Understanding Environmental IssuesSusan Buckingham, Mike Turner SAGE, 2008 M05 13 - 288 pages "Understanding Environmental Issues provides an excellent foundation for developing critical thinking about contemporary environmental concerns and the ways in which these are debated, represented and managed. The book should achieve its aim of stimulating students to engage with how ideas of sustainability and environmental justice can be applied both in policy and in practical action."
Vivid, accessible and pedagogically informed, Understanding Environmental Issues will be a key resource for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students in Geography, Environment, and Ecology; as well as students of the social sciences with an interest in environmental issues. |
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... groups took on 'live' problem solving with NGOs, as some of the examples in the book illustrate. Many guest ... group learning and keynote presentations from leaders in the field has inspired many students to move into jobs and graduate ...
... groups in that society create, control and maintain knowledge. The ways in which these bodies of knowledge are naturalised (that is, become accepted as normal and generally uncontested by the majority of people) are myriad. In the UK ...
... groups use in different ways to serve their own purposes. After all, its very coinage was a compromise between the development imperatives of business, and of countries in the global south heavily reliant on their natural resources for ...
... groups, to continue to expand. This echoes the success of the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) achieved in the 1980s after their use was scientifically linked to the erosion of the atmospheric ozone layer. Indeed, Jordan (1998) ...
... group of human geographers worked with a team of student engineers from an American university, which incorporates three months of applied community practice as part of their degree programme (including projects such as the evaluation ...
Contents
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Environmental Economics and the Limits to Growth Debate | 56 |
5 Geoinformation Technology and the Environment | 77 |
SECTION 2 CASE STUDIES | 119 |
6 Food | 121 |
7 Waste | 150 |
8 Global Climate Change | 175 |
9 Natural Hazards | 207 |
10 Mexico City | 235 |
Index | 265 |