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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781479844746
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (401 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Environmentalism ; Electronic books ; Human ecology ; Environmental policy ; Globalization ; Environmental aspects ; Environmental responsibility
    Abstract: Cover -- ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. IDEAS OF NATURE -- 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature -- 2. The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? -- 3. Excerpts from The World without Us -- 4. Excerpts from "Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative" -- 5. Excerpts from Laudato Si -- 6. Excerpts from "The Etiquette of Freedom" -- 7. Excerpts from "The Land Ethic" -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- PART II. ENVIRONMENTALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS -- 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley -- 9. Excerpts from Silent Spring -- 10. Excerpts from "Environmentalism and Social Justice" -- 11. Excerpts from "Where We Live, Work, and Play" -- 12. Excerpts from "The Death of Environmentalism" -- 13. The Paradox of Global Environmentalism -- 14. Excerpts from "Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi" -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- PART III. POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION -- 15. Excerpts from "An Essay on the Principle of Population" -- 16. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse -- 17. Excerpts from "The IPAT Equation and Its Variants" -- 18. Excerpts from "Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity" -- 19. The NEXT Industrial Revolution -- 20. Excerpts from "In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement" -- 21. Excerpts from "Overpopulation versus Biodiversity" -- Reading Questions and Further Readings -- PART IV. PUBLIC GOODS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION -- 22. Excerpts from "The Tragedy of the Commons" -- 23. Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781479801930 , 9781479894918
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 386 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Environmentalism ; Environmental responsibility ; Human ecology ; Environmental policy ; Globalization Environmental aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltschutz ; Ökologische Bewegung ; Umweltpolitik ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: Excerpts from the end of nature / Bill McKibben -- The anthropocene : are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature? / Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill -- Excerpts from the world without us / Alan Weisman -- Reinventing eden : western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- Excerpts from Laudato si / Pope Francis -- Excerpts from "The etiquette of freedom" / Gary Snyder -- Excerpt from "The land ethic" / Aldo Leopold -- Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir -- Excerpts from Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- Environmentalism and social justice / Robert Bullard -- Where we live, work and play / Robert Gottlieb -- Excerpts from "the death of environmentalism" / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger -- The paradox of global environmentalism / Ramachandra Guha -- Between violence and desire : space, power, and identity in the making of -- Metropolitan delhi / Amita Baviskar -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- How do we know we have global environmental problems? : science and the globalization of environmental discourse / Peter J. Taylor and Frederick H. Buttel -- The ipat equation and its variants / Marian R. Chertow -- Socioeconomic equity, sustainability, and earth's carrying capacity / Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich -- The next industrial revolution / William McDonough and Michael Braungart -- Excerpt from "in search of consumptive resistance : the voluntary simplicity movement" / Michael Maniates -- Overpopulation versus biodiversity / Leon Kolankiewicz -- Tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Revisiting the commons : local lessons, global challenges / Elinor Ostrom, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field, Richard B. Norgaard, and David -- Policansky -- Rationality and solidarities : the social organization of common property resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco / Peggy Petrzelka and Michael Bell -- Averting the tragedy of the commons / Mark Van Vugt -- Climate, collective action and individual ethical obligations / Marion Hourdequin -- About free-market environmentalism / Jonathan Adler -- Excerpt from "walking" / Henry David Thoreau -- Naturalness as a source of value / Robert E. Goodin -- Conservation / John Passmore -- Sustainability / Alan Holland -- Theorising environmental justice : the expanding sphere of a discourse / David Schlosberg -- More like manhattan / David Owen -- Freedom and wilderness, wilderness and freedom / Edward Abbey -- The green revolution revisited and the road ahead / Norman Borlaug -- The agrarian standard / Wendell Berry -- Earth systems engineering and management / Brad Allenby -- The earth is not yet an artifact / David Keith
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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