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G o v e r n m e n t 4 4 0 1 : S t a t e o f t h e W o r l d
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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to gain insight into relevant local, regional, and global environmental issues by combining simple math, the metric system, and critical thinking concepts. It presents real-world issues and examples as a means of fostering the development of the math and analytical skills needed to truly think critically and understand these complex issues.
Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text presently available is "development", Hughes maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainability. By adopting the ecological process as their major theme, the authors show how the process of human interaction with the natural environment unfolded in the past and offer perspective on the ecological crises in our world at the beginning of the 21st century. Topics range from broad regional studies that examine important aspects of the global environment that affect nations, to a study of the widespread influence of one important individual on his nation and beyond.
By Rue E. Gordon and
Jamie N. Anderson (Editors); The
Lyons Press; ISBN: 155821920X This annual directory of national and international conservation organizations and agencies is a useful resource whether your interest is coral reefs or cultural preservation, native plants or national parks, sport fishing or sustainable ecosystems.
From forestry to hazardous waste management to environmental education, the authors give detailed information about 11 major fields of work. In each field, they discuss major trends, career niches, salary ranges, appropriate educational background, and mini case studies. Introductory chapters offer advice on the job search. An annotated listing of professional associations and other resources is found at the end of each chapter.
Proposes that all living species are parts of a single organism and that the biological processes of the Earth naturally change environmental conditions to enable survival.
Examines
a variety of issues ranging from common
pool resources to ozone layer politics to scarcity and security.
Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements in emissions and prevent global warming.
A sequel to The Limits of growth, which concluded, that at then-current rates of growth, the limits to physical growth on the planet would he reached in the next 100 years. Now three of the original authors show that things are going even worse, even faster, and outline immediate actions necessary to limit demands on material resources.
Botkin
argues that our ability to solve ecological crises is limited not by our
scientific knowledge, but by the age-old myths and metaphors that shape our
perception of the natural world. He uses case studies to highlight controversial
issues and
reveal how old myths blind us to the new technology
Provides an examination of the deep-seated, belief in a widespread jobs-environment trade-off. Considers the roots and staying power of the misperception regarding job security and environmental regulation.
Garrett
Hardin's seminal essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," has challenged
and compelled. How we manage the commons is critical to appropriating,
allocating, and sustaining the value from common-pool resources. MANAGING THE
COMMONS explores these very questions. Hardin's essay provides the launching
platform for
investigating principles and practices of commons management.
Annual editions, with many tables, figures, and data of global environmental facts provide a comprehensive framework for the debate about humanity’s future.
An extensive source of hard facts on a variety of global trends presented in categories.
A 385-page essay on the state of global environmentalism that is both hopeful and dire. He points to the 1992 Earth Summit Rio de Janeiro as "a doorway opening to ... more humane economics ... and greater concern for the vulnerability of Mother Earth." However, he also warns of the consequences of the economic inequalities of the southern and northern hemispheres and the potential ecological disasters of encouraging poorer countries to pursue the purely market-based path of richer countries.
Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. These vital questions are addressed in a collection of thirty-one essays by a diverse array of today's scientist-writers. The contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in relation to today's environmental issues--and show how humans can help maintain a livable planet.
Vice President Al Gore described in this book how humans are on the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately of humans. The book probes the roots of the environmental crisis and offers a vision of a new, more sustainable path. Human civilization must heal itself, psychologically and spiritually, if we are to heal our ailing environment and save the earth's ecology for future generations.
Many contributors assess the ecological status of the planet--on subjects ranging from global warming and ocean water quality to overpopulation and biodiversity. They explain what we do know, what we don't know, and offer solutions to many problems we do face.
By
Timothy Doyle and Doug McEachern; Rutledge;
ISBN: 041514776X Explains the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and practices of policy-making. With case studies of many nations, the authors present a comparative perspective of environmental politics and the range of policy solutions within difference nations and cultures. Also offers an in-depth look at U.S. national and international politics, and looks at future developments for effective local and international environmental diplomacy.
Prentice
Hall; ISBN: 0131760416 Examines
the linkages between human actions and environmental inputs. A historical
context traces demographic and cultural developments through a series of
demographic landmarks, and provides a balance to the book's survey of recent and
contemporary populations. Chapter topics include ecological concepts;
demographic landmarks of a successful species; technology, development and
population; and health, disease, and diet
Discusses environmental policy making in the United States in seven areas: air pollution, water pollution, energy, toxic and hazardous waste, land management, international environmental problems, and international environmental management. Explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not thus the paradox of environmental policy: we often understand the best solutions to environmental problems, yet they remain unimplemented due to the nature of the policy-making process.
An anthropological study of how Americans view environmental changes, drawing on interviews and surveys of the general public and interest group members. He finds that the public and scientists have completely different understandings of some critical environmental problems and proposed policy solutions, that environmental values have already become intertwined with other American values, and that an environmental view of the world is more universal than previous studies have suggested.
The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. |
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