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Architecture and the ecological crisis

2020
This thesis examines the need for an architectural response to the worsening global ecological crisis. It traces the historical roots of humankind’s relationship with nature and identifies the underlying basis of prevalent attitudes toward the environment.
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Philosophy and Ecological Crisis

2007
Humankind is caught in an escalating spiral of ecological, social and cultural destruction, of material and spiritual deprivation, and of a cancerous homogenization and “uglification” of the human life-worlds. Cancer and addiction are the universal metaphors of our time—cancerous, deadly growth and addiction to a suicidal and alienating life-style ...
Ullrich Melle, K. U. Leuven
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The Economics of the Ecological Crisis

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
The aim of this paper is to acquire feasible and practical solutions to climate change. Alternatives to the existing economic system are examined from a interdisciplinary philosophical and politico-economical perspectives. Two mechanisms have been proposed to internalize natural capital as a solution to the ecological crisis: carbon markets and carbon ...
Wung Yip Chan, Marius de Geus
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Modernity and Ecological Crisis

Islamic Studies
This paper critically examines modernity and prevailing conceptions of development, highlighting their role in the degradation and destruction of nature. It argues that over the past four centuries, nature has been reduced from a sacred and living realm to a lifeless object, valued primarily for its material utility to humankind. Drawing on Wael Hallaq’
Zafar Mohyuddin, Atta Muhammad
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Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis

BioScience, 1970
The message is going out that humanity is in the midst of an environmental crisis of global proportions. Two processes appear to be out of control--population growth and technology. Millions of our race are malnourished and hungry, our urban areas are growing more dense and are reaching out like a cancer into the surrounding countryside, our air and ...
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Ecological Crisis - a Crisis of the Man

Zbornik sažetaka 22. Lošinjski dani bioetike
While, according to the Christian concept of integral ecology, a man as a being should be in harmony with God, people and nature, the ecological crisis disrupts that harmony and those very relationships. Therefore, some Christian authors will take notice that the ecological crisis is actually a human crisis and to a certain extent a reflection of man's
Japundžić, Antun, Zubac, Ivan
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Integrity and the Ecological Crisis

Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities, 1972
Population pressures represent the ultimate force driving all organized societies to exceed their resources, and unless that force is brought under control, nothing else can matter for long. If the population explosion is to be brought under control, it will be through education or coercion on one hand, or by war, pestilence, or famine on the other. In
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Media and the Ecological Crisis

2014
Introduction: Media Ecology Recycled Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen, and Nina Lager Vestberg Part 1: New Media Materialism 1. Powering the Digital: From Energy Ecologies to Electronic Environmentalism Jennifer Gabrys 2. Immaterial Culture? The (Un)Sustainability of Screens Paul Micklethwaite 3.Damaged Nature: The Media Ecology of Auto-destructive Art ...
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How a water-resources crisis highlights social-ecological disconnects

Water Research, 2021
Jan-Claas Dajka, Joshua R Gittins
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Commodity traders in a storm: financialization, corporate power and ecological crisis

Review of International Political Economy, 2022
Joseph Stanislaw Baines, Sandy Brian Hager   +1 more
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