Environment and Society A Critical Introduction.

Environment and Society A Critical Introduction.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Environmental protection > Social aspects.
Environmental sciences > Social aspects.
Human ecology > Social aspects.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: Introduction: The View from a Human-Made Wilderness
  • What Is This Book?
  • The Authors' Points of View
  • Part 1: Approaches and Perspectives
  • 2: Population and Scarcity
  • A Crowded Desert City
  • The Problem of "Geometric" Growth
  • Actual population growth
  • Population, Development, and Environment Impact
  • Carrying capacity and the ecological footprint
  • The Other Side of the Coin: Population and Innovation
  • Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause?
  • Development and demographic transition
  • Women's rights, education, autonomy, and fertility behavior
  • The potential violence and injustice of population-centered thinking
  • Thinking with Population
  • Questions for Review
  • Exercise 2.1 What Is Your Ecological Footprint?
  • Exercise 2.2 Where are Fertility Rates High? Why?
  • Exercise 2.3 Too Few People?
  • 3: Markets and Commodities
  • The Bet
  • Sustaining environmental goods: The market response model
  • Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem
  • Market Failure
  • Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems
  • Green taxes
  • Trading and banking environmental "bads"
  • Green consumption
  • Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy
  • Non-market values
  • Money and nature
  • The crisis of equity: Turning economic injustice into environmental injustice?
  • Thinking with Markets
  • Questions for Review
  • Exercise 3.1 The Price of Green Consumption
  • Exercise 3.2 Marketing Green Technology
  • Exercise 3.3 Thinking Economically
  • 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
  • Ingenious flowing commons: Irrigation
  • Wildlife commons: Collective management through hunting
  • The biggest commons: Global climate
  • Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter?
  • Thinking with Institutions
  • Questions for Review
  • Exercise 4.1 Enclosure and Technology
  • Exercise 4.2 Are Commons Overexploited Everywhere?
  • Exercise 4.3 Institutions Nearby
  • 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!
  • From shallow to deep ecology
  • Holism, Scientism, and Other Pitfalls
  • Thinking with Ethics
  • Questions for Review
  • Exercise 5.1 Pass the Bacon (or don't)
  • Exercise 5.2 Animals in Medical and Commercial Research and Testing
  • Exercise 5.3 The Land Ethic
  • 6: Risks and Hazards
  • Great Floods
  • Environments as Hazard
  • Decisions as risk
  • Environmental conditions as uncertain
  • The Problem of Risk Perception
  • Making informed decisions: Risk communication

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