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  • - Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
     
    97,00 €

    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
     
    67,00 €

    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
    von Alf Hornborg
    71,00 €

    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
    von Lisa L. Gezon
    63,00 €

  • - The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
    von Robert Rattle
    187,00 €

    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
    von Jurgen Brauer
    68,00 €

    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.

  • von Peter Jacques
    63,00 €

    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
     
    186,00 €

    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?

  • von Hans A. Baer
    199,00 €

    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
    von Martin Medina
    77,00 - 176,00 €

    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
    von John Schelhas & Max J. Pfeffer
    92,00 €

    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 Ethnography of Sustainability
    von Susan Alexandra Crate
    74,00 €

    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
     
    85,00 €

    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?

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