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Social impact of environmental issues

Hardback. The project examines how three prominent philosophers of education - William Torrey Harris, John Dewey, and Gregory Bateson - each developed a world view that provides a philosophical basis for environmental education. Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Num Pages: 109 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JPHV; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137484208
ISBN
9781137484208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.65

Paperback. Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. He explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together, using examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates. Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814707111
ISBN
9780814707111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it. 264 pages, illustrations. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight: 370.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271234
ISBN
9780520271234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JHB; RGB; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176307
ISBN
9780691176307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 halftones. 31 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; RNF; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 260 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691164342
ISBN
9780691164342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Hardback. Implies that societies are socio-spatial entities which come into being and acquire their collective self-consciousness and self-identity through a process of spatial dialectics. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; RGC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1090.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792318866
ISBN
9780792318866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.99

Hardback. Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Barriers to global sustainability are identified and conditions for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use are described. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; RNC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300606
ISBN
9780230300606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.11
€ 15.90

Hardback. This optimistic and accessible book contributes to our understanding of the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes by assessing the extent of, and reasons for, environmental justice/injustice in seven diverse countries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447305941
ISBN
9781447305941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.87

Paperback. An analysis of why people with knowledge about climate change often fail to translate that knowledge into action. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
MIT Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262515856
ISBN
9780262515856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.56

Paperback. Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them. Series: Anima. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362326
ISBN
9780822362326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.75

Hardback. Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them. Series: Anima. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362104
ISBN
9780822362104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: RNT; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140146868
ISBN
9780140146868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardback. Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Series: Interspecies Encounters. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNN; JHB; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334207
ISBN
9781785334207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.54

Paperback. In 2011, despite continued developments in forecasting, tracking, and warning technology, the United States was hit by the deadliest tornado season in decades. This title examines the factors that contributed to the outcomes of such tornadoes as the mid-April outbreak that devastated communities in North Carolina. Num Pages: 102 pages, 10 tables, 10 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; RBP; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
American Meteorological Society United States
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
SKU
V9781878220257
ISBN
9781878220257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.27

Hardback. In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis. Editor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten; Hastrup, Frida. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782389460
ISBN
9781782389460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.27

Hardback. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Editor(s): Freese, Lee. Series: Advances in Human Ecology S. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFS; RNC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608. Series: Advances in Human Ecology S. 300 pages. Editor(s): Freese, Lee. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. This book features theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFS; RNC; RNT. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 23. Weight: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762305674
ISBN
9780762305674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.16

Paperback. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP; RNT; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745654010
ISBN
9780745654010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.45

Paperback. An ethnographic account of the rapid mobilization of Chinese peasants into large cities, this text traces the profound transformations of space, power relations and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742061
ISBN
9780804742061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Concerns about environmental risks have focused the minds of a generation. New movements are emerging to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume represents the cutting edge of international research on global environmental movements and contributes to the on-going debates which may shape our future. Editor(s): Leonard, Liam; Kedzior, Sya B. Series: Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: RNB; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783506972
ISBN
9781783506972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.48

Hardcover. Intends to locate justice in a workable and sustainable way within the community, introducing 'Sustainable Justice' as a key concept. This title examines three key concepts which need to be understood for the management of flexible and fluid society, namely Sustainability, Justice and Community. Editor(s): Leonard, Liam; Kenny, Paula. Series Editor(s): Leonard, Liam. Series: Advances in Ecopolitics. Num Pages: 168 pages, ill. BIC Classification: RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857243010
ISBN
9780857243010
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.57

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