de acción para hacerlo. Libre de jerga innecesaria, notas y gráficas, este libro se ubica a caballo entre un artículo que puede ser leído de una sola vez y un libro que podría llevar varios días. En cualquier caso, escribí este libro principalmente para estudiantes de estudios del desarrollo, y para lectores en general, pero puede ser útil para economistas, estudiantes, legisladores y servidores públicos, utilizándolo como un breve manual y diagnóstico de 60 años del trayecto de un Estado poscolonial, con una perspectiva sobre los cambios globales como telón de fondo. Especialmente busca plantear algunas preguntas –¿Qué salió
Economía feminista: Cómo construir una sociedad igualitaria (sin perder el glamour)
by Mercedes D'alessandroEscrito por una economista y apoyado en evidencia estadística, "Economía feminista" propone una mirada que sacude a la economía como ciencia y plantea nuevas dimensiones a las viejas discusiones sobre desigualdad y pobreza al tiempo que aporta ideas para construir una sociedad más igualitaria y justa. ¿Hay una inclinación natural en las mujeres por enseñar y en los varones por construir? ¿Nacen las bebas con una escoba bajo el brazo y los bebés con taladros? ¿Por qué el trabajo doméstico no remunerado es "cosa de mujeres"? ¿Por qué sólo el 4% de las empresas más grandes del mundo tiene una CEO? ¿Cómo es que en 2016 la mayoría de los países nunca ha tenido una presidenta? Para responder estas preguntas Mercedes D'Alessandro, economista, propone un viaje al lado menos visible de la desigualdad, un recorrido que atraviesa las ideas centrales de la economía y muestra los nuevos desafíos que enfrentan las mujeres hoy: la brecha salarial, su rol como amas de casa desesperadas, la pobreza sexista. Basado en evidencia estadística, Economía feminista cuestiona estereotipos y postula una reflexión profunda sobre nuestras relaciones sociales; al mismo tiempo, aporta ideas inspiradoras para la construcción de un futuro más igualitario y por lo tanto más justo. Porque la igualdad es un negocio para todos, y porque las mujeres ganan menos que los varones en todo el planeta, ¡y tu mamá también! «Las mujeres, mitad de la población mundial, hoy son minoría en todos los ámbitos en los que se toman decisiones de peso y donde se piensa nuestra época: parlamentos, gobiernos, ciencia, medios de comunicación, empresas multinacionales, tecnología, arte, filosofía, literatura. Disputar estos lugares implica transformar el modo en el que hemos pensado el rol de la mujer en toda la historia pasada. Es un cambio muy profundo... que ya comenzó y que es irreversible.» «Las mujeres han sido entrenadas durante siglos en las delicadas artes del cuidado del hogar y de otras personas, y todavía sienten eso como un mandato de su naturaleza, un atributo de la feminidad. "Yo me quedo en casa porque amo a mis hijos." ¿Es que irse del hogar significa desamor? ¿Por qué nunca está en juego que quien se quede en la casa sea el padre?» «La reorganización de las tareas domésticas y de los cuidados es una cuestión existencial. Implica pensar en quién se ocupa, no sólo entre las mujeres y los varones, sino también si los servicios que se contratan en el mercado tienen que estar profesionalizados. Quién paga qué cosas, cuáles son las necesidades que el Estado tiene que cubrir, qué les corresponde a las empresas. Quién cuida y cría a los niños. Qué lugar se le da a la familia y, también, qué es una familia.»
Economía feminista: Economía y feminismo unidos para revolucionar ideas y estereotipos del presente
by Mercedes D'AlessandroEconomía feminista propone, basándose en evidencias estadísticas, una mirada que cuestiona la economía como ciencia y plantea nuevas dimensiones a las viejas disputas sobre desigualdad y pobreza, al tiempo que aporta ideas para construir una sociedad más igualitaria y justa. Economía feminista presenta una mirada que sacude todo el esqueleto conceptual de la economía como ciencia y plantea nuevas dimensiones a las viejas discusiones sobre desigualdad o pobreza. D´Alessandro profundiza sobre la brecha salarial, el trabajo no remunerado, el papel de la maternidad en las posibilidades profesionales de la mujer, la feminización de la pobreza y el techo de cristal al que nos enfrentamos las mujeres en la política y el mundo laboral. «Las mujeres, la mitad de la población mundial, hoy son minoría en todos los ámbitos en los que se toman decisiones de peso. Disputar estos lugares implica transformar el modo enel que hemos pensado el rol de la mujer en toda la historia pasada. Es un cambio muy profundo... que ya comenzó y que es irreversible. La economía feminista es revolucionaria o no es, porque no se puede conseguir igualdad en un mundo de opresión, porque no hay igualdad en un mundo de pobreza, porque no hay igualdad en un mundo de explotación.»Mercedes D'Alessandro
Ecopolis: An Interactive Discovery-Based Social Studies Unit for High-Ability Learners (Grades 6-8)
by Richard Cote Darcy BlauveltThe Interactive Discovery-Based Units for High-Ability Learners, for grades 6-8, provide teachers with opportunities to use exciting and challenging units in their classrooms. These engaging curriculum units culminate in authentic performance platforms that provide students with open-ended opportunities to demonstrate academic understanding. Each book in the series contains tiered lessons that teachers can easily modify to meet individual students' needs. Ecopolis has students run their own government to learn about issues including scarcity, resource allocation, needs vs. wants, opportunity costs, entrepreneurship, and global interdependence.
Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species
by Jr. Peter H. Kahn Patricia H. HasbachAn ecopsychology that integrates our totemic selves—our kinship with a more than human world—with our technological selves.We need nature for our physical and psychological well-being. Our actions reflect this when we turn to beloved pets for companionship, vacation in spots of natural splendor, or spend hours working in the garden. Yet we are also a technological species and have been since we fashioned tools out of stone. Thus one of this century's central challenges is to embrace our kinship with a more-than-human world—"our totemic self"—and integrate that kinship with our scientific culture and technological selves.This book takes on that challenge and proposes a reenvisioned ecopsychology. Contributors consider such topics as the innate tendency for people to bond with local place; a meaningful nature language; the epidemiological evidence for the health benefits of nature interaction; the theory and practice of ecotherapy; Gaia theory; ecovillages; the neuroscience of perceiving natural beauty; and sacred geography. Taken together, the essays offer a vision for human flourishing and for a more grounded and realistic environmental psychology.
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
by Heather HouserThe 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings, and as efforts to prevent ecological and human degradation aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between ecological and bodily endangerment and uses affect and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness.Tracing the development of ecosickness through a compelling archive of modern U.S. novels and memoirs, this study demonstrates the mode's crucial role in shaping thematic content and formal and affective literary strategies. Examining works by David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marge Piercy, Jan Zita Grover, and David Wojnarowicz, Heather Houser shows how these authors unite experiences of environmental and somatic damage through narrative affects that draw attention to ecological phenomena, organize perception, and convert knowledge into ethics. Traversing contemporary cultural studies, ecocriticism, affect studies, and literature and medicine, Houser juxtaposes ecosickness fiction against new forms of environmentalism and technoscientific innovations such as regenerative medicine and alternative ecosystems. Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction recasts recent narrative as a laboratory in which affective and perceptual changes both support and challenge political projects.
Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning: Innovative Approaches and Challenges for Practical Applications (Green Energy and Technology)
by Silvia RonchiThe book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process. In addition, it presents case studies demonstrating the outcomes, limitations, opportunities and further new developments in ES assessment/mapping for planning support. Then it describes the “Restart from Ecosystem Services” (RES) methodology, which is aimed at integrating ES into the planning process using an ecological balance, and at promoting new planning parameters for the transformation areas. RES ensures the inclusion of ES in planning processes using the incremental measures of limiting, mitigating and compensating soil sealing and land take process promoting operational strategies in applying it. The implementation of RES is associated with strategic environmental assessment and provides valuable support in the definition of strategies across the entire planning process, especially for the evaluation of alternative scenarios.
Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)
by Stephen MuddimanThis book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice. Its main focus is on how the principles of the Austrian School of economics could improve the validity of Ecosystem Services.The concept of ‘Ecosystem Services’ is a relatively recent innovation in environmental thought. The current system is dependent upon mainstream economic theory, in which monetary and fiscal policy controls the prevailing health of the economy. The dependence on this approach to finance, Muddiman argues, limits the potential of ecosystem services and exacerbates the effects of the existing flawed economic model. The book highlights the links between ecological and economic methodologies and concepts and outlines how the principles of Austrian Economic theory could provide better environmental outcomes. It then goes on to formulate approaches to ecosystem services which could act as drivers towards a new biodiversity-based economic framework built around distributed ledger technology, or ‘blockchain’. The key distinction of this book is its consideration of ecosystem services as a function of the current economic system. Using this as a starting point it investigates how an alternative economic model would achieve the integration of environmental considerations into economic decision making.
