Environmentalist thought and ideology

Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in historyacid rainlawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides.

This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana's Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "e;community-private partnership"e; with affected communities.

This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and ending with Hurricane Katrina and the still-contested Delta landscape.

From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled.

Increasingly, we hear of 'smart' cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an 'intelligent' connection with the 'network society'.

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities.

Participatory Media in Environmental Communication brings together stories of communities in the Pacific islands - a region that is severely affected by the impacts of climate change.

This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death.

We live in an age of ecocide.

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be "e;good,"e; "e;bad,"e; "e;right,"e; "e;wrong,"e; "e;fair,"e; or "e;just"e;?

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university-level landscape curricula.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

Winner of the IPBA Gold Medal for Nonfiction Series (with Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew) and Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Reference/Education.

The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices.

Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of 'energy', a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today.

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history.

This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI).

This introduction to global environmental politics examines why environmental challenges occur and how we can effectively respond to them.

Women and Nature?

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples' lands and bodies.

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "e;common ground"e; - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity.

Dead zones are on the rise.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality-an object's ability to change-in architecture and design.

At the 2019 UN climate change conference, activists and delegates from groups representing Indigenous, youth, women, and labour rights were among those marching through the halls chanting "e;Climate Justice, People Power.

The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Spiritual lessons from insect archetypes of the Medicine Wheel *; Reveals the sacred wisdom inherent in Honeybee's pollinating, Butterfly's transformation, Spider's weaving, and Earthworm's recycling *; Provides experiential practices, such as Shamanic Breathwork journeys, to connect with insect teachers and harness their consciousness-activating patterns *; Shows how Dragonfly, Cicada, and Cricket connect us with the Great Star Nations, the depths of Mother Earth, and the music of life *; Includes access to Cricket Chorus Meditation audio tracks Our insect brothers and sisters are some of the most ancient beings and teachers on planet Earth.

Engaging and thought-provoking, this book examines how humans see and treat other animals and argues that we should extend equal consideration and respect to all beings, human and nonhuman alike.

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights.

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

This book explores the interconnections between world politics and non-human nature to overcome the anthropocentric boundaries that characterize the field of international relations.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.

This edited volume explores the intersections of the human, nonhuman, transhuman, and posthuman from a phenomenological perspective.

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value?

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.

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W.

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Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for consumption.

First published in 1992.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

As environmental issues increasingly impinge on society, sociologists have turned their attention to nature and the environment.

This book discusses the physical and mathematical foundations of modern quantum mechanics and three realistic quantum theories that John Stuart Bell called "e;theories without observers"e; because they do not merely speak about measurements but develop an objective picture of the physical world.

Planet Earth is the most spectacular look at our planet that has ever been broadcast.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking.