Filter by
New earth politics :essays from the Anthropocene
Prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, included are - reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflectio…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262332132
- Collation
- 1 online resource :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262329798
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Conceptual innovation in environmental policy
"Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning and debate and serve as building blocks for more elaborate arguments. This book traces the links between conceptual innovation in the environmental sphere and the evolution of environmental policy and discourse. It offers both a broad framework for examining the emergence, evolution…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262341585
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Hijacking Sustainability
How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the "greening" of the American military.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262254861
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to t…
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262282918
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it fr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262274111
- Collation
- 1 online resource (408 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The grassroots of a green revolution :polling America on the environment
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, environmentalism has become woven into the fabric of American life. Concern for environmental quality has influenced how we think, work, and recreate; what we buy; and how we govern. But popular consensus on the environment is more complicated than it appears. The real question is no longer whether Americans side with environmentalism, but the depth of their c…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262274487
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Living through the end of nature :the future of American environmentalism
"Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now every where and all efforts to "preserve" nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is n…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262266000
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The shadows of consumption : Consequences for the Global Environment
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The resistance dilemma :place-based movements and the climate crisis
"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving po…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262367158
- Collation
- 1 online resource.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography