TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robbins,Paul
AU  - Hintz,John
AU  - Moore,Sarah A.
TI  - Environment and society: a critical introduction 
T2  - Critical introductions to geography
SN  - 9781118451564
AV  - GE105 .R63 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley Blackwell
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Human ecology
N1  - 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
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