Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Environmental City
People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010, two ideas of Austin as a place came into conflict. Many who promoted the ideology of growth believed Austin would be defined by economic output, money, and wealth. But many others thought Austin was instead...
by Jack Buffington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
One billion beverage containers are used on a daily basis in the United States, with at least 600 million of them ending up in landfills. Even the 400 million that are recycled—at a great cost—are not accomplishing the task of helping the environment. This economic and environmental catastrophe...
The Myth of Green Marketing
Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis.
This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and...
Global Spin
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists,...
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...
by Karl Boyd Brooks, Mark W. T. Harvey, Paul Milazzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Decades before the environmental concerns of the 1960s and long before today’s quest for sustainability, Harry S. Truman’s presidency decisively changed the scope and pace of federal government interaction with the natural world. Determined to extend the prosperity promised by Roosevelt’s New...
Greening the College Curriculum
A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature,...
The Media Commons
Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's...
Working on Earth
Class and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental...
Poisoned for Pennies
The Economics of Toxics and Precaution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
“Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. For example, some economists have argued that states should encourage—and even subsidize—cigarette...
by Peter Dauvergne
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions, initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries...
Ecological Systems Integrity
Governance, law and human rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and...
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...