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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Excerpts from the end of nature / Bill McKibben -- The anthropocene : are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature? / Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill -- Excerpts from the world without us / Alan Weisman -- Reinventing eden : western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- Excerpts from Laudato si / Pope Francis -- Excerpts from "The etiquette of freedom" / Gary Snyder -- Excerpt from "The land ethic" / Aldo Leopold -- Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir -- Excerpts from Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- Environmentalism and social justice / Robert Bullard -- Where we live, work and play / Robert Gottlieb -- Excerpts from "the death of environmentalism" / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger -- The paradox of global environmentalism / Ramachandra Guha -- Between violence and desire : space, power, and identity in the making of -- Metropolitan delhi / Amita Baviskar -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- How do we know we have global environmental problems? : science and the globalization of environmental discourse / Peter J. Taylor and Frederick H. Buttel -- The ipat equation and its variants / Marian R. Chertow -- Socioeconomic equity, sustainability, and earth's carrying capacity / Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich -- The next industrial revolution / William McDonough and Michael Braungart -- Excerpt from "in search of consumptive resistance : the voluntary simplicity movement" / Michael Maniates -- Overpopulation versus biodiversity / Leon Kolankiewicz -- Tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Revisiting the commons : local lessons, global challenges / Elinor Ostrom, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field, Richard B. Norgaard, and David -- Policansky -- Rationality and solidarities : the social organization of common property resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco / Peggy Petrzelka and Michael Bell -- Averting the tragedy of the commons / Mark Van Vugt -- Climate, collective action and individual ethical obligations / Marion Hourdequin -- About free-market environmentalism / Jonathan Adler -- Excerpt from "walking" / Henry David Thoreau -- Naturalness as a source of value / Robert E. Goodin -- Conservation / John Passmore -- Sustainability / Alan Holland -- Theorising environmental justice : the expanding sphere of a discourse / David Schlosberg -- More like manhattan / David Owen -- Freedom and wilderness, wilderness and freedom / Edward Abbey -- The green revolution revisited and the road ahead / Norman Borlaug -- The agrarian standard / Wendell Berry -- Earth systems engineering and management / Brad Allenby -- The earth is not yet an artifact / David Keith. |
| Summary |
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the environment in society, such as: social mobilization on behalf of environmental objectives; the relationships between human population, economic growth and stresses on the planet's natural resources; debates about the relative effects of collective and individual action; and unequal distribution of the social costs of environmental degradation. Organized around key themes, with each section featuring questions for debate and suggestions for further reading, the book introduces students to the history of environmental studies, and demonstrates how the field's interdisciplinary approach uniquely engages the essential issues of the present.--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmentalism.
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Environmentalism. |
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Environmental responsibility.
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Environmental responsibility. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental policy. |
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Schlottmann, Christopher, 1980- editor.
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| Added Title |
Environment and society (New York University Press)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Environment and society (New York University Press). Environment and society. New York : New York University Press, 2017 9781479801930 (DLC) 2016044888 (OCoLC)963230876 |
| ISBN |
9781479844746 (electronic book) |
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1479844748 (electronic book) |
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9781479801930 |
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1479801933 |
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9781479894918 |
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1479894915 |
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