ISBN:
9780415329699
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (174 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Understanding Social Change
Series Statement:
Understanding Social Change Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Natural and the Social : Uncertainty, Risk, Change
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Human ecology
;
Nature and nurture
;
Risk management
;
Science ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at genes, environments and human development, medical practices and health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout students are en
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 What is human nature?; CHAPTER 2 Whose health is it anyway?; CHAPTER 3 Nature for sale; CHAPTER 4 Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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