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The Structural links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental... more...
Umweltpolitische Mündigkeit: Kompetenzorientierte Effekte umweltbildender Maßnahmen
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Umweltpolitische Bildung zielt darauf ab, Schüler zu umweltverantwortlichem Handeln zu motivieren und zu befähigen. Fachkompetenz, Bewusstseinsausprägung, Urteilsfähigkeit und Handlungsorientierung werden in diesem Zusammenhang durch Kommunikations- und Bildungsprozesse entwickelt. Der damit verbundene Lernprozess vollzieht sich... more...
Image Politics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 47.95This exceptional volume examines ?image events? as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures,... more...
Cooler Smarter
Springer 2012; US$ 21.95How can each of us live Cooler Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days-what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work-may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming.Based on an in-depth, two-year study by experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists, Cooler Smarter shows you how to cut your own global... more...
Direct Action in British Environmentalism
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 52.95Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fulllest scholarly analysis available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of politics and environmental studies. more...
Green History
Routledge 1993; US$ 71.95Charting the origins of the modern ecology movement over more than two thousand years, this volume gives a voice to those hidden from history, revealing "green" themes within artistic and scientific thought. more...
Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Since a handful of environmental activists helped to bring down the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the arena of environmental politics has offered a valuable lens on the transition process, providing a unique insight into the contradictory and highly contingent relationship between democratisation and neo-liberalism. Environment and Democracy... more...
The Making of Green Knowledge
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 29.00This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. Focusing on the quest for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it places environmental politics within a broad historical perspective, and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices... more...
Cultures of Environmentalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 30.00As environmental issues increasingly impinge on society, sociologists have turned their attention to nature and the environment. However, unlike the majority of sociological work on environmental issues, which has too often been dominated by abstract theoretical disputes, this book concentrates on empirical studies in environmental sociology. It shows... more...









