ISBN:
9781136891526
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1136891528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
Introduction to the social sciences
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als HINCHLIFFE, STEVE Natural and the Social : Uncertainty, Risk, Change
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Science Social aspects
;
Human ecology
;
Nature and nurture
;
Risk management
;
Science Social aspects
;
Nature and nurture
;
Human ecology
;
Risk management
;
Science Social aspects
;
Human ecology
;
Nature and nurture
;
Risk management
;
Science ; Social aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
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
Note:
Originally published: 2000. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2015)
,
Originally published: 2000
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