1. Edition - February 2010
32.90 Euro
2010. 312 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-8760-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8760-2 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
This book presents readers with a concise overview of the diverse conceptual tools and traditions available for thinking about, explaining and addressing the environmental challenges we face today. The authors vividly demonstrate how theory can illuminate pressing environmental problems in the world around us by applying the most recent theoretical concepts to a variety of real-world objects - from French fries and wolves to bottled water and carbon dioxide. At the same time, they stress the ways different, and often conflicting, conclusions about environmental issues can be reached, depending on varying perspectives, starting positions, and assumptions.

From the contents
1. Introduction: The View from Clifton Bridge

Part I

2. Population & Scarcity

3. Markets & Commodities

4. Institutions and "The Commons"

5. Environmental Ethics

6. Risks & Hazards

7. Political Economy

8. Social Construction of Nature

Part II: Objects of Concern

9. Carbon Dioxide

10. Trees

11. Wolves

12. Tuna

13. Bottled Water

14. French Fries