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Introduction to Modern Climate Changeby Andrew Dessler
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 40.00This introductory textbook on the problem of modern climate change science, economics, and policy enables informed debate of public policy. more...
Landscape of Britainby Michael Reed
Routledge 1997; US$ 49.95Explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, and shows how each generation makes its own individual contribution without being able entirely to erase those of its predecessors, however remote or distant in time. more...
State of the Earthby Joni Seager
Routledge 1990; US$ 35.95Concise, up-to-the minute, and packed with provocative facts on a broad range of topics - from air quality and acid rain to toxic waste and tourism - The State of the Earth is a comprehensive and engaging source of reference. more...
Nature and Societyby Philippe Descola; Gisli Palsson
Routledge 1996; US$ 47.95The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism. more...
Environment, Power, and Injusticeby Nancy J. Jacobs; Donald Worster; Alfred W. Crosby
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks. more...
People and Natureby Emilio F. Moran
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 104.95This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining the evolving relations between human communities and nature. Written by a noted anthropologist, geographer, and environmental scientist. Reviews the evolution of human interactions with the natural world---drawing from anthropology and geography. Explores those aspects of human ecological relations that seem to account for the greater connectedness of certain societies to their physical environment. Offers a vision for improved relations between humans and nature. more...
Radical Simplicityby Jim Merkel
New Society Publishers 2003; US$ 17.95A revolutionary guide to living up to your own personal, and measurable, sustainability goal more...
Cultures of Contamination, Volume 14by Michael Edelstein; Maria Tysiachniouk; Lyudmila V. Smirnova
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 99.95This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed. Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a better understanding of the constraining conditions and will help guide us in meeting the twin challenges created by the legacy of contamination: how to stop it and how to address what we already have done. more...
Geographies of Consumptionby J Mansvelt
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 60.00A critical introduction to consumption and its geographies, this book provides an engaging summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life. Geographies of Consumption provides: a detailed explanation of political-economic and socio-cultural perspectives on consumption at different scales; overview chapters on the history and conceptualisation of consumption; and thematic chapters on consumption spaces; the body and identity; commodity chains; and globalization and commercial cultures. more...
Mappae Mundiby Johan Goudsblom; Bert de Vries
Amsterdam University Press 2002; US$ 45.00Never before in human society has the interaction of people and their natural environment been so complex. It is precisely this diversity that creates a need for a synthesis that transcends the boundaries of traditional academic fields. "Mappae Mundi more...









