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  • Doing Political Ecology

    Edited by Gregory L. Simon, Kelly Kay ...
    Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry. Doing Political Ecology offers a distinctive entry point into this ever-growing field and argues that our scholarly “foundations,” today more than ever, comprise a cross-cutting latticework of research approaches and concepts.This volume brings together 28 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Flame and Fortune in the American West

    Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire

    by Gregory L. Simon ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
    Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Water Ethics

    Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

    Edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Peter G. Brown, Dr. ...
    Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Environmental Crisis

    Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice

    by Bunyan Bryant ...
    Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Speaking for Ourselves

    Environmental Justice in Canada

    Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley ...
    The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.Speaking for Ourselves draws ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Keywords for Environmental Studies

    Edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, David Pellow ...
    Series Book 3 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature StudiesUnderstandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology

    Edited by Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. Located at the intersection of geography, anthropology, sociology, and environmental history, political ecology is one of the most vibrant and conceptually diverse fields of inquiry into nature-society relations within the social sciences. The ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Environmental Anthropology Today

    Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis ...
    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Green Criminology

    An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm

    by Rob White, Diane Heckenberg ...
    Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and ‘crimes against nature’ has become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of theory and concepts and providing extensive geographical coverage, diversity and depth to the many ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    From Theory to Practice

    by Professor Marion Hourdequin ...
    What is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature?Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and balanced introduction to environmental ethics. It first examines ethical theory, then ties theory to practice, showing how values guide environmental ... Read more

    $26.99 USD