Hope is an Imperative The Essential David Orr /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Orr, David W. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Landscape architecture.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape Architecture.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.