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- Information society.,
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- Société de l'information.,
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- Technologies de l'information et de la communication.,
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication Aspect social.,
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication Aspect de l'environnement.,
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- Société numérique.,
- Sobriété numérique.
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Paris : Éditions Les Pérégrines, [2025], ©2025
Paris : Éditions Les Pérégrines, [2025], ©2025
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L'envers de la tech : ce que le numérique fait au monde / Mathilde Saliou.
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Paris : Éditions Les Pérégrines, [2025], ©2025
Paris : Éditions Les Pérégrines, [2025], ©2025
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- Information society.,
- Artificial intelligence.,
- Société de l'information.,
- Intelligence artificielle.,
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication.,
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication Aspect social.,
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication Aspect de l'environnement.,
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This book is the first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. The medium finds itself torn between loss and hope, between the disappearance of the silver gelatin photograph and the possibilities of the digital medium. Fontcuberta uses the(...)
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This book is the first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. The medium finds itself torn between loss and hope, between the disappearance of the silver gelatin photograph and the possibilities of the digital medium. Fontcuberta uses the(...)
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Pandora's camera: photogr@phy after photography
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This book is the first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. The medium finds itself torn between loss and hope, between the disappearance of the silver gelatin photograph and the possibilities of the digital medium. Fontcuberta uses the motif of Pandora’s box to conceptualise the capricious nature of photography, its fickle relationship to truth – employing the Greek myth concerning a large jar containing myriad forms of human unhappiness, or blessings, depending on the version you read. As Pandora’s camera, digital technology spells calamity to some and liberation to others; it is blamed for irretrievably discrediting veracity, but at the same time it introduces a new degree of truth. In his signature ironic style and playful tone, Fontcuberta examines the new principles that have arisen within the digital ecosystem, in jocular essays such as I Knew the Spice Girls or The Mystery of the Missing Nipple. His critical reflections and poetic evocations are inspired by the hope that still remains in the notion of a postmodern Pandora’s camera – one that might not only describe our environment, but also bring transparency to it.
Pandora's camera: photogr@phy after photography
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This book is the first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. The medium finds itself torn between loss and hope, between the disappearance of the silver gelatin photograph and the possibilities of the digital medium. Fontcuberta uses the motif of Pandora’s box to conceptualise the capricious nature of photography, its fickle relationship to truth – employing the Greek myth concerning a large jar containing myriad forms of human unhappiness, or blessings, depending on the version you read. As Pandora’s camera, digital technology spells calamity to some and liberation to others; it is blamed for irretrievably discrediting veracity, but at the same time it introduces a new degree of truth. In his signature ironic style and playful tone, Fontcuberta examines the new principles that have arisen within the digital ecosystem, in jocular essays such as I Knew the Spice Girls or The Mystery of the Missing Nipple. His critical reflections and poetic evocations are inspired by the hope that still remains in the notion of a postmodern Pandora’s camera – one that might not only describe our environment, but also bring transparency to it.
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novembre 2014
novembre 2014
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Théorie de la photographie
Théorie de la photographie
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Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate(...)
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Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate(...)
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juin 2017
juin 2017
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Petrocultures: oil, energy, culture
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Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors’ essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created. A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption of fossil fuels.
Petrocultures: oil, energy, culture
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Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors’ essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created. A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption of fossil fuels.
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324 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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324 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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- Urban landscape architecture France History.,
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- Neoclassicism (Architecture) France.,
- Paysage urbain France Histoire.,
- Parcs France Histoire.,
- Jardins France Histoire.,
- Néoclassicisme (Architecture) France.,
- Gardens,
- Neoclassicism (Architecture),
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Antony : Éditions le Moniteur, [2019]., ©2019
Antony : Éditions le Moniteur, [2019]., ©2019
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Histoire contemporaine des paysages, parcs et jardins : le sauvage et le régulier / Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Tangi Le Dantec.
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Histoire contemporaine des paysages, parcs et jardins : le sauvage et le régulier / Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Tangi Le Dantec.
