Environment and Society
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-40823-9 (ISBN)
Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition demonstrates how theoretical approaches such as environmental ethics, political economy, and social construction work as conceptual tools to identify and clarify contemporary environmental issues. Assuming no background knowledge in the subject, this reader-friendly textbook uses clear language and engaging examples to first describe nine key conceptual tools, and then apply them to a variety of familiar objects-from bottled water and French fries to trees, wolves, and carbon dioxide. Throughout the text, highly accessible chapters provide insight into the relationship between the environment and present-day society.
Divided into two parts, the text begins by explaining major theoretical approaches for interpreting the environment-society relationship and discussing different perspectives about environmental problems. Part II examines a series of objects, each viewed through a sample of the theoretical tools from Part I, helping readers think critically about critical environmental topics such as deforestation, climate change, the global water supply, and hazardous e-waste. This fully revised third edition stresses a wider range of competing ways of thinking about environmental issues and features additional cases studies, up-to-date conceptual understandings, and new chapters in Part I on racializd environments and feminist approaches.
Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition:
- Covers theoretical lenses such as commodities, environmental ethics, and risks and hazards, and applies them to touchstone environment-society objects like wolves, tuna, trees, and carbon dioxide
- Uses a conversational narrative to explain key historical events, topical issues and policies, and scientific concepts
- Features substantial revisions and updates, including new chapters on feminism and race, and improved maps and illustrations
- Includes a wealth of in-book and online resources, including exercises and boxed discussions, chapter summaries, review questions, references, suggested readings, an online test bank, and internet links
- Provides additional instructor support such as suggested teaching models, full-color PowerPoint slides, and supplementary teaching material
Retaining the innovative approach of its predecessors, Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition remains the ideal textbook for courses in environmental issues, environmental science, and nature and society theory.
Paul Robbins is Professor and Dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests focus on understanding human-environment systems, the influence non-humans have on human behavior and organization, and the implications these interactions hold for ecosystem health, local communities, and social justice. He is also author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, now in its third edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2019).
John G. Hintz is Professor of Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Sciences at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include the politics of public lands management, mapping protected areas, and sustainable agriculture. He has published in several journals, including Capitalism Nature Socialism and Ethics, Place & Environment.
Sarah A. Moore is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her research investigates the political, economic, and social dimensions of waste management at several scales. Her publications include articles in numerous journals including Progress in Human Geography, The Professional Geographer, and Society and Natural Resources.
1 Introduction: The View from a Human-Made Wild
What is This Book?
The Authors' Points of View
Part I Approaches and Perspectives
2 Population and Scarcity
A Booming China or a Busting One?
The Problem of Exponential Growth
Population, Development, and Environment Impact
The Other Side of the Coin: Population and Innovation
Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause?
Thinking with Population
3 Markets and Commodities
The Bet
Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem
Market Failure 39 Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems
Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy
Thinking with Markets
4 Institutions and "The Commons"
Controlling Carbon?
The Prisoner's Dilemma
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Evidence and Logic of Collective Action
Crafting Sustainable Environmental Institutions
Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter?
Thinking with Institutions
5 Environmental Ethics
The Price of Cheap Meat
Improving Nature: From Biblical Tradition to John Locke
Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, California
Aldo Leopold and "The Land Ethic"
Liberation for Animals!
CAFOs and Climate Change: Now That You Know What Should You Do?
Holism and Other Pitfalls
Thinking with Ethics
6 Risks and Technology
The Bt Cotton Revolution
Environments as Hazard
The Problem of Risk Perception
Risk as Culture
Beyond Risk: The Political Economy of Hazards
Thinking with Risk and Technology
7 Political Economy
The Contradictions of COVID-19
Labor, Accumulation, and Crisis
Production of Nature
Global Capitalism and the Ecology of Uneven Development
Social Reproduction and Nature
Environments and Economism
Thinking with Political Economy
8 Social Construction of Nature
Constructing Wilderness in Sweden
So You Say It's "Natural?"
Environmental Discourse
The Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, and the Very Material World
Thinking with Construction
9 Feminism and the Environment
Gender and Environment
From Earth as Woman to Ecofeminism
Feminist Approaches to Economies and Nature
Feminist Approaches to Knowledge and the Environment
Thinking with Feminism and the Environment
10 Racialized Environments
Structural Environmental Racism
Environmental Justice
Settler Colonialism
Whiteness and Nature
Thinking with Racialized Environments
Part II Objects of Concern
11 Carbon Dioxide
Stuck in Pittsburgh Traffic
A Short History of CO2
Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Carbon Cooperation
Markets: Trading More Gases, Buying Less Carbon
Political Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere?
The Carbon Puzzle
12 Trees
Chained to a Tree in Berkeley, California
A Short History of Trees
Population and Markets: The Forest Transition Theory
Political Economy: Accumulation and Deforestation
Gender, Trees, and Power: Feminist Insights into Forests
Ethics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing?
The Tree Puzzle
13 Wolves
Wolves, Be Wary Where You Tread
A Short History of Wolves
Ethics: Rewilding and Wolves
Institutions: Stakeholder Management
Feminism: Of Wolves and Masculinity
The Wolf Puzzle
14 Uranium
Promise and Peril in Post-Nuclear Worlds
A Short History of Uranium
Risk and Hazards: Debating the Fate of High-Level Radioactive Waste
Race: Environmental Justice and the Navajo Nation
Social Construction: Discourses at Work in Australia
The Uranium Puzzle
15 Tuna
Big Trouble for Big Tuna
A Short History of Tuna
Markets and Commodities: Eco-Labels to the Rescue?
Political Economy: Re-regulating Fishery Economies
Ethics: Saving Animals, Conserving Species
The Tuna Puzzle
16 Lawns
How Much Do People Love Lawns?
A Short History of Lawns
Risk and Chemical Decision-Making
Social Construction: Good Lawns Mean Good People
Political Economy: The Chemical Tail Wags the Turfgrass Dog
The Lawn Puzzle
17 Bottled Water
A Tale of Two Bottles
A Short History of Bottled Water
Population: Bottling for Scarcity?
Risk and Technology: Health and Safety in a Bottle?
Political Economy: Manufacturing Demand on an Enclosed Commons
Racialized Environments: The Burden of Bottled Water in the United States
The Bottled Water Puzzle
18 French Fries
Getting Your French Fry Fix
A Short History of the Fry
Feminist Approaches: The Body Politics of French Fries
Political Economy and Racialized Environments: Have it Your Way?
Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage?
The French Fry Puzzle
19 E-Waste
Digital Divides
A Short History of E-Waste
E-Waste and Markets: From Externality to Commodity
The Political Economy of E-Waste
E-Waste and Racialized Environments
The E-Waste Puzzle
Glossary
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.04.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 261 mm |
| Gewicht | 824 g |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-119-40823-7 / 1119408237 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-40823-9 / 9781119408239 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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