Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
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Ecology & Environment<br />
New<br />
Weathering the Climate Crisis<br />
The Way of Ecological Agriculture<br />
Climate crisis has become the scourge<br />
of the past several decades, threatening<br />
our lives and livelihoods in the most<br />
devastating ways. And its most serious<br />
impacts are being felt on the food and<br />
agriculture and food security of the world<br />
and on its majority practitioners – the<br />
small food producers, fishers and herders<br />
and, particularly the indigenous peoples and the women.<br />
But this climate change is no longer the natural<br />
phenomenon that it once used to be. In fact, today most<br />
of the otherwise called ‘natural disasters’ like floods,<br />
typhoons, hurricanes, drought and famine are found to be<br />
consequences of the climate change and global warming.<br />
This climate change – more rapid, more uncertain, more<br />
recurrent with more wide-ranging impacts and more<br />
catastrophic – is almost entirely man-made. Yet at the<br />
global level, governments and international agencies<br />
continue to evade addressing its deep rooted causes. On<br />
the contrary, the international discourse on climate change<br />
converted an essentially justice issue into one of trading<br />
options and opportunities.<br />
Publisher: PANAP<br />
2010: 157 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789839381566: RM36.60 / S$25.60<br />
New<br />
Common Ground<br />
The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for<br />
Sustainability<br />
Mark Everard<br />
The relationship between humanity<br />
and the land has shifted significantly<br />
and frequently throughout our tenure.<br />
Appropriating increasing proportions of<br />
nature’s resources to meet our shifting<br />
and growing demands, we have been<br />
degrading the quality and extent of<br />
ecosystems, perilously undermining their<br />
capacities to meet the needs of a burgeoning population.<br />
Common Ground explores this shifting relationship,<br />
examining the changing understandings of the natural<br />
world and its management and exploitation. Environmental<br />
activist Mark Everard presents solutions from the<br />
perspective of ecosystem services and looks ahead to<br />
what is required to live sustainably, respecting the central<br />
role of landscapes in supporting human well-being into the<br />
long-term future.<br />
Publisher: Zed Books<br />
2011: 214 pp<br />
ISBN: 9781848139626: RM85.00 / S$36.95<br />
Tel: +603 - 7957 8342/8343 Fax: +603 - 7954 9202 E-mail: sird@streamyx.com<br />
Website: www.gerakbudaya.com & bookshop.gbgerakbudaya.com<br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
New<br />
Dateline Earth<br />
Journalism as if the Planet Mattered (2nd<br />
Edition)<br />
Kunda Dixit<br />
The Internet has transformed journalism,<br />
changed the way we find out what is<br />
happening around us. But information<br />
overload means that attention spans<br />
are getting shorter. Journalism content,<br />
globally and within countries, is still<br />
preoccupied with what is important for the<br />
rich and the powerful. This second<br />
edition of Dateline Earth: Journalism as if the Planet<br />
Mattered, first published in 1997, looks at how to cover<br />
stories on environment and development, on poverty<br />
and injustice, with professionalism, depth and authority.<br />
Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit has devoted his career to<br />
gaining space for alternative issues in the mainstream<br />
press. Drawing from three decades of experience, he<br />
explores and analyses the links between environment and<br />
development, between the ecology and the economy.<br />
Publisher: IPS Asia-Pacific Centre Foundation Inc<br />
2010: 257 pp<br />
ISBN: 9786169022725: RM55.00 / S$38.50<br />
New<br />
An Upland Community in Transition<br />
Institutional Innovations for Sustainable<br />
Development in Rural Philippines<br />
Agnes C. Rola<br />
All over Southeast Asia, rural communities<br />
are in transition to a sustainable status.<br />
This book explores how an environmentally<br />
fragile upland community in rural<br />
Philippines coped with and responded<br />
to economic and environmental tensions<br />
brought about by a globalized economy<br />
and decentralization. This in turn gave<br />
rise to local power especially in the management of natural<br />
resources. Time-series farm and household-level data of<br />
the study community characterized upland development<br />
in the Philippines during the turn of the 21st century.<br />
Farmer stories on how land-use decisions were affected<br />
were by economic policies and environmental stresses<br />
were told and documented. As the tension between the<br />
economy and the environment exhibit both predicted<br />
and unforeseen changes, this book suggests institutional<br />
innovations, promoting a greater understanding of<br />
sustainable rural development in the developing world.<br />
Publisher: ISEAS, SARC<br />
2011: 235 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814345149: RM48.00 / S$19.90