Environment and Society
Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
2nd Edition
Published on 27. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-13-016555-8 (ISBN)
Description
Appropriate for upper-division undergraduates in various departments such as Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science and Human Geography. With appropriate supplements, the text could also be used by beginning graduate students.
This integrative text about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. While the viewpoint is primarily sociological, coverage is specifically designed to relate to a diverse audience and encompass viewpoints from a variety of natural and social science approaches.
This integrative text about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. While the viewpoint is primarily sociological, coverage is specifically designed to relate to a diverse audience and encompass viewpoints from a variety of natural and social science approaches.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-016555-8 (9780130165558)
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Content
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Environmental Problems and Ecosystems.
2. Human Systems, Environment, and Social Science.
II. READING THE EARTH'S VITAL SIGNS.
3. The Resources of the Earth: Sources and Sinks.
4. Global Climate Change, Scientific Uncertainty, and Risk.
III. THE HUMAN CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.
5. Population, Environment, and Food.
6. Energy and Society.
7. Alternative Futures: Sustainability, Inequality, and Social Change.
IV. TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE WORLD?
8. Transforming Structures: Markets, Politics, and Policy.
9. Environmentalism: Ideology, Action, and Movements.
10. Globalization: Trade, Environment, and the Third Revolution.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
1. Environmental Problems and Ecosystems.
2. Human Systems, Environment, and Social Science.
II. READING THE EARTH'S VITAL SIGNS.
3. The Resources of the Earth: Sources and Sinks.
4. Global Climate Change, Scientific Uncertainty, and Risk.
III. THE HUMAN CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.
5. Population, Environment, and Food.
6. Energy and Society.
7. Alternative Futures: Sustainability, Inequality, and Social Change.
IV. TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE WORLD?
8. Transforming Structures: Markets, Politics, and Policy.
9. Environmentalism: Ideology, Action, and Movements.
10. Globalization: Trade, Environment, and the Third Revolution.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.