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Wolf reintroduction would also spur a local growth-industry in conservation biology research. By arguing for wolf reintroduction, scientists are arguing for personal and somewhat exclusive access to the land (now constructed as the ...
Gifford Pinchot is an iconic figure in the history of environmental conservation. After graduating with a bachelor's degree from Yale, Pinchot received postgraduate training in scientific forestry in France (there was, at the time, ...
In the 1980s, studies of the earth's soils suggested that we could adequately feed the world's population, because there was ample good land that could be used for food production (Crosson and Rosenberg, 1990).
Accessible and insightful, this book provides an essential foundation for shaping our understanding of one of the most important issues of our times.
The book is richly illustrated using both theoretical and empirical data and provides an excellent companion to all researchers interested in sustainable lifestyles.
Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the environment in society, such as: social mobilization on behalf of environmental objectives; the relationships ...
The book is richly illustrated using both theoretical and empirical data and provides an excellent companion to all researchers interested in sustainable lifestyles.
Environment and Society provides a comprehensive and critical account of the ways in which we can think about the relationship between human societies and the environments with which they interact.
This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to what extent has humanity transformed it?
This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles.
First published in 1994 and now reprinted with a new foreword updating the situation from the original edition Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict explores environmental problems - coherently and...
This text looks at the connections between human societies, ecosystems and the geophysical environment. While the perspective is mostly sociological, coverage is specifically designed to be relevant to a wide...
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 ...
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 ...
Its viewpoint is primarily sociological and it is designed for courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Issues, or taught in departments of Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Human Geography ...