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Antony : Éditions le Moniteur, [2019]., ©2019
Antony : Éditions le Moniteur, [2019]., ©2019
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- Urban landscape architecture France History.,
- Parks France History.,
- Gardens France History.,
- Neoclassicism (Architecture) France.,
- Paysage urbain France Histoire.,
- Parcs France Histoire.,
- Jardins France Histoire.,
- Néoclassicisme (Architecture) France.,
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- Agence Base,
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- Soil fertility.,
- Soil ecology.,
- Landscape ecology.,
- Sustainable urban development France Lyon.,
- Landscape architecture France Lyon.,
- Architecture du paysage France Lyon.,
- Urbanisme durable France Lyon.,
- Écologie du sol.,
- Écologie du paysage.,
- Entreprises paysagistes France.,
- Sols Fertilité.,
- Landscape architecture,
- Sustainable urban development,
- Sols Conservation des ressources naturelles.,
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Paris : Backland éditions, [2023]
Paris : Backland éditions, [2023]
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Terres fertiles / Agence Base.
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335 pages : illustrations (principalement en couleur) ; 32 cm.
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Paris : Backland éditions, [2023]
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- Sustainable urban development France Lyon.,
- Landscape architecture France Lyon.,
- Architecture du paysage France Lyon.,
- Urbanisme durable France Lyon.,
- Écologie du sol.,
- Écologie du paysage.,
- Entreprises paysagistes France.,
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- Human ecology California Salton Sea.,
- Nature Effect of human beings on California Salton Sea.,
- Landscape changes California Salton Sea.,
- Environmental degradation California Salton Sea.,
- Écologie humaine Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Êtres humains Influence sur la nature Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Paysages Modifications Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Environnement Dégradation Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Ecology,
- Environmental degradation,
- Human ecology,
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- Nature Effect of human beings on,
- Écologie humaine États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Gestion des écosystèmes États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Pollution de l'environnement États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Salton Sea (Calif.) History.,
- Salton Sea (Calif.) Environmental conditions.,
- Salton, Lac (Calif.) Histoire.,
- Salton, Lac (Calif.) Conditions environnementales.,
- California Salton Sea,
- Salton Sea (États-Unis) Utilisation pour les loisirs Photographies.,
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Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011., ©2011
Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011., ©2011
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Greetings from the Salton Sea : folly and intervention in the southern California landscape, 1905-2005 / Kim Stringfellow.
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Greetings from the Salton Sea : folly and intervention in the southern California landscape, 1905-2005 / Kim Stringfellow.
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Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011., ©2011
Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011., ©2011
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- Human ecology California Salton Sea.,
- Nature Effect of human beings on California Salton Sea.,
- Landscape changes California Salton Sea.,
- Environmental degradation California Salton Sea.,
- Écologie humaine Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Êtres humains Influence sur la nature Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Paysages Modifications Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Environnement Dégradation Californie Salton, Lac.,
- Ecology,
- Environmental degradation,
- Human ecology,
- Landscape changes,
- Nature Effect of human beings on,
- Écologie humaine États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Gestion des écosystèmes États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Pollution de l'environnement États-Unis Salton Sea (États-Unis) Photographies.,
- Salton Sea (Calif.) History.,
- Salton Sea (Calif.) Environmental conditions.,
- Salton, Lac (Calif.) Histoire.,
- Salton, Lac (Calif.) Conditions environnementales.,
- California Salton Sea,
- Salton Sea (États-Unis) Utilisation pour les loisirs Photographies.,
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Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. Studies of the health consequences of(...)
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Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. Studies of the health consequences of(...)
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Urban place : reconnecting with the natural world
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Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. Studies of the health consequences of renewing a connection with nature support the urgency of providing green surroundings as cities expand and the majority of the earth's population lives in urban areas. Medical research results, from groups as diverse as healthy volunteers, surgery patients, and heart attack survivors, suggest that contact with nature may improve health and well-being. Engagement with nearby natural places also provides restoration from mental fatigue and support for more resilient and cooperative behavior. Aspects of stronger community life are fostered by access to nature, suggesting that there are significant social as well as physical and psychological benefits from connection with the natural world. This volume brings together research from anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, and landscape architecture to highlight how awareness of locale and a meaningful renewal of attachment with the earth are connected to delight in learning about nature as well as to civic action and new forms of community. Community garden coalitions, organic market advocates, and greenspace preservationists resist the power of global forces, enacting visions of a different future. Their creative efforts tell a story of a constructive and dynamic middle ground between private plots and public action, between human health and ecosystem health, between individual attachment and urban sustainability.
