Cows, Kin, and Globalization

Susan Alexandra Crate

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization tha... Lees meer

Globalization and the World Ocean

Peter Jacques

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human su... Lees meer

Saving Forests, Protecting People?

John Schelhas, Max J Pfeffer

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores tha... Lees meer

War and Nature

Jurgen Brauer

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• 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 V... Lees meer

World in Motion

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow u... Lees meer

Communities and Conservation

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of thi... Lees meer

The Power of the Machine

Alf Hornborg

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment | nr. 1
• Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our eco... Lees meer

Global Capitalism and Climate Change

Hans A Baer

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes ye... Lees meer

Global Visions, Local Landscapes

Lisa L Gezon

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antank... Lees meer

World in Motion

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow u... Lees meer

The World's Scavengers

Martin Medina

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food. Lees meer

Computing Our Way to Paradise?

Robert Rattle

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. T... Lees meer

The Power of the Machine

Alf Hornborg

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment | nr. 1
• Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our eco... Lees meer

The World's Scavengers

Martin Medina

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food. Lees meer

Globalization and the World Ocean

Peter Jacques

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric conditions to global political phenomena. He shows how human... Lees meer

Rethinking Environmental History

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time.... Lees meer

Globalization, Health, and the Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. Through case studies of cu... Lees meer

Rethinking Environmental History

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time.... Lees meer

Capitalizing on Catastrophe

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have pre... Lees meer

Capitalizing on Catastrophe

• Paperback | Globalization and the Environment
• Capitalizing on Catastrophe critically explores the phenomenon of "disaster capitalism," in which relief efforts for natural disasters and other large... Lees meer

Global Visions, Local Landscapes

Lisa L Gezon

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges ... Lees meer

War and Nature

Jurgen Brauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the ef... Lees meer

Confronting Environments

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• James Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just th... Lees meer

Saving Forests, Protecting People?

John Schelhas, Max J Pfeffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups... Lees meer