Environment and society : a critical introduction / Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- 1. Introduction : the view from a human-made wilderness -- part 1. Approaches and perspectives -- 2. Population and scarcity -- A crowded desert city -- The problem of "geometric growth" -- Population, development, and environment impact -- Population and innovation -- Thinking wit population -- 3. Markets and commodities -- The bet -- Managing environmental bads : the Coase Theorem -- Market failure -- Market-based solutions to environmental problems -- Beyond market failure : gaps between nature and economy -- Thinking with markets -- 4. Institutions and the "The Commons" -- Controlling carbon? -- The prisoner's dilemma -- The tragedy of the commons -- The evidence and logic of collective action -- Crafting sustainable environmental institutions -- Are all commoners equal? Does scale matter? -- Thinking with institutions -- 5. Environmental ethics -- Price of cheap meat -- Improving nature : from biblical tradition to John Locke -- Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, California -- Aldo Leopold and "the land ethic" -- Liberation for animals! -- Holism, scientism, and other pitfalls -- Thinking with ethics -- 6. Risks and hazards -- Great floods -- Environments as hazard -- The problem of risk perception -- Risk as culture -- Beyond risk : the political economy of hazards -- Thinking with hazards and risk -- 7. Political economy -- The strange logic of "under-pollution" -- Labor, accumulation, and crisis -- Production of nature -- Global capitalism and the ecology of uneven development -- Social reproduction and nature -- Environments and economism -- Thinking with political economy -- 8. Social construction of nature -- Welcome to the jungle -- So you say it's "natural" -- Environmental discourse -- The limits of constructivism : science, relativism, and the very material world -- Thinking with construction. part 2. Objects of concern -- 9. Carbon dioxide -- Stuck in Pittsburgh traffic -- Short history of CO2 -- Institutions : climate free-riders and carbon cooperation -- Markets : trading more gases, buying less carbon -- Political economy : who killed the atmosphere? -- The carbon puzzle -- 10. Trees -- Chained to a tree in Berkeley, California -- A short history of trees -- Population and markets : the forest transition theory -- Political economy : accumulation and deforestation -- Ethics, justice, and equity : should trees have standing? -- The tree puzzle -- 11. Wolves -- The death of 832F -- A short history of wolves -- Ethics : rewilding and wolves -- Institutions : stakeholder management -- Social construction : of wolves and masculinity -- The wolf puzzle -- 12. Uranium -- Renaissance derailed? -- A short history of uranium -- Risks and hazards : debating the fate of high-level radioactive waste -- Political economy : environmental justice and the Navajo Nation -- The social construction of nature : discourses of development and wilderness in Australia -- The uranium puzzle -- 13. Tuna -- Blood tuna -- A short history of tuna -- Markets and commodities : eco-labels to the rescue? -- Political economy : re-regulating fishery economies -- Ethics : saving animals, conserving species -- The tuna puzzle -- 14. Lawns -- How much do people love lawns? -- A short history of lawns -- Risk and chemical decision-making -- Social construction : good lawns mean good people -- Political economy : the chemical tail wags the turfgrass dog -- The lawn puzzle -- 15. Bottled water -- A tale of two bottles -- A short history of bottled water -- Population : bottling for scarcity? -- Risk : health and safety in a bottle? -- Political economy : manufacturing demand on an enclosed commons -- The bottled water puzzle -- 16. French fries -- Getting your french fry fix -- Risk analysis : eating what we choose and choosing what we eat -- Political economy : eat fries or else! -- Ethics : protecting or engineering potato heritage? -- The french fry puzzle -- 17. E-waste -- Digital divides -- A short history of E-waste (2000) -- Risk management and the hazard of E-waste -- E-waste and markets : from externality to commodity -- E-waste and environmental justice : the political economy of E-waste -- The E-waste puzzle.