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| Author | : William B. Meyer |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2017-05-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 331954232X |
This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses the key reasons for the doctrine’s rejection and presents alternative, non-deterministic frameworks developed within geography for analyzing the roles played by the environment in human affairs. The authors examine the rise in recent decades of neo-deterministic approaches to such issues as the demarcation of regions, the causes of civilizational collapse in prehistory, today’s globally uneven patterns of human well-being, and the consequences of human-induced climate change. In each case, the authors draw on the insights and approaches of geography, the academic discipline most conversant with the interactions of society and environment, to challenge the widespread acceptance that such approaches have won. The book will appeal to those working on human-environmental research, international development and global policy initiatives.
| Author | : Shawn William Miller |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2007-08-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316224325 |
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.
| Author | : L. Joseph Su |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2015-05-18 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1447166787 |
This book examines the toxicological and health implications of environmental epigenetics and provides knowledge through an interdisciplinary approach. Included in this volume are chapters outlining various environmental risk factors such as phthalates and dietary components, life states such as pregnancy and ageing, hormonal and metabolic considerations and specific disease risks such as cancer cardiovascular diseases and other non-communicable diseases. Environmental Epigenetics imparts integrative knowledge of the science of epigenetics and the issues raised in environmental epidemiology. This book is intended to serve both as a reference compendium on environmental epigenetics for scientists in academia, industry and laboratories and as a textbook for graduate level environmental health courses. Environmental Epigenetics imparts integrative knowledge of the science of epigenetics and the issues raised in environmental epidemiology. This book is intended to serve both as a reference compendium on environmental epigenetics for scientists in academia, industry and laboratories and as a textbook for graduate level environmental health courses.
| Author | : Alfred W. Crosby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107569877 |
A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.
| Author | : Richard Peet |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780415312363 |
Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.
| Author | : Ellen Adams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110719752X |
A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.
| Author | : Scott Lash |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 1996-01-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1848609574 |
This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in `risk societies′.
| Author | : Jill Walker Rettberg |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013-08-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0745655963 |
Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. This book-length study of a now everyday phenomenon provides a close look at blogging while placing it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. Scholars, students and bloggers will find a lively survey of blogging that contextualises blogs in terms of critical theory and the history of digital media. Authored by a scholar-blogger, the book is packed with examples that show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication. It gives definitions and explains how blogs work, shows how blogs relate to the historical development of publishing and communication and looks at the ways blogs structure social networks and at how social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook incorporate blogging in their design. Specific kinds of blogs discussed include political blogs, citizen journalism, confessional blogs and commercial blogs.
| Author | : Jon Cruddas |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2021-04-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1509540806 |
Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and agency of the labour interest. This timely book is a brilliant intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
| Author | : Noel Castree |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 8364 |
| Release | : 2017-03-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0470659637 |
Representing the definitive reference work for this broad and dynamic field, The International Encyclopedia of Geography arises from an unprecedented collaboration between Wiley and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) to review and define the concepts, research, and techniques in geography and interrelated fields. Available as a robust online resource and as a 15-volume full-color print set, the Encyclopedia assembles a truly global group of scholars for a comprehensive, authoritative overview of geography around the world. Contains more than 1,000 entries ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 words offering accessible introductions to basic concepts, sophisticated explanations of complex topics, and information on geographical societies around the world Assembles a truly global group of more than 900 scholars hailing from over 40 countries, for a comprehensive, authoritative overview of geography around the world Provides definitive coverage of the field, encompassing human geography, physical geography, geographic information science and systems, earth studies, and environmental science Brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on geographical topics and techniques of interest across the social sciences, humanities, science, and medicine Features full color throughout the print version and more than 1,000 illustrations and photographs Annual updates to online edition
