本期杂志推荐书目
为喜马拉雅山脉的农户组织养蜂培训：培训者手册 Beekeeping training for farmers in the Himalayas: Resource manual for trainers M.B. Gurung, U. Partap, N.C.T.D. Shrestha, H.K. Sharma, N. Islam and N.B. Tamang, 2012. ICIMOD Kathmandu. 178 pages. Pollinator bees play an important role in agricultural production, forestry and the maintenance of biodiversity. Pollinated plants make up one third of human diets; 80% of that pollination is done by honey bees. The decline of natural habitats and the increased use of insecticides is however threatening these insects, making the management of domestic bees more important. Derived products, honey and beeswax, can also be an important source of income, nutrition and medicine. The objective of this training manual is “to build the capacity of family and other related individuals and organisations in managing bee colonies”, and with it enhance both honey production and pollination services in the Himalayan region. 非洲大陆处于威胁之中：矿藏的毁灭性挖掘与气候危机 To cook a continent: Destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa N. Bassey, 2012. Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press, Cape Town. 190 pages. Africa is rich. It has 75% of the world’s platinum metals, 50% of the gold, 45-50% of the diamonds, 25-30 % of the bauxite and 10% of the nickel and copper. In this book Nnimmo Bassey, alternative Nobel prize laureate and chair of Friends of the Earth International, gives an extensive and empirically rich description of how Africa’s natural resource wealth has turned into a curse. It shows how the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) of the World Bank and the IMF and the capture of Africa’s resources by multinational corporations have led to major social and environmental disasters in Africa and how this has contributed to the climate crisis. 在飞速发展的今天如何学习可持续发展 Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change A.E.J. Wals and P.B. Corcoran (eds.), 2012. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen. 550 pages. With a growing pile of complex information, the emergence of sustainability rhetoric that serves commercial interest, and disagreement amongst scientists, deciding what is sustainable and what is not has become a difficult task. According to this book new learning arrangements are necessary in order to address challenges like the loss of biodiversity of the use of a region’s natural resources. The first part of the book addresses the relationship between science and society by focussing on the participation of scientists in public and political debates and on their involvement with different stakeholders to co-create solutions. In the second part the authors explore how the relationship between “people” and “the planet” can be restored. The final part focusses on the role of education and learning in bringing this all into practice.