Environmentalist thought and ideology

Boldly reconfigures Walden for contemporary ethics and politics by recovering Thoreau''s theological vision of environmental justice.

This book has two interlocking ambitions.

In Praise of Natural Philosophy argues for a transformation of both science and philosophy, so that these two distinct domains of thought become one: natural philosophy.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Die Klimakrise ist da, auch schon in Deutschland zu spüren, und endlich kommt Bewegung in die satte und träge Gesellschaft.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides.

In the very near future energy-efficient building will be the rule rather than the exception.

This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives.

First published in 1990.

The Nation Looks at its Resources records the key points of the Mid-Century Conference on Resources for the Future held in Washington in 1953.

This poetical study of water ranges from classical myth and literature to modern physics and microbiology.

In preparation for the United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have been considered at the conference.

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V.

In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically.

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive 50-year academic career.

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives.

Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle.

In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict.

This book explores interpretations of alienation from nature in relation to a broad range of environmental issues.

The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

Traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe during the Cold War.

Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving.

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.

Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s.

Coffee to go, Kaffee aus der Kapsel, mit dem Auto in die Stadt, im Sommer nach Neuseeland und im Herbst ein Kurztrip nach Barcelona - das alles werden wir machen, weil wir es können und dürfen.

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

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment.

Although Foucault's work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some 'mobilities' scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic.

This book presents a history of radioecology, from World War II through to the critical years of the Cold War, finishing with a discussion of recent developments and future implications for the field.

In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents).

Water is the foundation of life - for human beings, for animals, for nature in general.

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology.

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

The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples?

The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality.

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production.

A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.

First published in 1992.