L'âge de la transition
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La notion de « transition écologique », en exprimant la nécessité d’adapter nos modes de vie au respect des limites de la biosphère, a progressivement supplanté celle de « développement durable », jugée trop vague et consensuelle par ses détracteurs. Mais des questions subsistent, et non des moindres : vers quoi nos sociétés peuvent-elles « transiter » et quels sont les(...)
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October 2016
L'âge de la transition
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La notion de « transition écologique », en exprimant la nécessité d’adapter nos modes de vie au respect des limites de la biosphère, a progressivement supplanté celle de « développement durable », jugée trop vague et consensuelle par ses détracteurs. Mais des questions subsistent, et non des moindres : vers quoi nos sociétés peuvent-elles « transiter » et quels sont les chemins de cette transition ? Sous la direction de Dominique Bourg, Alain Kaufmann et Dominique Méda, les plus grands spécialistes de la transition écologique – économiste, physicien, philosophe, sociologue, ingénieur ou biologiste – ont apporté des réponses concrètes à ces questions urgentes lors du colloque de Cerisy « Quelles transitions écologiques ? », qui s’est tenu du 30 juin au 15 juillet 2015. Après avoir analysé les obstacles à la transition, les auteurs en tracent les voies. Des positions philosophiques et juridiques à embrasser aux technologies à privilégier en passant par la refonte de notre modèle social, les monnaies complémentaires ou le financement des investissements à mettre en œuvre, tous les aspects sont envisagés pour imaginer la transition écologique.
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The Greenpeace to Amchitka
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Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than forty countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism. This is the story of how Greenpeace came to be.
The Greenpeace to Amchitka
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Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than forty countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism. This is the story of how Greenpeace came to be.
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great(...)
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November 2016
The peace in peril: the real cost of the Site C dam
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great flood rises up to engulf the Peace River valley?
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''Growing Resistance'' is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, Emily Eaton demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was(...)
Growing resistance : Canadian farmers and the politics of genetically modified wheat
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''Growing Resistance'' is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, Emily Eaton demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was integral to the coalition’s success in voicing concerns about environmental implications, international market opposition to GMOs, and the lack of transparency and democracy in Canadian biotech policy and regulation.
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The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not taking fishermen’s concerns into account(...)
Managed annihilation: an unnatural history of the Newfoundland cod collapse
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The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not taking fishermen’s concerns into account as likely culprits.nExamining the history of commercial cod fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador from the mid-nineteenth century to the aftermath of the cod moratorium, "Managed annihilation" makes the case that the idea of natural resource management was itself the problem. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were ostensibly managed by the state, and the fishery has still not recovered nearly twenty years later. Although the collapse of northern cod raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered -- it has simply been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and farmed cod.
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The ecology of others
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. In its stead,(...)
The ecology of others
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. In its stead, Descola proposes a radical new worldview, in which beings and objects, human and nonhuman, are understood through the complex relationships that they possess with one another. "The Ecology of Others" presents a compelling challenge to anthropologists, ecologists, and environmental studies scholars to rethink the way we conceive of humans, objects, and the environment. Thought-provoking and engagingly written, it will be required reading for all those interested in moving beyond the moving beyond the confines of this fascinating debate.
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Being ecological
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Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world, and our very understanding of the term 'ecology'. A cross-disciplinarian who(...)
Being ecological
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Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world, and our very understanding of the term 'ecology'. A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Bjoerk to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity and objectivity, while also offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger and Kant. Calling the volume a book containing 'no ecological facts', Morton confronts the 'information dump' fatigue of the digital age, and offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future.
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L’évolution du fonctionnement de notre système social et économique vers la production d’énergie décarbonée constitue aujourd’hui un enjeu d’ampleur planétaire. Ce dernier concerne autant les populations urbaines que rurales, imposant ainsi une réflexion globale sur les relations qu’entretiennent nos établissements humains avec les ressources renouvelables du territoire.(...)
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May 2018
Ruralités post-carbone : milieux, échelles et acteurs de la transition énergétique
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L’évolution du fonctionnement de notre système social et économique vers la production d’énergie décarbonée constitue aujourd’hui un enjeu d’ampleur planétaire. Ce dernier concerne autant les populations urbaines que rurales, imposant ainsi une réflexion globale sur les relations qu’entretiennent nos établissements humains avec les ressources renouvelables du territoire. Cet ouvrage explore les modalités de transition vers un modèle énergétique, dans lequel la recomposition des rapports entre ressources et territoires laisse entrevoir un rôle inédit pour les espaces ruraux, lieux de nouvelles alliances humaines et économiques.
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En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du MIT rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport qu’ils intitulent « The Limits to Growth ». Celui-ci va choquer le monde. Pour la première fois, leur recherche établit les conséquences dramatiques sur le plan écologique d’une croissance économique et démographique exponentielle dans un monde fini. Leur analyse repose sur le(...)
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August 2017
Les limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini)
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En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du MIT rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport qu’ils intitulent « The Limits to Growth ». Celui-ci va choquer le monde. Pour la première fois, leur recherche établit les conséquences dramatiques sur le plan écologique d’une croissance économique et démographique exponentielle dans un monde fini. Leur analyse repose sur le modèle « World3 », qui permet une simulation informatique des interactions entre population, croissance industrielle, production alimentaire et limites des écosystèmes terrestres.
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August 2017
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Construire avec l'immatériel
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Sous la pression des grandes transitions et des aspirations de tous, l'architecture doit aujourd'hui assumer des responsabilités nouvelles, mais difficilement maîtrisables : participer à une lutte cruciale pour l'adaptation de l'habitat et des villes au changement climatique, réguler l'emploi de la matière et de l'énergie, écouter les besoins des sociétés, affronter une(...)
Construire avec l'immatériel
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Sous la pression des grandes transitions et des aspirations de tous, l'architecture doit aujourd'hui assumer des responsabilités nouvelles, mais difficilement maîtrisables : participer à une lutte cruciale pour l'adaptation de l'habitat et des villes au changement climatique, réguler l'emploi de la matière et de l'énergie, écouter les besoins des sociétés, affronter une urbanisation sans commune mesure... L'ensemble de ces transitions pose la question d'un nécessaire renouvellement des ressources de l'architecture, dessine les contours d'un changement complet de paradigme. Car ces ressources ne sont pas seulement matérielles – matériaux et techniques – mais immatérielles. Les textes de cet ouvrage, écrits par des architectes dont l'autorité est fondée sur l'expérience, ouvrent une réflexion sur ces ressources immatérielles qu'il est crucial aujourd'hui de réintroduire dans la pensée architecturale.
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