The Human Habitat: My, Our, and Everyone’s City

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-133
Author(s):  
Bianca Hermansen ◽  
Bettina Werner ◽  
Hilde Evensmo ◽  
Michela Nota
Keyword(s):  
Human Habitat

Study of Tianjin City's Cultural Strategies in its Greenway System Plan

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 180-184
Author(s):  
Kui Li Sun ◽  
Yan Chai
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
Habitat Environment ◽  
Urban Greenway

Urban greenway system is one of the important parts in urban ecological environment construction and also a significant part of ecological human habitat environment. In the background of overall regional development, besides paying attention to district industry economy, at present we should also think over how to protect and rationally use local natural eco-environment and historical and cultural resources along with endowing the greenway with cultural connotations. This paper takes the cultural perspective of overall plan of regional development and thus provides the cultural strategies of Tianjins urban greenway planning from four aspects, namely, its capability of fusing cultural resources, bearing capability of its green space, the canals cultural charm and prospect of its tourism resources, and offers theories for the construction of Tianjins urban greenway.

scholarly journals Reparations — Legally Justified and Sine qua non for Global Justice, Peace and Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Financial Compensation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Illegal Acts

The paper assesses current rising reparations claims for the Maafa/ Maangamizi (‘African holocaust,’ comprising transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism) from two angles. First, it explores the connectivity of reparations and global justice, peace and security. Second, it discusses how the claim is justified in international law. The concept of reparations in international law is also explored, revealing that reparations cannot be limited to financial compensation due to the nature of the damage and international law prescriptions. Comprehensive reparations based in international law require the removal of structures built on centuries of illegal acts and aggression, in the forms of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism. Reparations must also lead to the restitution of sovereignty to African and indigenous peoples globally. They are indispensable to halt the destruction of the earth as human habitat, caused by the violent European cultural, political, socio-economic system known as capitalism that is rooted in transatlantic slavery. 

Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Shue
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Climate System ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Third ◽  
Energy Regime ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Strong Claim

We now know that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are interfering with the planet’s climate system in ways that are likely to lead to dangerous threats to human life (not to mention nonhuman life) and that are likely to compromise the fundamental well-being of people who live at a later time. We have not understood this for very long—for most of my life, for example, we were basically clueless about climate. Our recently acquired knowledge means that decisions about climate policy are no longer properly understood as decisions entirely about preferences of ours but also crucially about the vulnerabilities of others—not about the question “How much would we like to spend to slow climate change?” but about “How little are we in decency permitted to spend in light of the difficulties and the risks of difficulties to which we are likely otherwise to expose people, people already living and people yet to live?” For we now realize that the carbon-centered energy regime under which we live is modifying the human habitat, creating a more dangerous world for the living and for posterity. Our technologically primitive energy regime based on setting fire to fossil fuels is storing up, in the planet’s radically altering atmosphere, sources of added threat for people who are vulnerable to us and cannot protect themselves against the consequences of our decisions for the circumstances in which they will have to live—most notably, whichever people inherit the worn-and-torn planet we vacate. As we academics love to note, matters are, of course, complicated. Let’s look at a few of the complications, concentrating on some concerning risk. Mostly, we are talking about risks because, although we know strikingly much more about the planetary climate system than we did a generation ago, much is still unknown and unpredictable. I will offer three comments about risk. The third comment is the crucial one and makes a strong claim about a specific type of risk, with three distinctive features.

Cities as more-than-human habitat

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Cecily Maller
Keyword(s):  
Human Habitat

Theories of Human-Habitat Interaction

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-59
Author(s):  
Emilio F. Moran
Keyword(s):  
Human Habitat
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