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For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orr, David W. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Temas:
Sustainability.
Climatology.
Urban ecology (Biology).
Landscape architecture.
Climate Sciences.
Urban Ecology.
Landscape Architecture.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; F. Capra
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Fundamentals. 1. Verbicide
  • 2. Slow Knowledge
  • 3. Speed
  • 4. Love
  • 5. Reflections on Water and Oil
  • 6. Gratitude
  • 7. Orr's Laws
  • Part 2: On Sustainability. 8. Walking North on a Southbound Train
  • 9. Four Challenges of Sustainability
  • 10. The Problem of Sustainability
  • 11. Two Meanings of Sustainability
  • 12. Leverage
  • 13. Shelf Life
  • 14. The Constitution of Nature
  • 15. Diversity
  • 16. All Sustainability Is Local: New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
  • Part 3: On Ecological Design. 17. Designing Minds
  • 18. Loving Children: A Design Problem
  • 19. Further Reflections on Architecture as Pedagogy
  • 20. The Origins of Ecological Design
  • 21. The Design Revolution: Notes for Practitioners
  • Part 4: On Education. 22. Place as Teacher
  • 23. The Problem of Education
  • 24. What Is Education For?
  • 25. Some Thoughts on Intelligence
  • 26. Ecological Literacy
  • 27. Place and Pedagogy
  • 28. The Liberal Arts, the Campus, and the Biosphere
  • Part 5: On Energy and Climate. 29. Pascal's Wager and Economics in a Hotter Time
  • 30. The Carbon Connection
  • 31. 2020: A Proposal
  • 32. Baggage: The Case for Climate Mitigation
  • 33. Long Tails and Ethics: Thinking about the Unthinkable
  • 34. Hope (in a Hotter Time)
  • 35. At the End of Our Tether?
  • The Rationality of Nonviolence
  • Sources
  • Permissions
  • About David W. Orr
  • Index.

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