Ecosystem and Cultural Services: Environmental, Legal and Social Perspectives in Argentina (The Latin American Studies Book Series)
by Clara María Minaverry Sebastián ValverdeThis book describes cases and experiences in connection with environmental and cultural ecosystem services in Argentina. It contributes to the debate in connection with different approaches to analyse ecosystem services, focusing on the environment, the Law and social perspectives and concerns. Among the topics discussed are the implementation of the National Forests Act, the regulation and recognition of ecosystem services, the role of indigenous people, the policies in place for nature and forest conservation in different regions of Argentina. This book is one of the few research studies about cultural ecosystem services developed in Latin America and presents an attractive combination of the legal, environmental and social approaches and was written by an interdisciplinary team of academics who have theoretical and practical experience in this region where there is a valuable natural and cultural heritage.
Ecosystems and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia
by E. R. N. Gunawardena; Brij Gopal; Hemesiri KotagamaThis book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region. It argues that aspects such as sources of water, its distribution and users; land–water interrelations; drivers of change such as laws, policies and institutions; management of issues and technologies related to water supply; institutional set-up; economic instruments such as pricing, taxes, subsidies; and economics of ecosystem services are crucial. Climate changes, melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, rising sea level and the increased frequency of extreme events, have to be factored into integrated management of water resources. This book addresses some of these major issues related to aquatic ecosystems and focuses on three major aspects: (a) concepts related to ecosystems, ecosystem services and their linkages with water; (b) human impacts on ecosystems, particularly the aquatic ecosystems, and their assessment; and (c) the management, including policy, governance and economics. Comprising new theories, research and case studies, the book will be useful those concerned with water resource management – professionals, students and researchers.
Ecotourism
by David A. FennellEcotourism continues to be embraced as the antithesis of mass tourism because of its promise of achieving sustainability through conservation mindedness, community development, education and learning, and the promotion of nature based activities that were sensitive to both ecological and social systems. The extent to which this promise has been realised is open to debate. Focusing on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, the volume examines ecotourism in reference to other related forms of tourism, impacts, conservation, sustainability, education and interpretation, policy and governance, and the ethical imperative of ecotourism as these apply to the world’s greenest form of tourism. Ecotourism is a growing field attracting increasing attention from students and academics. Fennell provides an authoritative and comprehensive review of the most important issues that continue to both plague ecotourism and make it one of the most dynamic sectors in the tourism industry. It covers a comprehensive range of themes and geographical regions. Building on the success of prior editions, Ecotourism has been revised throughout to incorporate recent research and benefits from the introduction of real-life case studies and summaries of recent literature. An essential reference for those interested in Ecotourism, the book is accessible to students but retains the depth required for use by researchers and practitioners in the field. New chapters on the theory and application of animal ethics; community development in sustainable tourism; and education and learning in the field have added further value to an already very comprehensive volume. This book will be of interest to students across a range of disciplines including geography, economics, business, ethics, biology, and environmental studies.
Ecotourism
by David A. FennellThe new sixth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the sector in reference to other related forms of tourism, impacts, conservation, sustainability, education and interpretation, policy and governance, and the ethical imperative of ecotourism as these apply to the world’s greenest form of tourism.Building on the success of prior editions, the text has been revised throughout to incorporate recent research, including ecotourism taking place in underrepresented world regions. It includes new case studies on important themes in research and practice as well as learning objectives in each chapter. David A. Fennell provides an authoritative and comprehensive review of the most important issues, including climate change and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Ecotourism continues to be embraced as the antithesis of mass tourism because of its promise of achieving sustainability through conservation mindedness, community development, education and learning, and the promotion of nature-based activities that are sensitive to both ecological and social systems. The book debates to what extent this promise has been realised.An essential reference for those interested in ecotourism, the book is accessible to students, but retains the depth required for use by researchers and practitioners in the field. This book will be of interest to students across a range of disciplines including geography, economics, business, ethics, biology, and environmental studies.
Ecotourism And Cultural Production
by Veronica DavidovEcotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of the issue using a case study of indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador and their interactions with globalization and transnational systems.
Ecotourism and Indonesia's Primates (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
by Sharon L. Gursky Jatna Supriatna Angela AchornThe basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia’s primates. The tremendous diversity of primates in Indonesia, in conjunction with the conservation issues facing the primates of this region, have created a crisis whereby many of Indonesia’s primates are threatened with extinction. Conservationists have developed the concept of “sustainable ecotourism” to fund conservation activities. National parks agencies worldwide receive as much as 84% of their funding from ecotourism. While ecotourism funds the majority of conservation activities, there have been very few studies that explore the effects of ecotourism on the habitat and species that they are designed to protect. It is the burgeoning use of “ecotourism” throughout Indonesia that has created a need for this volume where the successes and pitfalls at various sites can be identified and compared.
