Avances en evaluación de impacto ambiental y ecoauditoría
Avances en evaluación de impacto ambiental y ecoauditoría

Author: Manuel Peinado Lorca

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13:

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La creciente preocupación por el deterioro ambiental que sufre nuestro territorio ha generado la urgente demanda de profesionales capacitados para la predicción, análisis, valoración y oportuna adopción de medidas correctoras del presumible impacto ambiental de un proyecto determinado, así como la aparición y progresiva utilización de una normativa sobre Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental. Esto ha creado una nueva perspectiva para la ecología y la ha colocado en el trance de plantearse las cuestiones relacionadas con un verdadero ejercicio profesional y entrar en contacto con el complejo mundo de la realidad socioeconómica de nuestro entorno. Ahora, tras unos años de aplicación del procedimiento de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental, se está en buena situación para realizar la valoración crítica detallada de la eficacia de este procediemiento que se expone en esta obra, que pretende, además de revisar el procedimiento administrativo sobre Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental, dar a conocer metodologías recientes, evaluar la calidad de los estudios, proponer nuevas técnicas de restauración y conocer las implicaciones de la Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental en otros campos. Asimismo, viene a ocupar el hueco existente en la necesaria formación complementaria del estudiante universitario. La obra, dividida en tres grandes bloques (consideraciones generales, legislación y casos prácticos), constituye una referencia básica en la valoración detallada de la eficacia de los procedimientos de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental, que, regulados por directiva comunitaria y a punto de ser adaptados a la legislación nacional, se vienen ya aplicando desde hace algunos años con el fin de conservar, proteger y mejorar la calidad del medio ambiente.

The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)
The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)

Author: Charles Saylan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0520265386

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“The hope for the future depends on teaching current and future students the analytical and critical thinking skills for dealing with the most critical problems. My own hope is for this book to be read by everyone, even those outside the field of environmental education. Read this book, read it again, share it widely, and do something - anything - to help our needy and wounded planet."-Marc Bekoff, author of The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint "Saylan and Blumstein provide a compelling vision of what can be, and what should be, if we have the courage to open our eyes and the boldness to act.”-Peter Saundry, Ph.D., Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment “A clarion call to incorporate environmental education in all grades K-12, across all academic disciplines, in order to produce future generations of environmental stewards."-Mark Gold, President, Heal The Bay "We need a sea change in the educational system. After all, if we can teach schoolchildren that vandalism is wrong, why can we not teach them that environmental destruction is wrong? This book is a haunting call to action. A beautifully written manifesto that gets it right."-Ron Swaisgood, Director of Applied Animal Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global “The greatest threat to the future of all species on the planet is the huge gap between what is understood about global climate change by the scientific community and what is known about climate change by the people who need to know -- the public. The sound prescriptions in this book need to be read now. We are running out of time.”-Dr. James Hansen, world-renowned climatologist and author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity “Environmental education is a disaster and educating the public on environmental issues is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. This book will help us understand why we are headed toward the collapse of civilization, and more important, how to fix it. Packed with sound science, useful information, and brilliant ideas, it is a book we must read, and give, to our local school boards and principals nationwide. Our children will thank us."-Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Humanity on a Tightrope

The Geography of Childhood
The Geography of Childhood

Author: Gary Paul Nabhan

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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"In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human history." "The authors remember pivotal events in their own childhood that led each to a life-long relationship with the land: Nabhan's wanderings in the wasteland of steel mills and power plants of Gary, Indiana, and in the Indiana Dunes; Trimble's travels in the West with a geologist father. They tell stories of children learning about wild places and creatures in settings ranging from cities and suburbs to isolated Nevada sheep ranches to Native American communities in the Southwest and Mexico." "The Geography of Childhood draws insights from fields as various as evolutionary biology, child psychology, education, and ethnography. The book urges adults to rethink our children's contact with nature. Small children have less need for large-scale wilderness than for a garden, gully, or field to create a crucial tie to the natural world. Nabhan suggests that traditional wilderness-oriented rites of passage may help cure the alienation of adolescence: "Those who as adolescents fail to pass through such rites remain in an arrested state of immaturity for the remainder of their lives." Trimble's fatherhood leads him to question how we grant different freedoms to girls and boys in their exploration of nature - and how this bias powerfully affects adult lives. Both authors return to their experiences with indigenous peoples to show how nature is taught and wilderness understood in cultures historically grounded outside of America's cities and suburbs." "The Geography of Childhood makes clear how human growth remains rooted, as it always has, both in childhood and in wild landscapes. It is an essential book for all parents and teachers who wonder what our children may miss if they never experience local wildlife or wild landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Urban Environmental Education Review
Urban Environmental Education Review

Author: Alex Russ

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1501712780

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Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.

The Andes
The Andes

Author: Axel Borsdorf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 3319035304

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The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political developments, such as the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela or the almost unfettered hegemony of the neoliberal economic model in Chile. This volume is the first attempt for decades to present a complete overview of the longest mountain chain on the planet – a region of remarkable climatic, floristic and geologic diversity, where advanced civilization developed well before the arrival of the Spanish. Today the Andes continue to be characterized by their ethnic, demographic, cultural and economic diversity, as well as by the disparity of local socioeconomic groups. The Andean countries pursue a wide range of approaches to tackle the challenges of making the best use of their natural and cultural potential without damaging their ecological basis, as well as to overcome economic disparity and foster social cohesion. This book provides insights into this unique region and its most pressing issues, complemented by a wealth of pictures and comprehensive diagrams, which, in sum, help to better understand these fascinating mountains.

Biosphere Reserves in the Mountains of the World
Biosphere Reserves in the Mountains of the World

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783700169680

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As model regions for balancing ecological with economic and social needs, biosphere reserves, by involving local stakeholders, are intended to test and develop future-oriented solutions for today's challenges in mountain regions, such as food security, poverty reduction, erosion, global warming and the conservation of biodiversity. However, the challenging task of implementing UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Reserve concept in an ideal manner may be a little over-ambitious. The reality sometimes shows a different picture. In this publication you will find various examples - good and critical ones - of mountain biosphere reserves from all over the world and read about the important roles they play as sites for conserving biodiversity, for international science collaboration, and for enhancing the sustainable use of natural resources.

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research
Long Term Socio-Ecological Research

Author: Simron Jit Singh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9400711778

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The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.