New Directions in Sustainability and Society – serie
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9 produkter
Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex
Av Alf Hornborg
Häftad, 2021
574 kr
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Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that …
Sustainability in the Global City
Myth and Practice
Av Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1657 kr
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Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the …
The Give and Take of Sustainability
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
Inbunden, 2017
1420 kr
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Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings …
Sustainability in the Global City
Myth and Practice
Av Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
673 kr
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Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the …
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Av Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling
Inbunden, 2018
1677 kr
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This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of …
Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex
Av Alf Hornborg
Inbunden, 2019
1844 kr
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Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that …
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Av Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of …
Social Sustainability, Past and Future
Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival
Inbunden, 2020
1498 kr
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In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their …
Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
Av Paul Roscoe, Cindy Isenhour
Inbunden, 2021
1351 kr
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This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time and …
