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Organization & Environment, 2003
This essay considers the relevance of Fernand Braudel’s world-historical studies for the theory and practice of environmental history. Arguing against the conventional viewthat Braudel regarded the environment as a backdrop, the essay points to his sophisticated layering of time, space, and nature in which society and ecology actively shape each other.
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This essay considers the relevance of Fernand Braudel’s world-historical studies for the theory and practice of environmental history. Arguing against the conventional viewthat Braudel regarded the environment as a backdrop, the essay points to his sophisticated layering of time, space, and nature in which society and ecology actively shape each other.
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Land in World-Ecology Perspectives
2022Abstract While theorists of international relations have generally understood land as a strategic resource under the purview of nation-states, a range of theories in the classical Marxist tradition have offered an increasingly sophisticated critique.
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Healing the world's ecological wounds
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2001SUMMARY In order to use the planet's ecological life-support systems sustainably, damage to them must be both prevented and repaired. However, repair requires awareness of damage which, in this case, mandates a high level of ecological literacy. Prevention of ecological damage will only be successful on a planetary scale if human society endorses ...
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Italian perspectives on world-ecology. Introduction
SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, 2019The paper introduces the special issue on Italian perspectives on world ...
Leonardi, Emanuele, Pellizzoni, Luigi
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2018
Like world-ecological criticism, Nostromo is also critical of capitalism, which is ironized through the novel’s depiction of the history and agency of a prodigious silver mine. Nostromo stages a conversation between mythic modes of knowledge and identity production and a modernity influenced rather than determined by capital.
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Like world-ecological criticism, Nostromo is also critical of capitalism, which is ironized through the novel’s depiction of the history and agency of a prodigious silver mine. Nostromo stages a conversation between mythic modes of knowledge and identity production and a modernity influenced rather than determined by capital.
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From Ecological History to World Ecology
1990“From space, we see a small and fragile ball dominated not by human activity or edifice, but by a pattern of clouds, oceans, greenery and soils. Humanity’s inability to fit its doings into that pattern is changing planetary systems, fundamentally. Many such changes are accompanied by life-threatening hazards.
J. P. Deleage, D. Hemery
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Tomorrow's world (ecological and environmental problems)
Technology Management : the New International Language, 2002Prospective advances in various areas of technology are discussed, with reference to the ecological and environmental problems produced by these developments. The new pace in R&D is considered in connection with the megabit chip, the gigabit chip, telecommunications, heat and power, new materials, and genetic engineering.
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World Ecological Areas Programme (WEAP): A Proposal
Environmental Conservation, 1980The world's remaining tropical forests are being destroyed so rapidly that, if current trends continue, by the end of this century only the most inaccessible relics will survive. This would be a major tragedy as it would mean, inter alia:(i) Destruction of the way of life of the indigenous peoples who inhabit these areas, leading to their systematic ...
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The importance of fine particle technology in the world's ecology
Powder Technology, 1973Abstract Fine particle technology has much to offer in controlling the world's ecology. Better and cheap instrumentation for sampling of particulates needs to be developed. The collection efficiencies of existing particle removal systems must be improved and novel methods to remove more than one pollutant in a system must be invented.
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Italian perspectives on world-ecology
2019The special issue addressed the thought of Jason Moore, puttin his world-ecology perspective in conversation with Italian scholarship. After an introduction by the editors, an interview with Jason Moore is proposed, followed by commentaries from Viviana Asara, Laura Centemeri, Alessandra Corrado, Alice Dal Gobbo, Andrea Ghelfi, Luigi Pellizzoni, Salvo ...
Pellizzoni, Luigi, Leonardi, Emanuele
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