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Environment and Society : A Critical Introduction
| Environment and Society : A Critical Introduction |
| Autore | Robbins Paul |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Disciplina | 333.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HintzJohn G
MooreSarah A |
| Collana | Critical Introductions to Geography Ser. |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental sciences -- Social aspects
Environmental protection -- Social aspects Human ecology -- Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118451540
9781118451564 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795980803321 |
Robbins Paul
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environment and Society : A Critical Introduction
| Environment and Society : A Critical Introduction |
| Autore | Robbins Paul |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Disciplina | 333.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HintzJohn G
MooreSarah A |
| Collana | Critical Introductions to Geography Ser. |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental sciences -- Social aspects
Environmental protection -- Social aspects Human ecology -- Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118451540
9781118451564 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819895803321 |
|
Robbins Paul
|
||
| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||