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Citizen Science
A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development
Av Alan Irwin
Häftad, 1995
1178 kr
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We are all concerned by the environmental threats facing us today. Environmental issues are a major area of concern for policy makers, industrialists and public groups of many different kinds. While science seems central to our understanding of such threats, the statements of scientists are …
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Av Kay Milton
Inbunden, 1996
3082 kr
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The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property …
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Av Kay Milton
Häftad, 1996
1178 kr
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The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property …
Citizen Science
A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development
Av Alan Irwin
Inbunden, 1995
2525 kr
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We are all concerned by the environmental threats facing us today. Environmental issues are a major area of concern for policy makers, industrialists and public groups of many different kinds. While science seems central to our understanding of such threats, the statements of scientists are …
Saving Point Reyes
How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
Häftad, 2023
334 kr
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The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land—the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center—but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the …
Making Climate Lawyers
Climate Change in American Law Schools, 1985-2020
Inbunden, 2024
412 kr
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Why did it take so long for American law schools to start teaching about climate change? Although most environmental law professors were aware of climate change by 1990, it took nearly fifteen years for them to incorporate the topic into their curriculum. In her innovative new work, Kimberly K. …
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Av Kay Milton
E-bok, 2002
1385 kr
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The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property …
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Av Kay Milton
E-bok, 2002
1385 kr
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The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property …
Ecomobilities
Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
1143 kr
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Ecomobilities examines the ideological connections between automobiles, the environment, and the end of the world, focusing on the car’s inseparability from modern life. Through popular films addressing both mobilities and environmental disasters, Ecomobilities reveals how American automobility has …
Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics
A Green Critique
Av Krishanu Maiti, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
Inbunden, 2019
1285 kr
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Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed …
Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader
Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance
Av Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1285 kr
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This volume analyses Bangladesh’s human-nature/environment relationships in terms of development victimhood, environmental injustices, and resistance of the marginalized. It demonstrates how the popular GDP-based economic growth model helps governments undertake “development” projects, threatening …
Australian Wetland Cultures
Swamps and the Environmental Crisis
Inbunden, 2019
1285 kr
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Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the …
Art and Nuclear Power
The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
Av Anna Volkmar
Inbunden, 2022
1177 kr
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Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing …
Art and Nuclear Power
The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
Av Anna Volkmar
Häftad, 2023
473 kr
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Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing …
Global Capitalism and Climate Change
The Need for an Alternative World System
Av Hans A. Baer
Inbunden, 2021
1569 kr
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Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System examines anthropogenic climate change in the context of global capitalism, a political economy that emphasizes profit-making, is committed to on-going economic growth, results in massive social …
Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe
Inbunden, 2023
1396 kr
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In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in unexpected, maladaptive ways, nurturing conceptions of the world that are not only incorrect but enabling of …
Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption
Inbunden, 2023
1143 kr
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The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption draws on a variety of theories and research to contribute to our understanding of unsustainable mass consumption. It addresses the role of identities, social relations, interactions, belonging, and status comparison, and how perceived time scarcity …
Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide
Av Qianqian Cheng, Douglas A. Vakoch
Inbunden, 2022
1396 kr
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For the twentieth-century naturalist and poet Loren Eiseley, the relationship between human beings and the natural world has become unnatural, divided by the era of modern technology. Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide analyses how the philosopher of science becomes a …
Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide
Av Qianqian Cheng, Douglas A. Vakoch
Häftad, 2025
496 kr
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For the twentieth-century naturalist and poet Loren Eiseley, the relationship between human beings and the natural world has become unnatural, divided by the era of modern technology. Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide analyses how the philosopher of science becomes a …
Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities
Inbunden, 2022
1396 kr
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The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine …
Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities
Häftad, 2024
529 kr
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The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine …
Everyday Life Ecologies
Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance
Inbunden, 2023
1214 kr
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Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open …
Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene
Av Christopher Schliephake, Evi Zemanek
Inbunden, 2023
1554 kr
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Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were …
Learning in the Anthropocene
Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2023
1387 kr
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Learning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century reimagines the education of future generations in our complex society. Carl A. Maida argues we are living in an era of transition that has been repeatedly called an age of acceleration, and in this time of crisis, …
Staying Together
NatureCulture in a Changing World
Inbunden, 2023
1233 kr
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Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to …
Regulatory Framework to Remediate the Planet
Strategies, Outcomes and Implications
Av Robert Smet, Douglas A. Vakoch
Inbunden, 2026
1243 kr
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Ubiquitous environmental pollution and how we regulate it is now a more critical issue than ever. A Regulatory Framework to Remediate the Planet: Strategies, Outcomes and Implications develops an optimal regulatory strategy to minimize human-generated environmental harms by the generation of …
Urban Narratives about Nature
Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment
Inbunden, 2024
1309 kr
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When more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections and new perspectives on the present. Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between …
Earth Polyphony
Law, Ecocriticism, and Eco-activism in Postcolonial India
Inbunden, 2024
1313 kr
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In Earth Polyphony, Suhasini Vincent analyzes the theory of ecocriticism in its entirety, and its existence in the global paradigm of climate change. Vincent shows how a polyphony of voices can affect law and decision making in the era of the Anthropocene, and aptly shows how voices can coexist as …
Age of Capitalism, Consumer Culture, and the Collapse of Nature in the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2024
1470 kr
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The Age of Capitalism, Consumer Culture, and the Collapse of Nature in the Anthropocene argues that the stability of post-industrial, postmodern society is threatened by the convergence of three distinct, yet interrelated, crises: environmental degradation, capitalist economic development, and the …
Making Nature Social
Towards a Relationship with Nature
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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As the global climate crisis and biodiversity loss deepen their impact and gain pace, Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature provides core insights into what it means to understand our relationship to nature. This relationship is illustrated through interviews with people working …
