8 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ.org). 8 pages., Author used a social vulnerability approach with a goal of improving conditions for persons and places most at risk. "However, this approach faces serious contradictions in both the disasters and development scenes." "...The promise of 'developed nations,' build around massive use of fossil fuels, puts global and African economic growth on a collision course with environmental calamity."
Via online issue. 3 pages., Report on Wendell Berry's remarks for the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speaker suggests appreciating the word "economy" for its original meaning of "household management. ... I mean, not economics, but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth; the arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth's many ecosystems and human neighborhoods. This is the economy that the most public and influential economists never talk about, the economy that is the primary vocation and responsibility of every one of us."
Toland, Alexandra R. (author), Wessolek, Gerd (author), and Institute for Ecology, Dept. of Soil Protection, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2010-08
Published:
Austria: International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), c/o Institut fur Bodenforschung, Universitat fur Bodenkultur; Wien; Austria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08056
Journal Title Details:
pp. 8-12
Notes:
Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science: Soil solutions for a changing world, Brisbane, Australia, 1-6 August 2010. Symposium 4.5.2 Soil and human culture
12 pages., Online via publication website., Traces the development of the slaughterhouse as a specialized institution through three major periods, beginning in the 18th century. Includes consequences of modern slaughterhouses on cities, small communities, and cultural values, perceptions and tensions.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08701
Notes:
Pages 131-138 in Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss and Richard Kimbowa (eds.), Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 290 pages.
Mangheni, Margaret Nijjingo (author), Ssenkaali, Mulondo (author), and Onyai, Fred (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010-01-01
Published:
Uganda
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08696
Notes:
Pages 24-33 in Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss and Richard Kimbowa (eds.), Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 290 pages.
