Environment and Society (eBook)

A Critical Introduction

John G. Hintz, Sarah A. Moore, Paul Robbins (Autoren)

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2013 | 2. Auflage
352 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-45154-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on environmental solutions Discusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to objects like bottled water, tuna, and trees Accessible for students, and accompanied by in-book and online resources including exercises and boxed discussions, an online test bank, notes, suggested reading, and website links for enhanced understanding Offers additional online support for instructors, including suggested teaching models, PowerPoint slides for each chapter with full-color graphics, and supplementary images and teaching material

Autor

Paul Robbins is Professor and Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include 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 the author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition, Wiley Blackwell, 2012) and Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are (2007). John Hintz is Associate Professor of Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences at the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on land-use conflicts, environmental policy, and the US environmental movement. He has published in a number of journals, including Capitalism Nature Socialism and Ethics, Place & Environment. Sarah A. Moore is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on urban development politics, urban environmental issues, and environmental justice inthe United States and Latin America. Her publications include articles in numerous journals including Progress in Human Geography, The Professional Geographer, and Society and Natural Resources.

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"Robbins, Hintz and Moore have taken something excellent
and made it even better. It remains as comprehensive yet
accessible as the first, and by adding new material about
human-nature relations, the authors ensure that edition two
reflects important recent developments in thinking and
practice."

--Noel Castree, University of Manchester

"This masterful synthesis of environment-society
scholarship brings together cutting-edge ways of thinking about
nature/society entanglements with highly grounded objects of
exploration--from lawns to bottled water to uranium. The dynamic
and accessible writing style belies the book's empirical and
theoretical sophistication. For upper-level undergrads and
lower-level graduate students of environment-society relations,
this new edition remains the "go-to" text in the
field."

--Kendra McSweeny, Ohio State University
Columbus

"As an introductory text reflecting contemporary scholarship via
plural perspectives and hybrid objects, Environment and Society
continues to innovate."

--Jim Proctor, Lewis & Clark College

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Environmental Geography • Environmental Science • Environmental Sociology • Environmental Studies • Geographie • Geography • Sociology • Soziologie • Umweltforschung • Umweltgeographie • Umweltsoziologie • Umweltwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-45154-6 / 1118451546
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-45154-0 / 9781118451540