Environment and Society : : A Reader /

Environment and Society : : A Reader / / ed. by Christopher Schlottmann, Dale Jamieson, Colin Jerolmack, Anne Rademacher.

Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Abbey, Edward,
Adler, Jonathan H.,
Allenby, Brad,
Baviskar, Amita,
Bell, Michael M.,
Berry, Wendell,
Borlaug, Norman,
Braungart, Michael,
Bullard, Robert D.,
Burger, Joanna,
Buttel, Frederick H.,
Carson, Rachel,
Chertow, Marian R.,
Crutzen, Paul J.,
Daily, Gretchen C.,
Ehrlich, Paul R.,
Field, Christopher B.,
Francis, Pope,
Goodin, Robert E.,
Gottlieb, Robert,
Guha, Ramachandra,
Hardin, Garrett,
Holland, Alan,
Hourdequin, Marion,
Keith, David W.,
Kolankiewicz, Leon,
Leopold, Aldo,
Malthus, Thomas,
Maniates, Michael,
McDonough, William,
McKibben, Bill,
McNeill, John R.,
Merchant, Carolyn,
Muir, John,
Nordhaus, Ted,
Norgaard, Richard B.,
Ostrom, Elinor,
Owen, David,
Passmore, John,
Petrzelka, Peggy,
Policansky, David,
Schlosberg, David,
Shellenberger, Michael,
Snyder, Gary,
Steffen, Will,
Taylor, Peter J.,
Thoreau, Henry David,
Van Vugt, Mark,
Weisman, Alan,
TeilnehmendeR:
Damon, Maria.
HerausgeberIn:
Jamieson, Dale,
Jerolmack, Colin,
Rademacher, Anne,
Schlottmann, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 9 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Ideas of Nature
  • 1. Excerpts from The End of Nature
  • 2. The Anthropocene
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 24. Excerpts from “Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco”
  • 25. Averting the Tragedy of the Commons
  • 26. Excerpts from “Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations”
  • 27. Excerpts from “About Free- Market Environmentalism”
  • Reading Questions and Further Readings
  • Part V. Values and Justice
  • 28. Excerpts from “Walking”
  • 29. Excerpts from “Naturalness as a Source of Value”
  • 30. Excerpts from “Conservation”
  • 31. Sustainability
  • 32. Excerpts from “Theorising Environmental Justice: The Expanding Sphere of a Discourse”
  • Reading Questions and Further Readings
  • Part VI. Environmental Controversies
  • City and Country
  • 33. Excerpts from “More like Manhattan”
  • 34. Excerpts from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom”
  • Reading Questions and Further Readings
  • Agrarian and Industrial Agriculture
  • 35. Excerpts from “The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead”
  • 36. The Agrarian Standard
  • Reading Questions and Further Readings
  • Managing Nature versus Stewardship
  • 37. Excerpts from “Earth Systems Engineering and Management”
  • 38. The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact
  • Reading Questions and Further Readings
  • Index
  • About the Editors

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