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36 produkter
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Av Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1838 kr
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This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical …
Power of the Machine
Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
Av Alf Hornborg
Häftad, 2001
553 kr
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Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical …
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Av Peter J. Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
852 kr
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The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for …
Globalization, Health, and the Environment
An Integrated Perspective
Av Greg Guest
Häftad, 2005
556 kr
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Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global …
Globalization and the World Ocean
Häftad, 2006
528 kr
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Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global …
Global Visions, Local Landscapes
A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
Häftad, 2006
528 kr
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In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that …
Cows, Kin, and Globalization
An Ethnography of Sustainability
Häftad, 2006
613 kr
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Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is …
World's Scavengers
Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
Inbunden, 2007
1556 kr
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Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism …
World's Scavengers
Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
Häftad, 2007
711 kr
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Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism …
Saving Forests, Protecting People?
Environmental Conservation in Central America
Av John Schelhas, Max J. Pfeffer
Häftad, 2009
782 kr
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Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in …
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
Inbunden, 2010
1697 kr
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Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and …
World in Motion
The Globalization and the Environment Reader
Av Gary M. Kroll, Richard H. Robbins
Inbunden, 2008
1748 kr
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The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation. Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins present readings covering all principal viewpoints on this matter, from the neoliberal belief that …
World in Motion
The Globalization and the Environment Reader
Av Gary M. Kroll, Richard H. Robbins
Häftad, 2008
805 kr
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The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation. Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins present readings covering all principal viewpoints on this matter, from the neoliberal belief that …
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Av Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
852 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical …
Capitalizing on Catastrophe
Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction
Av Nandini Gunewardena, Mark Schuller
Inbunden, 2008
1681 kr
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In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector to deal with natural …
War and Nature
The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World
Häftad, 2011
570 kr
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The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments. War and Nature sifts through the available data from past wars to evaluate the actual impact that combat has on …
Saving Forests, Protecting People?
Environmental Conservation in Central America
Av John Schelhas, Max J. Pfeffer
E-bok, 2009
830 kr
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Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in …
World's Scavengers
Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
E-bok, 2007
763 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism …
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Av Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical …
Cows, Kin, and Globalization
An Ethnography of Sustainability
E-bok, 2006
670 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is …
Global Visions, Local Landscapes
A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
E-bok, 2006
577 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate ''local'' and ''global'' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent …
Globalization and the World Ocean
E-bok, 2006
577 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global …
Globalization, Health, and the Environment
An Integrated Perspective
Av Greg Guest
E-bok, 2005
608 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet''s ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global …
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Av Peter J. Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
906 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for …
Confronting Environments
Local Understanding in a Globalizing World
E-bok, 2004
553 kr
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6 x 9
Power of the Machine
Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
Av Alf Hornborg
E-bok, 2001
655 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical …
War and Nature
The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World
E-bok, 2009
624 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments. War and Nature sifts through the available data from past wars to evaluate the actual impact that combat has on …
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
E-bok, 2010
1870 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rattle''s new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and …
Global Capitalism and Climate Change
The Need for an Alternative World System
Av Hans A. Baer
Inbunden, 2012
1838 kr
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Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism. This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits …
Global Capitalism and Climate Change
The Need for an Alternative World System
Av Hans A. Baer
E-bok, 2012
2087 kr
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Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism. This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits …
