Nature's Diplomats

Nature's Diplomats

Author: Raf De Bont

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0822988062

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Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its groups were still rather small, revealing the geographies of the early international preservationist groups, their social composition, self-perception, ethos, and predilections, their ideals and strategies, and the natures they sought to preserve. By examining international efforts to protect migratory birds, the threatened European bison, and the mountain gorilla in the interior of the Belgian Congo, Nature’s Diplomats sheds new light on the launch of major international organizations for nature protection in the aftermath of World War II. Additionally, it covers how the rise of ecological science, the advent of the Cold War, and looming decolonization forced a rethinking of approach and rhetoric; and how old ideas and practices lingered on. It provides much-needed historical context for present-day convictions about and approaches to the preservation of species and the conservation of natural resources, the involvement of local communities in conservation projects, the fate of extinct species and vanished habitats, and the management of global nature.


Whales and Nations

Whales and Nations

Author: Kurkpatrick Dorsey

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0295804947

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Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts —and their ultimate failure. Whales and Nations begins in the early twentieth century, when new technology revived the fading whaling industry and made whale hunting possible on an unprecedented scale. By the 1920s, declining whale populations prompted efforts to develop “rational”—what today would be called sustainable—whaling practices. But even though almost everyone involved with commercial whaling knew that the industry was on an unsustainable path, Dorsey argues, powerful economic, political, and scientific forces made failure nearly inevitable. Based on a deep engagement with diplomatic history, Whales and Nations provides a unique perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects. This history has profound implications for today’s pressing questions of global environmental cooperation and sustainability. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsLlM5KTx0


Nature & Function of Papal Diplomacy

Nature & Function of Papal Diplomacy

Author: Giovanni Lajolo

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 9812303383

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Contains the text of the Public Lecture delivered by His Excellency Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo on 17 June 2005.


Greening Europe

Greening Europe

Author: Anna-Katharina Wöbse

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 3110665786

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Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.


How to Read Human Nature

How to Read Human Nature

Author: William Walker Atkinson

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of How to Read Human Nature - Its Inner States and Outer Forms. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by William Walker Atkinson, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have How to Read Human Nature - Its Inner States and Outer Forms in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside How to Read Human Nature - Its Inner States and Outer Forms: Look inside the book: There is, however, a reaction of the Outer upon the Inner, which while equally true is not so generally recognized nor admitted, and we think it well to briefly call your attention to the same, for the reason that this correspondence between the Inner and the Outer-this reaction as well as the action-must be appreciated in order that the entire meaning and content of the subject of Human Nature may be fully grasped. ...We find nature everywhere around us recording its movements and marking the changes it has undergone in material forms, -in the crust of the earth, the composition of the rocks, the structure of the trees, the conformation of our bodies, and those spirits of ours, so closely connected with our material bodies, that so far as we know, they can think no thought, perform no action, without their presence and co-operation, may have been so joined in order to prePg 24serve a material and lasting record of all that they think and do.' About William Walker Atkinson, the Author: It is not known whether he ever acknowledged authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are now credited to Atkinson were linked to one another by virtue of the fact that their works were released by a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they also wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. ...Randolph was known for embroidering the truth when it came to his own autobiography (he claimed that his mother Flora Randolph, an African American woman from Virginia, who died when he was eleven years old, had been a foreign princess) but he was actually telling the truth-or something very close to it, according to his biographer John Patrick Deveney-when he said that he had met the Maharajah in Europe and had learned from him the proper way to use both polished gemstones and Indian 'bhattah mirrors' in divination.


The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law

The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law

Author: Malcolm Evans

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0191509426

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The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination. However, recent years have seen increasing controversy surrounding this right, in both political and legal contexts. The European Court of Human Rights has experienced a vast expansion in the number of cases it has had brought before it concerning religious freedom, and politically the boundaries of the right have been much disputed. This book provides a systematic analysis of the different approaches to religious rights which exist in public international law. The book explores how particular institutional perspectives emerge in the context of these differing approaches. It examines, and challenges, these institutional perspectives. It identifies new directions for approaching religious rights through international law by examining existing legal tools, and assesses their achievements and shortcomings. It studies religious organisations' support for international human rights protection, as well as religious critique of international human rights and the development of an alternative religious 'Bills of Rights'. It investigates whether expressions of members belonging to religious minorities can be considered under the minority right to culture, rather than the right to religion, and discusses the benefits and shortcomings of such a route. It analyses the reach and limits of the provisions in the 1981 Declaration, identifies ways in which the right is being eroded as a concept, and suggests new ways in which the right can be reinforced and protected.


Exile

Exile

Author: Denise Mina

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2007-10-10

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0316022489

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Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the Thames two weeks later, Maureen vows to discover what happened and to prove that Ann's husband is not to blame. Taking her search to London, Maureen soon encounters disturbing truths about Ann's hidden past - including a secret that has Maureen fighting for her life. "Atmospheric, intense, and full of the disturbing flavor of inner-city lowlife." -Guardian "Reads like a slap in the face - and a kick in the ribs and a fist in the stomach . . . like its powerful predecessor, Garnethill." -New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . . The danger reaches a frightening pitch."-Rocky Mountain News "Mina offers us a complex plot with a shocking ending, all told in an amazingly original voice." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "This is a terrific book." -Dallas Morning News A New York Times Notable Book of the Year


The Nature of International Law

The Nature of International Law

Author: Gerry Simpson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 1351783750

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This title was first published in 2002: The purpose if this volume is to provide a map of some of the great theoretical debates within the discipline of international law. The essays included are structured as dialogues between international legal theorists on concrete subjects such as democracy, gender, compliance, sovereignty and justice. They represent the most interesting theoretical work undertaken in international law.


Science Diplomacy for South Asian Countries

Science Diplomacy for South Asian Countries

Author: Malti Goel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9811630259

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This book provides a science diplomacy outlook as a new governance tool in international cooperation. It elaborates on India's current S&T collaboration with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and science policy and science diplomacy in India. The book introduces concepts and contours of science diplomacy with international examples. It presents insights into international governance models, mega-science projects, and science diplomacy's role in addressing global climate change and sustainable development challenges. The book is a valuable reference to spark breakthroughs in India’s science diplomacy with its neighbouring countries for scientists, diplomats, policymakers, government, and non-government institutions interested in science and diplomacy.


Segregated Species

Segregated Species

Author: Jules Skotnes-Brown

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1421448564

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"This work describes how pests have shaped the production of knowledge, in addition to their relationship with nature in rural South Africa"--