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Locating promise amid contradiction is the key to environmental progress for Global Thinkers, who are showing that it is possible for a large, bustling city to be free of cars, for a small tribe to shield its homeland from powerful energy interests, and for trees -- just trees -- to protect a country from catastrophe. There is much left to learn, and even more to respect, about the natural world. These individuals serve as constant reminders of what it takes not just to live on Earth, but to thrive. The Global Thinkers include: 1. Akira Miyawaki, Bontanist, Japan, for planting trees to defend against tsunamis, 2. Ruth Buendia, Activist, Peru, for saving a homeland by letting a river run, 3. Ioane Teitiota, climate change refugee, New Zealand, for adding 'climate refugee' to the lexicon, 4. Sonja Heikkila, transportation engineer, Finland, for bundling transit on demand, and 5. John Kovac, astronomer, Cambridge, MA, for proving that it all started with a bang. Adapted from the source document.

Locating promise amid contradiction is the key to environmental progress for Global Thinkers, who are showing that it is possible for a large, bustling city to be free of cars, for a small tribe to shield its homeland from powerful energy interests, and for trees -- just trees -- to protect a country from catastrophe. There is much left to learn, and even more to respect, about the natural world. These individuals serve as constant reminders of what it takes not just to live on Earth, but to thrive. The Global Thinkers include: 1. Akira Miyawaki, Bontanist, Japan, for planting trees to defend against tsunamis, 2. Ruth Buendia, Activist, Peru, for saving a homeland by letting a river run, 3. Ioane Teitiota, climate change refugee, New Zealand, for adding 'climate refugee' to the lexicon, 4. Sonja Heikkila, transportation engineer, Finland, for bundling transit on demand, and 5. John Kovac, astronomer, Cambridge, MA, for proving that it all started with a bang. Adapted from the source document.

In early modern moral and political philosophy, the term "natural law" referred to a universal moral norm which human beings are able to recognize by using their natural faculties, without the supernatural information offered by the Bible, and which is, in one way or another, connected to human nature. Natural law had been a standard topic already in medieval philosophy, but the idea of such a universal norm received new significance as Europeans confronted and colonized non-Christian people, the Christian church itself was divided into rival confessional groups, and independent territorial states became the dominant form of political organization in Europe. As a result of these developments, the character, content and implications of natural law were widely debated in early modern scholarly literature. Even though all this was done by using concepts adopted from medieval scholasticism, early modern natural law should not be seen as a unified and evolving philosophical tradition, but rather as a series of attempts to redefine a collectively shared moral and legal vocabulary in order to justify what were often quite dissimilar political aims (see, e.g., Haakonssen and Seidler 2016; Westerman 1998; Hochstrasser 2000; Hunter 2011; Stolleis 2008). ; Peer reviewed

Este libro surge con el propósito de complementar las iniciativas públicas destinadas a crear conciencia y ofrecer a la población nicaragüense un conjunto de acciones útiles para reducir la vulnerabilidad antes que el daño potencial sobrevenga. Es una iniciativa del Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia (IPADE), respaldada por Diakonia de Suecia dentro de un programa más general en la prevención del riesgo frente a los desastres. ; Este libro surge con el propósito de complementar las iniciativas públicas destinadas a crear conciencia y ofrecer a la población nicaragüense un conjunto de acciones útiles para reducir la vulnerabilidad antes que el daño potencial sobrevenga. Es una iniciativa del Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia (IPADE), respaldada por Diakonia de Suecia dentro de un programa más general en la prevención del riesgo frente a los desastres.

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible?With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compelli

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rivers through the ages -- 3. The making and shaping of Britain's rivers -- 4. Assessing the health of rivers -- 5. River plants -- 6. Plants of riverbanks, floodplains and valley sides -- 7. Small creatures without backbones -- 8. Fish, amphibians and reptiles -- 9. Birds and mammals -- 10. A comparison of three rivers: the Meon, Dee and Endrick -- 11. Caring for our rivers once again -- References and further reading -- Abbreviations -- English and scientific species names -- Index -- Illustration acknowledgements

Sprawling and leapfrogging suburbs, as opposed to compact central cities, appear peaceful, clean, and safe. They appear happy and healthy. On the other hand, suburbs look and feel fake, dull, and alienating. Which one is happier and healthier, sprawling or compact areas? I discuss pros and cons of sprawling and compact counties drawing on social and natural sciences. I also perform a simple quantitative exercise—I regress several wellbeing/health measures on sprawl and density at county level. Sprawl is measured with Ewing's index. Sprawling and low-density counties are healthier in terms of mentally and physically healthy days than non-sprawling counties, controlling for many predictors of health. I interpret it as the advantage of low-density living close to nature. Given rather unaesthetic nature of American suburbia, I argue that if we left more nature in suburbs, people living there would be even happier.

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible?With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of nat.

This chapter discusses John Locke's account of natural equality as presented in his Two Treatises of Government. Together with its sister concept natural liberty, natural equality is often associated with the idea of Locke as an early representative of liberal political thought. Locke's notions of natural liberty and equality are seen as sings of his commitment to the values of individual autonomy and political equality held central in liberal-democratic societies of today, and his political theory is read as a more or less successful attempt to articulate those values. The chapter argues that such approach to Locke's remarks on natural equality is historically misleading, and they are best understood when we take seriously the fact that he developed his political theory within the parameters of seventeenth-century natural law. ; Peer reviewed