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Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. Studies of the health consequences of renewing a connection with nature support the urgency of providing green surroundings as cities expand and the majority of the earth's population lives in urban areas. Medical research results, from groups as diverse as healthy volunteers, surgery patients, and heart attack survivors, suggest that contact with nature may improve health and well-being. Engagement with nearby natural places also provides restoration from mental fatigue and support for more resilient and cooperative behavior. Aspects of stronger community life are fostered by access to nature, suggesting that there are significant social as well as physical and psychological benefits from connection with the natural world. This volume brings together research from anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, and landscape architecture to highlight how awareness of locale and a meaningful renewal of attachment with the earth are connected to delight in learning about nature as well as to civic action and new forms of community. Community garden coalitions, organic market advocates, and greenspace preservationists resist the power of global forces, enacting visions of a different future. Their creative efforts tell a story of a constructive and dynamic middle ground between private plots and public action, between human health and ecosystem health, between individual attachment and urban sustainability.
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janvier 1900, Cambridge, London
janvier 1900, Cambridge, London
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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- Zaga Mendez, Alejandra,,
- Bissonnette, Jean-Franc̦ois, 1983-,
- Dupras, Jérôme, 1979-,
- Mulcair, Tom, 1954-,
- Université du Québec en Outaouais,
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- Environmental economics Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Natural resources Québec (Province) Management Congresses.,
- Environmental disasters Political aspects Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Sustainable development Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Environmental economics Québec (Province),
- Natural resources Québec (Province) Management.,
- Économie de l'environnement Québec (Province),
- Économie de l'environnement Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Crise écologique Aspect politique Québec (Province),
- Développement territorial durable Québec (Province),
- Écologisation Québec (Province),
- Ressources naturelles Québec (Province) Gestion.,
- Ressources naturelles Québec (Province) Gestion Congrès.,
- Catastrophes écologiques Aspect politique Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Développement durable Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Environmental economics,
- Natural resources Management,
- Sustainable development,
- Québec,
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Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2022], ©2022
Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2022], ©2022
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Une économie écologique pour le Québec : comment opérationnaliser une nécessaire transition / sous la direction de Alejandra Zaga Mendez, Jean-François Bissonnette et Jérôme Dupras ; préface de Thomas Mulcair ; avec la collaboration de Joseph Ament [et 36 autres].
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Une économie écologique pour le Québec : comment opérationnaliser une nécessaire transition / sous la direction de Alejandra Zaga Mendez, Jean-François Bissonnette et Jérôme Dupras ; préface de Thomas Mulcair ; avec la collaboration de Joseph Ament [et 36 autres].
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Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2022], ©2022
Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2022], ©2022
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- Zaga Mendez, Alejandra,,
- Bissonnette, Jean-Franc̦ois, 1983-,
- Dupras, Jérôme, 1979-,
- Mulcair, Tom, 1954-,
- Université du Québec en Outaouais,
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- Environmental economics Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Natural resources Québec (Province) Management Congresses.,
- Environmental disasters Political aspects Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Sustainable development Québec (Province) Congresses.,
- Environmental economics Québec (Province),
- Natural resources Québec (Province) Management.,
- Économie de l'environnement Québec (Province),
- Économie de l'environnement Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Crise écologique Aspect politique Québec (Province),
- Développement territorial durable Québec (Province),
- Écologisation Québec (Province),
- Ressources naturelles Québec (Province) Gestion.,
- Ressources naturelles Québec (Province) Gestion Congrès.,
- Catastrophes écologiques Aspect politique Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Développement durable Québec (Province) Congrès.,
- Environmental economics,
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- Sustainable development,
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- Community development, Urban Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Neighborhood planning Québec (Province) Montréal Citizen participation.,
- Economic development Social aspects Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Revitalisation urbaine intégrée Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Culture et développement Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Développement communautaire urbain Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Communs urbains Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Quartiers (Urbanisme) Planification Québec (Province) Montréal Participation des citoyens.,
- Community development, Urban,
- Economic development Social aspects,
- Saint-Michel (Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, Montréal, Québec) Civilisation.,
- Saint-Michel (Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, Montréal, Québec) Politique culturelle.,
- Québec Montréal,
- Case studies,
- Études de cas.
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Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2025], ©2025
Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2025], ©2025
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Les communs culturels : réinventer les milieux de vie du quartier Saint-Michel / Laurent Dambre-Sauvage, Juan-Luis Klein et Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay.
