Environment and Society : A Critical Introduction

• Autore: Robbins Paul
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• 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 G MooreSarah A
• 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 transition -- Women'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: Irrigation -- Wildlife 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 ecology -- Holism, 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 -- Control of information - the political economy of information -- Thinking with Hazards and Risk -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 6.1 Evaluating Risk -- Exercise 6.2 Labeling Risk -- Exercise 6.3 Mapping Risk -- 7: Political Economy -- The Strange Logic of "Under-pollution" -- Labor, Accumulation, and Crisis -- Labor -- Accumulation -- Contradiction and crisis -- The second contradiction -- Production of Nature -- Global Capitalism and the Ecology of Uneven Development -- Social Reproduction and Nature -- Environmental justice. ; Gender and the political economy of environmental activism -- Environments and Economism -- Thinking with Political Economy -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 7.1 Is Waste Accidental? -- Exercise 7.2 Commodity Analysis -- Exercise 7.3 Mapping Environmental Justice -- 8: Social Construction of Nature -- Welcome to the Jungle -- So You Say It's "Natural"? -- The social construction of New World natures -- Environmental Discourse -- The discourse of North African desertification -- Wilderness: A troublesome discourse -- The Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, and the Very Material World -- What about science? -- The threat of relativism -- Constructivism in a material world -- Thinking with Construction -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 8.1 Analysis of Energy Discourses -- Exercise 8.2 What is Obesity? -- Exercise 8.3 What is Organic about Organic Food? -- Part 2: Objects of Concern -- 9: Carbon Dioxide -- Stuck in Pittsburgh Traffic -- A Short History of CO2 -- The changing CO2 content of the atmosphere -- From carbon loading to climate change -- The puzzle of carbon dioxide -- Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Carbon Cooperation -- The carbon Prisoner's Dilemma -- Overcoming barriers through flexibility: Climate treaties -- Beyond Kyoto: Toward new institutions? -- Markets: Trading More Gases, Buying Less Carbon -- Consumer choice: Green carbon consumption -- Producer-driven climate control: Carbon markets and cap and trade -- Political Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere? -- Green consumption is still consumption -- Critique of carbon trading and other markets -- The Carbon Puzzle -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 9.1 The Ethics of CO2 -- Exercise 9.2 Can You Do Better than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change? -- Exercise 9.3 Should Cities Think about Climate Change? -- 10: Trees. ; Chained to a Tree in Berkeley, California -- A Short History of Trees -- Trees and civilization: A complex relationship -- Climax, disturbance, and secondary succession -- How much forest is there now? -- The future of trees -- Trees, people, and biodiversity -- The puzzle of trees -- Population and Markets: The Forest Transition Theory -- Limits of the U-curve model -- Political Economy: Accumulation and Deforestation -- Deforestation as uneven development -- Ethics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing? -- What is it for something to have rights? -- What would the rights of trees look like? -- The Tree Puzzle -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 10.1 Trees and Institutions -- Exercise 10.2 Are Plantation Forests Useful Forests? -- Exercise 10.3 Appreciating Trees -- 11: Wolves -- The Death of 832F -- A Short History of Wolves -- The ecological role of the wolf -- Three centuries of slaughter: Wolf eradication in the United States -- The puzzle of wolves -- Ethics: Rewilding and Wolves -- Wanted: An ecocentric ethic of sustainability -- Rewilding, Part I: The ethical dimension -- Rewilding, Part II: How to get from here to there -- Wary of the wild: Deep ecology and democracy -- Institutions: Stakeholder Management -- Public participation in resource management -- Stakeholders in Minnesota wolf conservation -- Evaluating the results -- Social Construction: Of Wolves and Men Masculinity -- Man as righteous hunter, wolf as evil hunter -- Wolves save the wilderness, but for whom? -- The Wolf Puzzle -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 11.1 Wolf Conservation and Human Population Growth -- Exercise 11.2 The IUCN "Red List" of Threatened and Endangered Species -- Exercise 11.3 Examining the Wolf Hunting Debate -- 12: Uranium -- Renaissance Derailed? -- A Short History of Uranium -- Probing into nature's atomic secrets. ; The Manhattan Project and the power of nuclear technology -- The nuclear fuel chain -- The puzzle of uranium -- Risk and Hazards: Debating the Fate of High-Level Radioactive Waste -- High-level radioactive waste: Hazardous for a long, long time -- Yucca Mountain and risk-assessment site selection -- Critiques of the Yucca Mountain risk assessment -- Political Economy: Environmental Justice and the Navajo Nation -- Laboring in Navajo mines -- Cancer comes to the Navajo Reservation -- The Social Construction of Nature: Discourses of Development and Wilderness in Australia -- Terra Nullius: The British settlement of a peopled, but "unowned" land -- Development in the Northern Territory -- Kakadu National Park: Saving a (socially constructed) wilderness -- The Uranium Puzzle -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 12.1 Debating the Future of Nuclear Power -- Exercise 12.2 Should Australia Move Ahead with the Jabiluka Mine -- Exercise 12.3 Uranium Mining in the Global South -- 13: Tuna -- Blood Tuna -- A Short History of Tuna -- Bluefin tuna: From horse mackerel to ranched sushi -- The Eastern Tropical Pacific yellowfin tuna fishery -- The puzzle of tuna -- Markets and Commodities: Eco-Labels to the Rescue? -- Attempts at solutions through legislation -- Consumer activists to the rescue -- The label stays intact -- Political Economy: Re-regulating Fishery Economies -- Geopolitics of tuna -- From a Fordist to a Post-Fordist fishery -- Post-Fordist regulation: The Marine Stewardship Council -- Ethics: Saving Animals, Conserving Species -- The Tuna Puzzle -- Questions for Review -- Exercise 13.1 Eco-Labeling and Certification -- Exercise 13.2 Contemporary Commercial Fishing (and Overfishing) -- Exercise 13.3 Scientific Whaling -- 14: Lawns -- How Much Do People Love Lawns? -- A Short History of Lawns -- Turfgrasses as part of human economic history. ; The chemical revolution.
• 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 solutions Discusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to objects like bottled water, tuna, and trees Accessible for students, and accompanied by in-book and online resources including exercises and boxed discussions, an online test bank, notes, suggested reading, and website links for enhanced understanding Offers additional online support for instructors, including suggested teaching models, PowerPoint slides for each chapter with full-color graphics, and supplementary images and teaching material.
• Titolo autorizzato: Environment and Society
• ISBN: 9781118451540; 9781118451564
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795980803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography Ser.