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  • Conservation Concepts

    Rethinking Human–Nature Relationships

    de Kurt Jax ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book provides a review of the multitude of conservation concepts, both from a scientific, philosophical, and social science perspective, asking how we want to shape our relationships with nature as humans, and providing guidance on which conservation approaches can help us to do this.Nature conservation is a contested terrain and there is not only one idea about what constitutes conservation ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Ecology Revisited

    Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science

    Edición de Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    As concerns about humankind’s relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline. The text provides readers with an overview of the theoretical, institutional and historical formation of ecological knowledge. The varied ... Leer más

    $197.09 USD

  • Ecosystem Functioning

    de Kurt Jax ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    In the face of decreasing biodiversity and ongoing global changes, maintaining ecosystem functioning is seen both as a means to preserve biological diversity as well as for safeguarding human well-being by securing the services ecosystems provide. The concept today is prominent in many fields of ecology and conservation biology, such as biodiversity research, ecosystem management, or restoration ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • Rethinking Nature

    Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries

    Edición de Aurélie Choné, Isabelle Hajek, Philippe Hamman ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature and as part of or ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    de Hartmut Rosa ...
    Traducido por Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Libro 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Transnationalizing the Public Sphere

    de Nancy Fraser ...
    Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article ... Leer más

    $17.00 USD

  • The Evolution of Knowledge

    Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

    de Jürgen Renn ...
    A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • The Language of Plants

    Science, Philosophy, Literature

    Edición de Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, Patrícia Vieira ...
    The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    de Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sciences from Below

    Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

    de Sandra Harding, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

    de Hub Zwart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ... Leer más

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