Social Dimensions of Contemporary Environmental Issues: International PerspectivesP. Ester, Wolfgang Schluchter Tilburg University Press, 1996 - 231 pages Provides a comprehensive insight into the way social scientists contemplate environmental problems, both in terms of perceived causes and solutions |
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... possible now . And it looks as if the animosity between science and religion belongs to the past , thanks to the partition of perspectives . Not only science , but also religion now have become more modest . Nobody wants to play first ...
... possible now . And it looks as if the animosity between science and religion belongs to the past , thanks to the partition of perspectives . Not only science , but also religion now have become more modest . Nobody wants to play first ...
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... possible connection between hamburger meat and the transformation of forests in Costa Rica into pastures , which may in some years turn into a wasteland ? The specific epistemological requirements arising from the linking of the social ...
... possible connection between hamburger meat and the transformation of forests in Costa Rica into pastures , which may in some years turn into a wasteland ? The specific epistemological requirements arising from the linking of the social ...
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... possible harvest and quality losses , e.g. through the emissions of the cooling towers . Yet background motive was also the rural population's fear of cultural foreignization ( Überfremdung ' ) caused by the advance of big industry into ...
... possible harvest and quality losses , e.g. through the emissions of the cooling towers . Yet background motive was also the rural population's fear of cultural foreignization ( Überfremdung ' ) caused by the advance of big industry into ...
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