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

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Robbins, Paul, 1967-
Published
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Hintz, John and Moore, Sarah A.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: The View from a Human-Made Wilderness -- What Is This Book? -- The Authors' Points of View -- 2.Population and Scarcity -- A Crowded Desert City -- The Problem of "Geometric" 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 -- 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! -- Holism, Scientism, and Other Pitfalls -- Thinking with Ethics -- 6.Risks and Hazards -- Great Floods -- Environments as Hazard -- The Problem of Risk Perception -- Risk as Culture -- Beyond Risk: The Political Economy of Hazards -- Thinking with Hazards and Risk -- 7.Political Economy -- The Strange Logic of "Under-pollution" -- 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 -- Welcome to the Jungle -- So You Say It's "Natural"? -- Environmental Discourse -- The Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, and the Very Material World -- Thinking with Construction -- 9.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 -- 10.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 -- Ethics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing? -- The Tree Puzzle -- 11.Wolves -- The Death of 832F -- A Short History of Wolves -- Ethics: Rewilding and Wolves -- Institutions: Stakeholder Management -- Social Construction: Of Wolves and Masculinity -- The Wolf Puzzle -- 12.Uranium -- Renaissance Derailed? -- A Short History of Uranium -- Risk and Hazards: Debating the Fate of High-Level Radioactive Waste -- Political Economy: Environmental Justice and the Navajo Nation -- The Social Construction of Nature: Discourses of Development and Wilderness in Australia -- The Uranium Puzzle -- 13.Tuna -- Blood 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 -- 14.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 -- 15.Bottled Water -- A Tale of Two Bottles -- A Short History of Bottled Water -- Population: Bottling for Scarcity? -- Risk: Health and Safety in a Bottle? -- Political Economy: Manufacturing Demand on an Enclosed Commons -- The Bottled Water Puzzle -- 16.French Fries -- Getting Your French Fry Fix -- A Short History of the Fry -- Risk Analysis: Eating What We Choose and Choosing What We Eat -- Political Economy: Eat Fries or Else! -- Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage? -- The French Fry Puzzle -- 17.E-Waste -- Digital Divides -- A Short History of E-Waste (2000) -- Risk Management and the Hazard of E-Waste -- E-Waste and Markets: From Externality to Commodity -- E-Waste and Environmental Justice: The Political Economy of E-Waste -- The E-Waste Puzzle.
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9781118451540 (e-book)
9781118451564
Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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