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Environment and society : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore
| Environment and society : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore |
| Autore | Robbins Paul <1967-> |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HintzJohn
MooreSarah A |
| Collana | Critical introductions to geography |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental sciences - Social aspects
Environmental protection - Social aspects Human ecology - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-118-45155-4
1-118-45154-6 |
| 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 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464754003321 |
Robbins Paul <1967->
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Political ecology [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins
| Political ecology [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins |
| Autore | Robbins Paul <1967-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Collana | Critical introductions to geography |
| Soggetto topico | Political ecology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-31617-X
9786613316172 1-119-95334-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. What is political ecology? -- pt. 2. Conceptual and methodological challenges -- pt. 3. Political ecology now -- pt. 4. Where to now?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457203403321 |
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Robbins Paul <1967->
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Political ecology [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins
| Political ecology [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Paul Robbins |
| Autore | Robbins Paul <1967-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | ix, 288 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Collana | Critical introductions to geography |
| Soggetto topico | Political ecology |
| ISBN |
9781119953340
1119953340 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. What is political ecology? -- pt. 2. Conceptual and methodological challenges -- pt. 3. Political ecology now -- pt. 4. Where to now?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795939803321 |
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Robbins Paul <1967->
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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