Environment and society : a critical introduction / Paul Robbins, John G. Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore.

"This book is designed to explain these varied interpretive tools and perspectives and show them in operation. Our strategy is first to present the dominant modes of thinking about environment-society relations and then to apply them to a few familiar objects of the world around us. By environm...

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Main Authors: Robbins, Paul, 1967- (Author), Hintz, John (Author), Moore, Sarah A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Critical introductions to geography.
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