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  • - Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
     
    767,-

    Analyzes and advocates for community-based natural resource management. This book offers an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. It is of interest to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, and cultural geography.

  • - An Integrated Perspective
     
    513,-

    Reveals the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. This book examines the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy.

  • - Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
    av Alf Hornborg
    558,-

    Argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes.

  • - A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
    av Lisa L. Gezon
    491,-

  • - The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
    av Robert Rattle
    1 631,-

    Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. While globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain.

  • - The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World
    av Jurgen Brauer
    526,-

    This book takes a comprehensive look at the environmental costs of wars around the world since the end of World War II, drawing on case studies from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Africa, and other regions.

  • av Peter Jacques
    491,-

    Offers an analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric conditions to global political phenomena. This book shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans.

  • - The Globalization and the Environment Reader
     
    1 631,-

    This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

  • av Hans A. Baer
    1 742,-

    This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and commitment to ongoing economic expansion.

  • - Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
    av Martin Medina
    593 - 1 534,-

    A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food.

  • - Environmental Conservation in Central America
    av John Schelhas & Max J. Pfeffer
    755,-

    By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet.

  • - An Integrated Perspective
     
    1 274,-

    Reveals the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. This book examines the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy.

  • - Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
     
    1 553,-

    A group of distinguished environmentalists offer an in-depth analysis of and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. They review the emergence of this transnational movement and how it has forged links between environmental management and social justice agendas.

  • - An Ethnography of Sustainability
    av Susan Alexandra Crate
    589,-

    Presenting a cultural ecological study of a Siberian people, the Viliui Sakha, this title describes the local and global forces of modernization that challenge their survival. It is suitable for environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development in Eurasia, and post-Soviet Russia.

  • - The Globalization and the Environment Reader
     
    700,-

    This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

  • - World-System History and Global Environmental Change
     
    1 649,-

    Providing an overview of the ecological dimension of economic processes, this book presents a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems. It also contains reflections by Immanuel Wallerstein, originator of the world-system concept, in which he talks about the various implications of global environmental change.

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