Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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Ecology & Environment
New
Weathering the Climate Crisis
The Way of Ecological Agriculture
Climate crisis has become the scourge
of the past several decades, threatening
our lives and livelihoods in the most
devastating ways. And its most serious
impacts are being felt on the food and
agriculture and food security of the world
and on its majority practitioners – the
small food producers, fishers and herders
and, particularly the indigenous peoples and the women.
But this climate change is no longer the natural
phenomenon that it once used to be. In fact, today most
of the otherwise called ‘natural disasters’ like floods,
typhoons, hurricanes, drought and famine are found to be
consequences of the climate change and global warming.
This climate change – more rapid, more uncertain, more
recurrent with more wide-ranging impacts and more
catastrophic – is almost entirely man-made. Yet at the
global level, governments and international agencies
continue to evade addressing its deep rooted causes. On
the contrary, the international discourse on climate change
converted an essentially justice issue into one of trading
options and opportunities.
Publisher: PANAP
2010: 157 pp
ISBN: 9789839381566: RM36.60 / S$25.60
New
Common Ground
The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for
Sustainability
Mark Everard
The relationship between humanity
and the land has shifted significantly
and frequently throughout our tenure.
Appropriating increasing proportions of
nature’s resources to meet our shifting
and growing demands, we have been
degrading the quality and extent of
ecosystems, perilously undermining their
capacities to meet the needs of a burgeoning population.
Common Ground explores this shifting relationship,
examining the changing understandings of the natural
world and its management and exploitation. Environmental
activist Mark Everard presents solutions from the
perspective of ecosystem services and looks ahead to
what is required to live sustainably, respecting the central
role of landscapes in supporting human well-being into the
long-term future.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 214 pp
ISBN: 9781848139626: RM85.00 / S$36.95
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Catalogue 2012
New
Dateline Earth
Journalism as if the Planet Mattered (2nd
Edition)
Kunda Dixit
The Internet has transformed journalism,
changed the way we find out what is
happening around us. But information
overload means that attention spans
are getting shorter. Journalism content,
globally and within countries, is still
preoccupied with what is important for the
rich and the powerful. This second
edition of Dateline Earth: Journalism as if the Planet
Mattered, first published in 1997, looks at how to cover
stories on environment and development, on poverty
and injustice, with professionalism, depth and authority.
Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit has devoted his career to
gaining space for alternative issues in the mainstream
press. Drawing from three decades of experience, he
explores and analyses the links between environment and
development, between the ecology and the economy.
Publisher: IPS Asia-Pacific Centre Foundation Inc
2010: 257 pp
ISBN: 9786169022725: RM55.00 / S$38.50
New
An Upland Community in Transition
Institutional Innovations for Sustainable
Development in Rural Philippines
Agnes C. Rola
All over Southeast Asia, rural communities
are in transition to a sustainable status.
This book explores how an environmentally
fragile upland community in rural
Philippines coped with and responded
to economic and environmental tensions
brought about by a globalized economy
and decentralization. This in turn gave
rise to local power especially in the management of natural
resources. Time-series farm and household-level data of
the study community characterized upland development
in the Philippines during the turn of the 21st century.
Farmer stories on how land-use decisions were affected
were by economic policies and environmental stresses
were told and documented. As the tension between the
economy and the environment exhibit both predicted
and unforeseen changes, this book suggests institutional
innovations, promoting a greater understanding of
sustainable rural development in the developing world.
Publisher: ISEAS, SARC
2011: 235 pp
ISBN: 9789814345149: RM48.00 / S$19.90