This work provides insights into war and domestic insecurity terrorism, and the costs of war and peace from new research that takes the political economy perspective on conflict.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An overview of the localist movement in the United States, from “buy local” campaigns to urban agriculture, and its potential for addressing global problems of sustainability and justice. The internationalization of economies and other changes that accompany globalization have brought about a paradoxical reemergence of the local. A significant but largely unstudied aspect of new local-gl…
After describing federal green energy initiatives in the first two years of the Obama administration, Hess turns his attention to the state and local levels, examining demand-side and supply-side support for green industry and local small business. He analyzes the successes and failures of green coalitions and the partisan patterns of support for green energy reform. This new piecemeal green in…
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.