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Laghukath�a me�m pary�avara�na
Selected short stories on environmental protection by various Hindi authors.
Biophilic architecture in artificial environments: insights from sci-fi cinema
Space tourism is rapidly advancing in both feasibility and popularity, yet architects still lack established frameworks for designing in outer space. Science fiction films increasingly depict expansive space megastructures with biophilic elements that are not only visually captivating but also serve as conceptual experiments for potential future habitats beyond Earth. This research employs a two-phase mixed-methods approach: first, a visual analysis of scenes from the film
Passengers
, using Kellert’s biophilic design framework to identify and quantify design elements and attributes; second, a comparative analysis of three recent biophilic design frameworks. The paper introduces the Biophilic Architecture Integration Model (BAIM), a tailored framework for designing in extreme environments, such as outer space, offering guidance for future architectural projects in artificial and challenging settings. By exploring how cinematic portrayals of space settlements shape our perceptions of life beyond Earth, the study highlights the significance of these representations in influencing our understanding of nature in futuristic contexts. Ultimately, the paper calls for expanding biophilic design beyond Earth-based architecture, advocating for its incorporation into speculative designs in cinema and artificial environments.
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The devil's breath
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
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CORPORATE LIABILITY IN ENERGY-RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES
A corporate liability for energy-related environmental damages is a key area of environmental law, especially globally, which is facing rising energy demand, the growing role of energy resource development and environmental issues. The legal regime of corporate accountability for the environmental damage of energy companies and firms It concentrates on the essential principles of tortious and statutory liability, specifically on negligence, nuisance and faultless liability. The study further delves into critical legal mechanisms such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act(CERCLA) in the US, the Environmental Liability Directive in the EU, and the Environment Protection Act in India, and assesses their capacities in enforcing corporate accountability against environmental damage. It also performs a comparative study of legal doctrine and regulatory responses in different jurisdictions. Consider, for instance, U.S. environmental statutes like CERCLA that impose strict liability for releases of hazardous substances, and the emphasis in the European Union on the \"polluter pays\" principle under the Environmental Liability Directive. The changed legal fiction in India, as the great judgments like M.C. Such case laws are at the heart of the analysis the paper carries out evaluating the approaches of the courts of different jurisdictions with regards to the issues related to holding corporations responsible for environmental degradation through energy producing activities. The paper also deals with corporate defences — the permit defence, corporate veil, and due diligence-defences — as well. The paper ends with a glimmer of new trends in this respect, especially in the form of climate change litigation, and makes some policy recommendations to improve the corporate accountability for environmental harm. By providing scholarly scrutiny in this way, this Paper reiterates the necessity of concerted international legal regime and enforcement mechanisms to enforce corporate accountability on environmental protection.
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Heartbeat
Separated from her mother, a young whale swims the oceans for decades until she finds a young girl who shares her vision of one planet for which all are responsible.
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Eco-Rebels with a Cause: Introduction to a Humanities Special Issue
In a time when global environmental initiatives might lose traction in the face of armed conflicts and war, it is important to maintain focus on the long-term measures required to protect natural habitats, prevent species loss, and champion environmental justice [...]
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The Seekers
Brothers Mio and Nao learn that the old stories of spirits are true when they lead a group of villagers to find out what is stopping the river. Features backlit papercut illustrations.
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Industrial Heritage Protection from the Perspective of Spatial Narrative
Industrial heritage has historical and cultural value and reuse potential. Urban industrialization has a significant social influence on place identity and emotional identity. Shougang Science Fiction Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as “Shougang Park”) serves as one of the first pilot projects for the transformation of old industrial areas in China. This study examines Shougang Park through a spatial narrative lens, analyzing its industrial heritage via the “author-text-reader” framework. Research reveals the specific implications of the three dimensions and the connections behind them. The findings offer practical strategies for experiential tourism design and adaptive reuse planning, while establishing theoretical models applicable to global post-industrial heritage revitalization.
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The overstory : a novel
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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The Art of Interspecies Care
Care is work, an attitude toward others, and an ethical ideal. The intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, it is a limited resource unjustly extracted from women and people of color. Care ethics provides robust arguments for recognizing human interdependency with and accountability to the environments in which we are embedded, however it often reaches an impasse when forced to determine hierarchies of need, especially when they expand their consideration to nonhuman lives. This essay takes those places of confounding blockage as an invitation to explore the messier and morally ambiguous domain of the arts. It considers works of literature, visual, and performance art that engage questions about care beyond the human, attempting to navigate with and through the impasses that so trouble moral philosophers. Thought provoking and deeply imperfect, these imaginative works attempt to expand the contours of dignified and just interspecies care but also to generate new perspective on the places where that project fails.
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