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Author(s): Paul Robbins, John Hintz, Sarah A. Moore
ISBN(s): 9781118451564, 1118451562
Edition: 2
File Details: PDF, 13.22 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1118451564

ISBN 13: 978-1118451564

Author: Paul Robbins

Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.

Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on environmental solutions
Discusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to objects like bottled water, tuna, and trees
Accessible for students, and accompanied by in-book and online resources including exercises and boxed discussions, an online test bank, notes, suggested reading, and website links for enhanced understanding
Offers additional online support for instructors, including suggested teaching models, PowerPoint slides for each chapter with full-color graphics, and supplementary images and teaching material

Table of contents: 

1.Introduction

  • The View from a Human-Made Wilderness

  • What Is This Book?

  • The Authors’ Points of View

Part 1: Approaches and Perspectives

2. Population and Scarcity

  • A Crowded Desert City

  • The Problem of “Geometric” Growth

  • Population, Development, and Environmental Impact

  • Population and Innovation

  • Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause?

  • Thinking with Population

3. Markets and Commodities

  • The Bet

  • Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem

  • Market Failure

  • Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems

  • Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy

  • Thinking with Markets

4. Institutions and “The Commons”

  • Controlling Carbon?

  • The Prisoner’s Dilemma

  • The Tragedy of the Commons

  • Evidence and Logic of Collective Action

  • Crafting Sustainable Environmental Institutions

  • Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter?

  • Thinking with Institutions

5. Environmental Ethics

  • The Price of Cheap Meat

  • From Biblical Tradition to John Locke

  • Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir

  • Aldo Leopold and “The Land Ethic”

  • Liberation for Animals!

  • Holism, Scientism, and Other Pitfalls

  • Thinking with Ethics

6. Risks and Hazards

  • Great Floods

  • Environments as Hazard

  • Risk Perception

  • Risk as Culture

  • The Political Economy of Hazards

  • Thinking with Hazards and Risk

7. Political Economy

  • The Logic of “Under-pollution”

  • Labor, Accumulation, and Crisis

  • Production of Nature

  • Global Capitalism and Uneven Development

  • Social Reproduction and Nature

  • Environments and Economism

  • Thinking with Political Economy

8. Social Construction of Nature

  • Welcome to the Jungle

  • Is It “Natural”?

  • Environmental Discourse

  • Constructivism and the Material World

  • Thinking with Construction

Part 2: Objects of Concern

9. Carbon Dioxide

  • Stuck in Pittsburgh Traffic

  • A Short History of CO₂

  • Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Cooperation

  • Markets: Trading Gases, Buying Carbon

  • Political Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere?

  • The Carbon Puzzle

10. Trees

  • Chained to a Tree in Berkeley

  • A Short History of Trees

  • Population and Markets: Forest Transition Theory

  • Political Economy: Accumulation and Deforestation

  • Ethics, Justice, and Equity

  • The Tree Puzzle

11. Wolves

  • The Death of 832F

  • A Short History of Wolves

  • Ethics: Rewilding and Wolves

  • Institutions: Stakeholder Management

  • Social Construction: Of Wolves and Men

  • The Wolf Puzzle

12. Uranium

  • Renaissance Derailed?

  • A Short History of Uranium

  • Risk and Hazards: Radioactive Waste

  • Political Economy: Environmental Justice and Navajo Nation

  • Social Construction: Development vs. Wilderness

  • The Uranium Puzzle

13. Tuna

  • Blood Tuna

  • A Short History of Tuna

  • Markets: Eco-Labels

  • Political Economy: Fishery Regulation

  • Ethics: Saving Animals, Conserving Species

  • The Tuna Puzzle

14. Lawns

  • How Much Do People Love Lawns?

  • A Short History of Lawns

  • Risk and Chemical Decision-Making

  • Social Construction: Lawns and Identity

  • Political Economy: The Turfgrass Industry

  • The Lawn Puzzle

15. Bottled Water

  • A Tale of Two Bottles

  • A Short History of Bottled Water

  • Population: Bottling Scarcity

  • Risk: Health and Safety

  • Political Economy: Enclosed Commons

  • The Bottled Water Puzzle

16. French Fries

  • Getting Your French Fry Fix

  • A Short History of the Fry

  • Risk Analysis: Choice and Diet

  • Political Economy: Fast Food Systems

  • Ethics: Heritage vs. Engineering

  • The French Fry Puzzle

17. E-Waste

  • Digital Divides

  • A Short History of E-Waste

  • Risk: E-Waste Hazards

  • Markets: From Waste to Commodity

  • Political Economy: E-Waste Justice

  • The E-Waste Puzzle

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