A sensação do universo expandindo (ou de suas paredes se fechando), a sensação de sempre estar atrasada em relação ao movimento das plantas, a sensação primitiva de se estar na fronteira do tempo… Um castelo onírico ecoando Kafka, aquilo que se esconde por trás dos movimentos de Júpiter ou Saturno, ou de que planeta seja que venha a poesia: é desta vasta matéria – e de tantas outras reflexões e percepções sutis ou agudas – que se vale Sofia Vaz neste seu livro de estreia, em tom de convers...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

O ambiente é uma área que nos convoca a todos colocando-nos perante dilemas difíceis, com forças antagónicas a puxarem-nos para lados opostos. Este livro deambula pela história, problemas, desafios e possíveis caminhos para uma sociedade mais sustentável. Faz-se um périplo pelos tópicos mais marcantes deste complexo tema que afecta, por vezes mais do que queremos admitir, a nossa vida, a dos nossos filhos e a do planeta em que vivemos.

Environment: Why Read the Classics? presents six important essays by some of the world's leading environmental thinkers on six of the most emblematic books ever written on the environment. The books – Walden; A Sand County Almanac; Small is Beautiful; Silent Spring; The Limits to Growth; and Our Common Future – taken together have been hugely important in the development of global environmental awareness, activism and policy.The essayists – Viriato Soromenho-Marques, J. Baird Calli...

The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by a narrow and dogmatic scientific training, an unwillingness to communicate to differing stakeholder needs, a refusal to accept and to manage uncertainty, complexity and value commitments, and the reduction of knowledge assessment to colleague peer review on narrowly technical issues. Times have changed. As the world faces increasingly disparate ...

The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigat...