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Author : Michel Serres
Release : 1995
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 493/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Natural Contract by : Michel Serres
Download or read book The Natural Contract written by Michel Serres. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations on environmental change and the necessity of a pact between Earth and its inhabitants
Author : Patrick Huntjens
Release : 2021-03-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Towards a Natural Social Contract by : Patrick Huntjens
Download or read book Towards a Natural Social Contract written by Patrick Huntjens. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huntjens, argues that overcoming these existential challenges will require a fundamental shift from our current anthropocentric and economic growth-oriented approach to a more ecocentric and regenerative approach. He advocates for a Natural Social Contract that emphasizes long-term sustainability and the general welfare of both humankind and planet Earth. Achieving this crucial balance calls for an end to unlimited economic growth, overconsumption and over-individualisation for the benefit of ourselves, our planet, and future generations. To this end, sustainability, health, and justice in all social-ecological systems will require systemic innovation and prioritizing a collective effort. The Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation (TSEI) framework presented in this book serves that cause. It helps to diagnose and advance innovation and spur change across sectors, disciplines, and at different levels of governance. Altogether, TSEI identifies intervention points and formulates jointly developed and shared solutions to inform policymakers, administrators, concerned citizens, and professionals dedicated towards a more sustainable, healthy and just society. A wide readership of students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in social innovation, transition studies, development studies, social policy, social justice, climate change, environmental studies, political science and economics will find this cutting-edge book particularly useful. “As a sustainability transition researcher, I am truly excited about this book. Two unique aspects of the book are that it considers bigger transformation issues (such as societies’ relationship with nature, purpose and justice) than those studied in transition studies and offers analytical frameworks and methods for taking up the challenge of achieving change on the ground.” - Prof. Dr. René Kemp, United Nations University and Maastricht Sustainability Institute
Author : Shortcut Edition
Release : 2021-06-23
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis SUMMARY - The Natural Contract (Studies In Literature And Science) By Michel Serres by : Shortcut Edition
Download or read book SUMMARY - The Natural Contract (Studies In Literature And Science) By Michel Serres written by Shortcut Edition. This book was released on 2021-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will discover why, for its own survival, humanity must establish a contract with nature and enshrine it in its law. You will also discover : why nature is the great forgotten of law; how the philosophical positioning of current Western societies harms nature; why human law and nature have always been in conflict; what a new way of looking at the Earth for the survival of mankind. Gradually in history, human beings have considered that nature was under the yoke of its law. Yet today, the impact of nature on societies is blatant. It is therefore becoming obvious to everyone that it is no longer possible to use the Earth as an inexhaustible resource. It is therefore necessary to understand why nature has thus been excluded from human rights. How and why should you reconsider your point of view on nature in order to save the living? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Author : Newt Gingrich
Release : 2007-11-01
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Contract with the Earth by : Newt Gingrich
Download or read book A Contract with the Earth written by Newt Gingrich. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of the book—a ten-point Contract with the Earth—promotes ingenuity over rhetoric as the way forward.
Author : Michel Serres
Release : 2016-10-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Five Senses by : Michel Serres
Download or read book The Five Senses written by Michel Serres. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
