Overview
- Global issues like water and food scarcity, natural and environmental hazards, decreasing biodiversity are addressed by cross-disciplinary international experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Shortly, this book is the written up-graded version of the topics discussed during the Small Meeting of the 2nd International School Congress: Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity, held in Braga, Portugal, 5-8 May 2010 with the diverse participation of scientists, educators and governmental representatives.
The Earth hosts an immense ecosystem, colonized by millions of species for billions of years but only for a few tens of thousands of years by humans. Environmental history tells though that it was humankind that shaped the environment as no other species. History, geography, religion and politics among other reasons have differentiated populations with respect to access to safe food and water, education, health, and to space and natural resource utilization. The globalization era of trade, information and communication is shortening distances and increasing overall wealth, but, as is pointed out in this book, it is also contributing to the propagation of diseases, and to the modification or even destruction of native ecosystems by exotic invasive species.
Man is the only species that has the perception of its history, evolution, of the consequences of its decisions, and that there is a future ahead. It is also the only species that has the potential to change it. This awareness can be a source of anxiety and contradictory behaviours, but it is also the key to changing attitudes towards the construction of a common sustainable home, by committed education, interdisciplinary approaches, mobilization and empowerment of people and political consonant actions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive View
Editors: Angela Mendonca, Ana Cunha, Ranjan Chakrabarti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1321-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1320-8Published: 18 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9602-7Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1321-5Published: 17 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 201
Topics: Environment, general, Biogeosciences, Climate Change, Earth System Sciences, Sustainable Development, Education, general