Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links.
"In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. Dauvergne traces the environmental consequences of five commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, a…
Should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world? Through a study of debates about the environment agricultural biotechnology, synthetic biology, and human enhancement, Gregory E. Kaebnick argues that such moral concerns about nature can be legitimate but are …
This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. From the early-eighteenth century, settlers moved to the semi-arid but fertile grasslands from wetter, forested regions in central and northern Russia and Ukraine, and from central Europe. By the late-nineteenth centur…
Young people have an enormous stake in the present and future state of Earth. Almost half of the human population is under the age of 25. If young people?s resources of energy, time, and knowledge are misdirected towards violence, terrorism, socially-isolating technologies, and …
Fluoride is known to occur at elevated concentration in a number of parts of the world where it can be a significant cause of disease. The primary focus of this book is the prevention of adverse health effects from excessive levels of fluoride in drinking-water. The book provide…
