This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on...Lasīt vairāk
This book takes a comprehensive look at the environmental costs of wars around the world since the end of World War II, drawing on case studies from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Africa, and other regions....Lasīt vairāk
Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected...Lasīt vairāk
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This book takes a comprehensive look at the environmental costs of wars around the world since the end of World War II, drawing on case studies from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Africa, and other regions....Lasīt vairāk
By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet....Lasīt vairāk
This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maint...Lasīt vairāk
This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maint...Lasīt vairāk
Nandini Gunewardena, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Mark Schuller, Alexander De Waal, Sara E. Alexander, Gregory Button, Bettina Damiani, Antonio Donini, Elizabeth Guillette, Wahneema Lubiano...
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Capitalizing on Catastrophe critically explores the phenomenon of "disaster capitalism," in which relief efforts for natural disasters and other large-scale disruptions are contracted out to private companies....Lasīt vairāk
Nandini Gunewardena, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Mark Schuller, Alexander De Waal, Sara E. Alexander, Gregory Button, Bettina Damiani, Antonio Donini, Elizabeth Guillette, Wahneema Lubiano...
Naomi Kleins May 2005 article Disaster Capitalism has inspired not only her own book by the same title, but also this anthology of essays by American anthropologists and other social scientists on how corporate profiteers rob the most unfortunate wh...Lasīt vairāk
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Pfeffer (development sociology, Cornell U.) and Schelhas (research forestry, USDA Forest Service, Tuskegee U., Alabama) look at the inherently conflicting dynamics between environmental conservation efforts and indigenous land use choices in Central...Lasīt vairāk
Medina (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan) has been studying waste-disposal, recycling, and scavenging for over 10 years, and here analyzes secondary data from studies carried out by a wide range of researchers to overview the role...Lasīt vairāk
Alf Hornborg, J Donald Hughes, J. R. McNeill, Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman...
Anthropologists, historians, and economists are among the contributors who highlight how landscape changes and technological innovations are distributed in space, as an alternative to the usual way of looking at environmental history as a collective...Lasīt vairāk
Alf Hornborg, J Donald Hughes, J. R. McNeill, Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman...
If one applies the world-system perspective pioneered by Immanuel Wallerstein to the study of environmental history, it becomes clear that the unequal power relations between rich core regions and the poor periphery should have their corollaries in t...Lasīt vairāk
Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthro...Lasīt vairāk
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This is an ethnography of the indigenous Sakha people of subarctic Russia and is also written as, in the words of Crate (human ecology, George Mason U.), an ethnography of sustainability by exploring how communities balance adaptation and resilience...Lasīt vairāk
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During the late 1980s, explains Gezon (anthropology, U. of West Georgia), an influx of millions of international dollars allowed the Malagasy government to help protect endangered species by revitalizing the enforcement of rules in protected areas, o...Lasīt vairāk
Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis...Lasīt vairāk
Jacques (political science, U. of Central Florida) connects the processes and practices of neoliberal globalization to the ecological health of the ocean. He then explores the relationship between ecological change in the ocean to regional politics a...Lasīt vairāk
Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric conditions to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body...Lasīt vairāk
