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-> | ||
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Independent thinking in an uncertain world a mind of one's own / / edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and David Waltner-Toews |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Nature - Effect of human beings on
Human ecology - Social aspects |
ISBN |
0-429-42640-2
0-429-76086-8 0-429-76087-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thinking for oneself : outside the square / Valerie A. Brown -- Collective learning : joining the dots / Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert & John A. Harris -- Multiple dimensions of mind : parts and wholes / Valerie A. Brown -- Celebrating difference : on not losing one's mind / David Waltner-Toews & Ellen Wall -- Multiple minds : the more we are together / John A. Harris -- Multiple voices : so say all of us / Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris -- Post-normal reconciliation : reframing the agenda / Kerry A. Arabena -- Sophia in the anthropocene : towards an environmental ethic / Dianne E. Dibley -- The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind / Charles J. Massy -- Escaping the "circular conundrum" : cropping and learning in Northern Australia / Kathryn E. Andrews -- Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world / David Waltner-Toews -- Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia / Richard M. Thackway & Mark W. Gardner -- Transcoherence : labels and wicked problems / Craig A. Ashurst -- Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation / Julia H. Wolfson -- Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research / Elizabeth A Clarke, Rebecca Freeth, and Dena Fam -- Life and change for a regenerative farmer / David S. Marsh -- That's how the light gets in / David Waltner-Toews -- Knowing our own minds / David Waltner-Teows, Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793528103321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Independent thinking in an uncertain world a mind of one's own / / edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and David Waltner-Toews |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Nature - Effect of human beings on
Human ecology - Social aspects |
ISBN |
0-429-42640-2
0-429-76086-8 0-429-76087-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thinking for oneself : outside the square / Valerie A. Brown -- Collective learning : joining the dots / Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert & John A. Harris -- Multiple dimensions of mind : parts and wholes / Valerie A. Brown -- Celebrating difference : on not losing one's mind / David Waltner-Toews & Ellen Wall -- Multiple minds : the more we are together / John A. Harris -- Multiple voices : so say all of us / Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris -- Post-normal reconciliation : reframing the agenda / Kerry A. Arabena -- Sophia in the anthropocene : towards an environmental ethic / Dianne E. Dibley -- The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind / Charles J. Massy -- Escaping the "circular conundrum" : cropping and learning in Northern Australia / Kathryn E. Andrews -- Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world / David Waltner-Toews -- Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia / Richard M. Thackway & Mark W. Gardner -- Transcoherence : labels and wicked problems / Craig A. Ashurst -- Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation / Julia H. Wolfson -- Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research / Elizabeth A Clarke, Rebecca Freeth, and Dena Fam -- Life and change for a regenerative farmer / David S. Marsh -- That's how the light gets in / David Waltner-Toews -- Knowing our own minds / David Waltner-Teows, Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799924103321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Independent thinking in an uncertain world a mind of one's own / / edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris and David Waltner-Toews |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Nature - Effect of human beings on
Human ecology - Social aspects |
ISBN |
0-429-42640-2
0-429-76086-8 0-429-76087-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thinking for oneself : outside the square / Valerie A. Brown -- Collective learning : joining the dots / Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert & John A. Harris -- Multiple dimensions of mind : parts and wholes / Valerie A. Brown -- Celebrating difference : on not losing one's mind / David Waltner-Toews & Ellen Wall -- Multiple minds : the more we are together / John A. Harris -- Multiple voices : so say all of us / Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris -- Post-normal reconciliation : reframing the agenda / Kerry A. Arabena -- Sophia in the anthropocene : towards an environmental ethic / Dianne E. Dibley -- The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind / Charles J. Massy -- Escaping the "circular conundrum" : cropping and learning in Northern Australia / Kathryn E. Andrews -- Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world / David Waltner-Toews -- Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia / Richard M. Thackway & Mark W. Gardner -- Transcoherence : labels and wicked problems / Craig A. Ashurst -- Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation / Julia H. Wolfson -- Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research / Elizabeth A Clarke, Rebecca Freeth, and Dena Fam -- Life and change for a regenerative farmer / David S. Marsh -- That's how the light gets in / David Waltner-Toews -- Knowing our own minds / David Waltner-Teows, Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807903403321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Morel tales : the culture of mushrooming |
Autore | Fine Gary Alan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Harvard University Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FineGary A |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - Social aspects
Edible mushrooms Nature Anthropogeography & Human Ecology Anthropology Social Sciences |
ISBN | 0-674-03685-9 |
Classificazione | MS 1700 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Being in Nature -- CHAPTER TWO Meaningful Mushrooms -- CHAPTER THREE Sharing the Woods -- CHAPTER FOUR Talking Wild -- CHAPTER FIVE Organizing Naturalists -- CHAPTER SIX Fungus and Its Publics -- CHAPTER SEVEN Naturework and the Taming of the Wild -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455181703321 |
Fine Gary Alan | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Harvard University Press, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Morel tales : the culture of mushrooming |
Autore | Fine Gary Alan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Harvard University Press, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FineGary A |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - Social aspects
Edible mushrooms Nature Anthropogeography & Human Ecology Anthropology Social Sciences |
ISBN | 0-674-03685-9 |
Classificazione | MS 1700 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Being in Nature -- CHAPTER TWO Meaningful Mushrooms -- CHAPTER THREE Sharing the Woods -- CHAPTER FOUR Talking Wild -- CHAPTER FIVE Organizing Naturalists -- CHAPTER SIX Fungus and Its Publics -- CHAPTER SEVEN Naturework and the Taming of the Wild -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778448203321 |
