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Moore 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cJohn Wiley & Sons,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 0$aCritical introductions to geography 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-45156-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: The View from a Human-Made Wilderness; What Is This Book?; The Authors' Points of View; Part 1: Approaches and Perspectives; 2: Population and Scarcity; A Crowded Desert City; The Problem of "Geometric" Growth; Actual population growth; Population, Development, and Environment Impact; Carrying capacity and the ecological footprint; The Other Side of the Coin: Population and Innovation; Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause? 327 $aDevelopment and demographic transitionWomen's rights, education, autonomy, and fertility behavior; The potential violence and injustice of population-centered thinking; Thinking with Population; Questions for Review; Exercise 2.1 What Is Your Ecological Footprint?; Exercise 2.2 Where are Fertility Rates High? Why?; Exercise 2.3 Too Few People?; 3: Markets and Commodities; The Bet; Sustaining environmental goods: The market response model; Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem; Market Failure; Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems; Green taxes 327 $aTrading and banking environmental "bads"Green consumption; Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy; Non-market values; Money and nature; The crisis of equity: Turning economic injustice into environmental injustice?; Thinking with Markets; Questions for Review; Exercise 3.1 The Price of Green Consumption; Exercise 3.2 Marketing Green Technology; Exercise 3.3 Thinking Economically; 4: Institutions and "The Commons"; Controlling Carbon?; The Prisoner's Dilemma; The Tragedy of the Commons; The Evidence and Logic of Collective Action; Crafting Sustainable Environmental Institutions 327 $aIngenious flowing commons: IrrigationWildlife commons: Collective management through hunting; The biggest commons: Global climate; Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter?; Thinking with Institutions; Questions for Review; Exercise 4.1 Enclosure and Technology; Exercise 4.2 Are Commons Overexploited Everywhere?; Exercise 4.3 Institutions Nearby; 5: Environmental Ethics; The Price of Cheap Meat; Improving Nature: From Biblical Tradition to John Locke; Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, California; Aldo Leopold and "The Land Ethic"; Liberation for Animals! 327 $aFrom shallow to deep ecologyHolism, Scientism, and Other Pitfalls; Thinking with Ethics; Questions for Review; Exercise 5.1 Pass the Bacon (or don't); Exercise 5.2 Animals in Medical and Commercial Research and Testing; Exercise 5.3 The Land Ethic; 6: Risks and Hazards; Great Floods; Environments as Hazard; Decisions as risk; Environmental conditions as uncertain; The Problem of Risk Perception; Making informed decisions: Risk communication; Risk as Culture; Beyond Risk: The Political Economy of Hazards; Control of decisions - the political economy of environmental justice 327 $aConstraints on decisions - political economy of the range of choice 330 $aSubstantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. 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