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Urgency in the Anthropocene
Is this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty…
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- 9780262348898
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)
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Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice
"In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers political conflicts over pesticide drift in California, using them to illuminate the broader problem and its potential solutions. The fact that pesticide pollution and illnesses associated with it disproportionately affect the poor and the powerless raises questions of environmental justice (and political injustice). Despite California's impressive…
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- 9780262298766
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions
An argument that moral reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation.Rationalists about the psychology of moral judgment argue that moral cognition has a rational foundation. Recent challenges to this account, based on findings in the empirical psychology of moral judgment, contend that m…
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- 9780262337250
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) :illustrations.
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Pricing corporate securities as contingent claims
An examination of the relative value of securities in a corporation's capital structure, using the concept of contingent value analysis.In 1973, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton pointed out that securities issued by a corporation can be priced as claims whose values are contingent on the value of the enterprise as a whole. The notion of treating corporate securities as contingent…
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- 9780262273480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) :illustrations
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The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks
For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. This book argues that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks - that environmental communities 'narrate themselves into existence'. The book p…
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- 9781461937128
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Principle B, VP ellipsis, and interpretation in child grammar
This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis. Among the universal principles are those known as the principles of the binding theory. These principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns, and referring express…
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- 9780262284974
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An inclusive academy : achieving diversity and excellence
How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346221
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 491 pages)
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Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injus…
Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295680
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- 1 online resource (vi, 303 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Flint fights back :environmental justice and democracy in the Flint water crisis
An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy. When Flint, Michigan, changed its source of municipal water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, Flint residents were repeatedly assured that the water was of the highest quality. At the switchover ceremony, the mayor and other officials performed a celebrat…
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- 9780262352932
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- 1 online resource (432 pages) :illustrations
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Fighting king coal :the challenges to micromobilization in central Appalachia
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge.…
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