Environment
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6190-6 (ISBN)
What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? The environment is not only everything we see around us but also, at a lesser scale, a hailstorm of molecules large and small that constantly penetrates our bodies, simultaneously nourishing and threatening our health. The concept of oneness with our surroundings urges a reckoning of what we are doing to ‘the environment,’ and consequently, what we are doing to ourselves.
By taking us through this journey of questioning, Rolf Halden’s Environment empowers readers with new knowledge and a heightened appreciation of how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity’s prospect of survival.
With illustrations by Griffin Finke.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, is Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA.
Preface
1. Environmental Beginnings
2. The Stuff We Are Made Of
3. Life in a Bubble
4. Turning Petroleum into People
5. Running Out of Ink for Human Blueprints
6. Tracing Rachel Carson’s Path
7. Regrettable Substitutions
8. From Tobacco to Teflon Babies
9. Yesterday’s Fuel Becomes Today’s Forgetfulness
10. The High Price of Meat
11. Plastic Hangover
12. Shrapnel in Human Eyes and Bodies
13. Diagnosing Humanity
14. One with the Environment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Object Lessons |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 121 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 172 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-6190-2 / 1501361902 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-6190-6 / 9781501361906 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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