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Sustainability
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 69.95The concept of sustainability is traditionally viewed in exclusively environmental terms. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods links peoples livelihoods and life chances to the concept of sustainability by examining the way in which social and economic processes complement and compound environmental change. Looking at the main ingredients of... more...
Sustainable Development
Routledge 1987; US$ 66.95Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not 'natural', but an historical process linked to economics and politics. more...
Chewing Gum
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95In Chewing Gum , Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic Indians in the jungles of southern Mexico. more...
Refashioning Nature
Routledge 1991; US$ 254.00This book examines the development of the modern food system around contemporary agriculture, food processing, ecological systems and changes in women's employment in challenging our perception of our position within a natural system. more...
Social Theory and the Global Environment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 71.95This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact. The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical... more...
The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00Presents an assessment of the scope and content of environmental sociology, and sets out the intellectual and practical challenges posed by the urgent need for policy and action to address accelerating environmental change. more...
Consuming Space
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in structuring contemporary capitalist political economies. more...
Climate Change and Human Security
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00The challenge presented by climate change is, by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of this book, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North. The difference is that for the people of the Mexican Caribbean evidence of the effects of climate change, including hurricanes, is very familiar to... more...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 148.00Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental... more...
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