Ecotourism, NGOs and Development: A Critical Analysis (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility #Vol. 8)
by Jim ButcherEcotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and Development considers the basis for advocacy and argues that it is premised upon a very limited and limiting view of the potential for development. Jim Butcher examines the advocacy of tourism as sustainable development in a range of NGOs and within the general literature. The research reveals that in spite of the plethora of critical commentaries on the operation of ecotourism projects, there is generally an uncritical take on the ideological basis of the projects. This book offers a timely critique of key assumptions underlying ecotourism's status as sustainable development, arguing that ecotourism as development strategy ties the fate of some of the poorest people on the planet to localized environmental imperatives.
Ecotourism: An Introduction
by David A. FennellUsing a wealth of international case studies and photos, Ecotourism: An Introduction provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key foundations, concepts and issues related to Ecotourism, the fasted growing segment of the global tourism industry. Among the topics covered are: * the foundations of ecotourism * tourism and ecotourism policy * the economics, marketing and management of ecotourism * the social and ecological impacts of tourism * ecotourism and development * the role of ethics in ecotourism The book includes case studies from Scotland, Austria, the USA, Canada, Mexico and Australia.
Ecotourism: Environment, Health, and Education (Sinophone and Taiwan Studies #7)
by Wei-Ta Fang Arba'at Hassan Max HorngThis book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources. It covers various topics and case studies by ecotourism destination and ecotourism route from Sinophone and Taiwanese perspectives. Each chapter of this book includes comprehensive proposes as an important core value for planning and operating ecotourism. According to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book highlights our balanced understanding of sustainable tourism from the perspective of human ecology. Ecotourism needs to integrate the perspectives of population biology, bioanthropology, biomedicine, and public health and strengthen the connection between human ecology and disease. It is here to provide a comprehensive guide to all fascinating places for ecotourism courses. We encourage the following persons to read relevant chapters: (1) ecotourism entrepreneurs: business operators such as homestays, hot springs, ecological farms, and travel agencies; (2) ecotourism researchers: scholars and experts, university (specialized) college students, primary and secondary school teachers, and other ecotourism, environmental education, resource conservation, tourism and dining, leisure and recreation, other related fields researchers; and (3) ecotourism practice management and planners.
Ecstasy
by Bruce Eisner Foreword by Stanley Krippner Introduction by Peter StaffordThe history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.
Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation
by Richard Hammersley Jason Ditton Furzana KhanThis book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over fifty per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and normal aspirations. Through their own words we hear how they first started using ecstasy, how they use it in different ways, why clubbing and raving are so important, how good sex is on ecstasy, how they chill out, how they come down, what problems they encountered and why they quit.This path-breaking book ends by trying to answer the questions on the lips of every member of the chemical generation: what are the long-term effects of ecstasy? Because we can't answer them, the authors claim, we are failing in our duty to our children: telling them not to take ecstasy is alienating and pointless.
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World
by Felicitas D. GoodmanA cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion that offers a “unified field theory” of religion as human behavior.In this book, anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion. The analysis is divided into two sections. The first reviews species-wide human traits that form the basis for religious behavior. Goodman, in speculative examination, traces the origins of religion to the dawn of human history, when religious ritual was accompanied by gesture rather than full-fledged modern speech. Ritual is seen as being the expression of the vastness of the drama of human life, death, birth, and procreation. The common neurophysiological basis for religious experience is seen to be a particular type of brain “tuning,” the religious altered state of consciousness, a trance facilitating contact with an alternate reality. The content of this other reality is shown to vary according to the type of adaptation to the habitat.The second section describes the religious systems of the world, dividing them according to societal type. A systematic comparison shows that religions vary according to whether people are hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, nomadic pastoralists, or city dwellers.“An important book which deserves the careful attention of serious students of religion.” —Religious Studies Review“Very few such global interpretations are ever attempted—and this one succeeds . . . The book’s importance is in the interpretation as well as in the rich data base materials the book presents.” —Willard Johnson
Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy
by Robert A. JohnsonThe renowned Jungian psychologist and author of Transformation and Owning Your Own Shadow brings the hidden gift of ecstasy back into our lives.Robert A. Johnson has taken tens of thousands of readers on spiritual and psychological journeys towards inner transformation. In Ecstasy, he reconnects with the powerful and life-changing ecstatic element that lies dormant—but long-repressed—within us.Ecstasy was once considered a divine gift, Johnson tells us, one that could lift mortals out of ordinary reality and into higher world. But because Western culture has systematically repressed this ecstatic human impulse, we are unable to truly experience its transformative power.Johnson penetrates the surface of modern life to reveal the ancient dynamics of our humanity, pointing out practical means for achieving a healthy expression of our true inner selves. Through dreams, rituals, and celebrations, he shows us how to return to these original life-giving principles and restore inner harmony.
Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies (Leonardo)
by Janine MarchessaultWhen media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.janine