Environment and society : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore

• Autore: Robbins Paul <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetto topico: Environmental sciences - Social aspects; Environmental protection - Social aspects; Human ecology - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HintzJohn MooreSarah A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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? ; Development 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 ; Trading 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 ; Ingenious 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! ; From 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 ; Constraints on decisions - political economy of the range of choice
• Sommario/riassunto: Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on environmental solutionsDiscusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to objects
• Titolo autorizzato: Environment and society
• ISBN: 1-118-45155-4; 1-118-45154-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464754003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography