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

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

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

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

Globalization, Health, and the Environment

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabili... 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

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

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

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

Communities and Conservation

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and the Environment
• The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management... 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

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

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

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