Humanekologi

Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet

by McKibben, Bill

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McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--Still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down,…

The human impact on the natural environment: past, present and future

by Goudie, Andrew

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The seventh edition of this classic student text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms and the atmosphere. It also looks into the future and considers the ways in which climate changes and modifications…

Living in the environment

by Miller, G. Tyler, (George Tyler), Spoolman, Scott

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This volume has a balanced approach to environmental science instruction, with bias-free comparative diagrams throughout and a focus on prevention of and solutions to environmental problems.

Invisible nature: healing the destructive divide between people and…

by Worthy, Kenneth

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"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators-…

Integral ecology: uniting multiple perspectives on the natural world

by Zimmerman, Michael E., Esbjörn-Hargens, Sean

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"Integral Ecology unites valuable insights from multiple perspectives into a comprehensive theoretical framework - one that can be put to use right now. The framework is based on Integral Theory, as well as Ken Wilber's AQAL model, and is the result of over a decade of research …

Making the modern world: materials and dematerialization

by Smil, Vaclav

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"How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Ove…

Dancing with the river: people and life on the Chars of South Asia

by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Samanta, Gopa

fromYale agrarian studies

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This book offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of 'hybrid environments.' Focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal--the authors show how, both as real-life examples and…

Environmental and human security in the Arctic

by Hoogensen Gjørv, Gunhild

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"This is the first comprehensive exploration of why human security is relevant to the Arctic and what achieving it can mean. Change in the Arctic is occurring at an unprecedented rate, placing an immense strain on the many factors that contribute to human well-being and security…

Visuality/materiality: images, objects and practices

by Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful, Rose, Gillian

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Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualisi…

Maps of time: an introduction to big history

by Christian, David

fromCalifornia world history library

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Maps of Time unites natural history and human history in a single, grand, and intelligible narrative. This is a great achievement, analogous to the way in which Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century united the heavens and the earth under uniform laws of motion; it is even more…