| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 626 p.) : ill. |
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IT Carlow ebook |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, Inc., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 3, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction to Environment and Society / Jules Pretty, Andrew S. Ball, Ted Benton, Julia S. Guivant, David R. Lee, David Orr, Max J. Pfeffer and Hugh Ward -- Sect. I. Environmental thought: past and present -- 2. Humans and nature: from Locke and Rousseau to Darwin and Wallace / Ted Benton -- 3. Anarchism, libertarianism and Environmentalism: Anti-Authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-Organizing Societies / Damian F. While and Gideon Kossoff -- 4. Ecofeminism: linking gender and ecology / Mary Mellor -- 5. Deep ecology / Ted Benton -- 6. Greening the left? From Marx to World-System Theory / Ted Benton -- 7. Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment: Problems that Any General Ethics Must Be Able to Address / Warwick Fox -- 8. Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond / Damian F. While, Alan P. Rudy and Chris Wilbert -- Sect. II. Valuing the Environment -- 9. Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instalments / Thomas D. Crocker -- 10. Valuing Preferences Regarding Environmental Change / Ian J. Bateman -- 11. Economic valuation of ecosystem services / Randall A. Kramer -- 12. Assessing Environment-Development Tradeoffs: A Developing Country Perspective / David R. Lee -- 13. Waler Policy, Economics and the EU Water Framework Directive / Joe Morris -- Sect. III. Knowledges and Knowing -- 14. Ecological Design and Education / David W. Orr -- 15. Knowing Systems and the Environment / Richard Bawden -- 16. Volunteer Environmental Monitoring, Knowledge Creation and Citizen - Scientist Interaction / Max J. Pfeffer and Linda P. Wagenet -- 17. Environmental Ethics / Vol Plumwood -- 18. Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability / Luisa Maffi -- Sect. IV. Political Economy of Environmental Change -- 19. Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution / Ron Johnston -- 20. Political ecology from landscapes to genomes: science and interests / Ronald J. Herring -- 21. Protest Movements, Environmental activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom / Steven Griggs and David R. Howarth -- 22. Faces of the Sustainability Transition / Tim O'Riordan -- 23. Greening of Business: Opportunity or Contradiction? / Christina Page and Amory Lovins -- Sect. V. Environmental Technologies -- 24. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change / Thomas J. Wilbanks and Patricia Romero-Lankao -- 25. Healthy Environments / Howard Frumkin -- 26. Air Pollution: History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change / Ian Colbeck -- 27. Terrestrial Environments, Soils and Bioremediation / Andrew S. Ball -- 28. Regenerating Aquaculture - Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management, Livelihoods and Conservation / Stuart W. Bunting -- 29. Shopping for Green Food in Globalizing Supermarkets: Sustainability at the Consumption Junction / Peter Oosterveer, Julia S. Guivant and Gert Spaargaren -- Sect. VI. Redesigning Natures -- 30. Healthy Ecosystems: An Evolving Paradigm / David J. Rapport -- 31. Environment and Human Security / Laura Little and Chris Cocklin -- 32. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems / Jules Pretty -- 33. Animals and Society / Henry Buller and Carol Morris -- 34. Social Change and Conservation / Madhav Gadgil -- 35. Coral Reefs and People / David Smith, Sarah Pilgrim and Leanne Cullen -- Sect. VII. Institutions and Policies for Influencing the Environment -- 36. Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy / Jonathan Hastie -- 37. Interdependent Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services / Carl Folke, Johan Colding, Per Olsson and Thomas Hahn -- 38. Contested Ground in Nature Protection: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management / Steven R. Brechin, Grant Murray and Charles Benjamin -- 39. Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal / Harini Nagendra and Elinor Ostrom -- 40. Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies / Albert Weale -- 41. Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions / Ulrich Beck and Cordula Kropp. |
| Summary |
Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links. |
| Subject(s) |
Environmental sciences.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| Alt Title |
Environment and society |
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Sage eReference
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| Alt Author |
Pretty, Jules N.
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Sage Publications, inc.
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Sage eReference (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9781848607873 (electronic bk.) |
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1848607873 (electronic bk.) |
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9781412918435 (hbk.) |
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141291843X (hbk.) |
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