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Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2025], ©2025
Québec (Québec) : Presses de l'Université du Québec, [2025], ©2025
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- Community development, Urban Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Neighborhood planning Québec (Province) Montréal Citizen participation.,
- Economic development Social aspects Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Revitalisation urbaine intégrée Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Culture et développement Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Développement communautaire urbain Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Communs urbains Québec (Province) Montréal.,
- Quartiers (Urbanisme) Planification Québec (Province) Montréal Participation des citoyens.,
- Community development, Urban,
- Economic development Social aspects,
- Saint-Michel (Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, Montréal, Québec) Civilisation.,
- Saint-Michel (Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, Montréal, Québec) Politique culturelle.,
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Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much more than that, too: epidemic vectors, churners of soil, ecosystem evolvers, spiritual lodestars, and, sometimes, sharp-toothed(...)
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Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much more than that, too: epidemic vectors, churners of soil, ecosystem evolvers, spiritual lodestars, and, sometimes, sharp-toothed(...)
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Our wild familiars: How animals are adapting to cities and reshaping the natural world
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Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much more than that, too: epidemic vectors, churners of soil, ecosystem evolvers, spiritual lodestars, and, sometimes, sharp-toothed marauders making their way through our most intimate spaces with cruel intent. But beyond their quotidian impact on our lives, synanthropes have a critical part to play in how our communities are shaped and how sustainably they function. These creatures are ambassadors from nature, arbiters of our planet’s future, and a key influence on our species’ ongoing evolution; and recently, something essential has shifted with them. We are in a fraught era of environmental disruption, habitat destruction, and human population expansion that is ravaging formerly wild and untouched habitats. That’s caused us to become ever more inundated with synanthropes, which are bringing delight, chaos and danger to our doorstep. These species, so long dismissed, are forcing us to reckon with them—from the hundreds of thousands of raccoons in urban spaces that spread our refuse no matter how many “raccoon-proof” bags and bins we invent, to the invasive kudzu plants that grow a foot a day, enveloping houses, telephone poles, trees, and any other structures into their green abyss. Now, as urban spaces increasingly become wild spaces, we have a choice: continue to resist them by any means necessary, or take the opportunity to promote a more harmonious coexistence. Through vivid storytelling, ''Our Wild Familiars'' brings to spectacular life the world’s most successful synanthropes, from bats, raccoons, and crows, to some of its weirdest, including the Giant Pacific Octopus. Acting as a guide to the curious, Werb reveals how the cracks in our millennia-long efforts to shield ourselves against the outside world might just lead us to a new and necessary balance with nature—or to an ever more savage future.
Our wild familiars: How animals are adapting to cities and reshaping the natural world
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Résumé:
Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much more than that, too: epidemic vectors, churners of soil, ecosystem evolvers, spiritual lodestars, and, sometimes, sharp-toothed marauders making their way through our most intimate spaces with cruel intent. But beyond their quotidian impact on our lives, synanthropes have a critical part to play in how our communities are shaped and how sustainably they function. These creatures are ambassadors from nature, arbiters of our planet’s future, and a key influence on our species’ ongoing evolution; and recently, something essential has shifted with them. We are in a fraught era of environmental disruption, habitat destruction, and human population expansion that is ravaging formerly wild and untouched habitats. That’s caused us to become ever more inundated with synanthropes, which are bringing delight, chaos and danger to our doorstep. These species, so long dismissed, are forcing us to reckon with them—from the hundreds of thousands of raccoons in urban spaces that spread our refuse no matter how many “raccoon-proof” bags and bins we invent, to the invasive kudzu plants that grow a foot a day, enveloping houses, telephone poles, trees, and any other structures into their green abyss. Now, as urban spaces increasingly become wild spaces, we have a choice: continue to resist them by any means necessary, or take the opportunity to promote a more harmonious coexistence. Through vivid storytelling, ''Our Wild Familiars'' brings to spectacular life the world’s most successful synanthropes, from bats, raccoons, and crows, to some of its weirdest, including the Giant Pacific Octopus. Acting as a guide to the curious, Werb reveals how the cracks in our millennia-long efforts to shield ourselves against the outside world might just lead us to a new and necessary balance with nature—or to an ever more savage future.
Classification:
livres
livres
Publication:
juillet 2026
juillet 2026
Sujet:
Faune et flore
Faune et flore