Fine Gary Alan | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Harvard University Press, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nature & the environment / / the editors of Salem Press |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 59 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 303.4 |
Collana | Sociology Reference Guide |
Soggetto topico |
Nature - Social aspects
Human ecology - Social aspects |
ISBN | 1-4298-4327-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Environmental issues & society -- The environmental deficit -- Society & the natural environment -- Environmental sustainability -- Sociology of the built environment -- Trends in global population growth -- Public safety : natural disasters -- Animals & human society. |
Altri titoli varianti | Nature and the environment |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136226603321 |
Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New earth politics : essays from the Anthropocene / / Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Collana | Earth system governance |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection - Social aspects
Environmental protection - Political aspects Human ecology - Social aspects Human ecology - Political aspects Environmentalism - Social aspects Environmentalism - Political aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
ENVIRONMENT/General
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General |
ISBN | 0-262-33213-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Living on a New Earth; Section 1 Causes of the New Earth; 1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics; 2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization; Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement; 3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface; 4 Scholarship as Citizenship; Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope; 5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for aNew Earth; 6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View; Section 4 New Earth Institutions
7 Institutional Politics and Reform8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative; Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society; 9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society; 10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force; Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics; 11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace; 12 China on the World Stage*; Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth's Defining Problem; 13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation; 14 Governing Climate Engineering; Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth; 15 Living at the Margins 16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and IllusionsEpilogue Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the "Anthropocene"; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465952303321 |
Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New earth politics : essays from the Anthropocene / / Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Collana | Earth system governance |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection - Social aspects
Environmental protection - Political aspects Human ecology - Social aspects Human ecology - Political aspects Environmentalism - Social aspects Environmentalism - Political aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
ENVIRONMENT/General
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General |
ISBN | 0-262-33213-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Living on a New Earth; Section 1 Causes of the New Earth; 1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics; 2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization; Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement; 3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface; 4 Scholarship as Citizenship; Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope; 5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for aNew Earth; 6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View; Section 4 New Earth Institutions
7 Institutional Politics and Reform8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative; Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society; 9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society; 10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force; Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics; 11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace; 12 China on the World Stage*; Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth's Defining Problem; 13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation; 14 Governing Climate Engineering; Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth; 15 Living at the Margins 16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and IllusionsEpilogue Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the "Anthropocene"; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798271503321 |
Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New earth politics : essays from the Anthropocene / / Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Collana | Earth system governance |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection - Social aspects
Environmental protection - Political aspects Human ecology - Social aspects Human ecology - Political aspects Environmentalism - Social aspects Environmentalism - Political aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
ENVIRONMENT/General
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General |
ISBN | 0-262-33213-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Living on a New Earth; Section 1 Causes of the New Earth; 1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics; 2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization; Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement; 3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface; 4 Scholarship as Citizenship; Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope; 5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for aNew Earth; 6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View; Section 4 New Earth Institutions
7 Institutional Politics and Reform8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative; Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society; 9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society; 10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force; Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics; 11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace; 12 China on the World Stage*; Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth's Defining Problem; 13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation; 14 Governing Climate Engineering; Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth; 15 Living at the Margins 16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and IllusionsEpilogue Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the "Anthropocene"; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808732103321 |
Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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