The shadows of consumption [[electronic resource] ] : consequences for the global environment / / Peter Dauvergne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453750403321
• Autore: Dauvergne Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-262-27123-0; 1-4356-6562-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects; Environmentalism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-287) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities. The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist. In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. Dauvergne traces the environmental consequences of five commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920's; why China is now a leading producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada's commercial seal hunt in the 1980's (but are unable to do so now). Dauvergne's innovative analysis ; allows us to see why so many efforts to manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of "balanced consumption" for both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better by driving a high-mileage car, eating locally grown food, and buying energy-efficient appliances; but these improvements are incremental, local, and insufficient. More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse and recycle will be reforms in the global political economy to reduce the inequalities of consumption and correct the imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability.

Policie vnveiled [[electronic resource] ] : vvherein may be learned, the order of true policie in kingdomes, and common-wealths: the matters of justice, and government; the addresses, maxims, and reasons of state: the science of governing well a people: and where the subject may learne true obedience unto their kings, princes, and soveraignes. Written in Spanish, and translated into English by I.M. of Magdalen Hall in Oxford

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389908303316
• Autore: Juan de Santa María, fray, <d. 1622.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by Thomas Harper, for Richard Collins, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Three Kings, 1632
• Descrizione fisica: [18], 481, [1] p
• Altri autori (Persone): MabbeJames <1572-1642?>
• Soggetti: Allegiance - Religious aspects; Kings and rulers - Duties; Political science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: A translation, by James Mabbe, of: Juan de Santa María. República y policía christiana.; Translation sometimes attributed to Edward Blount.; Another issue, with cancel title page, of: Christian policie; or the christian common-wealth (STC 14830.7).; Running title reads: Christian policie.; Misidentified on slip at beginning of UMI microfilm reel 1073 as STC 14813a.; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018