SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society, Hardcover by Pretty, Jules (EDT); B...

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SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society, Hardcover by Pretty, Jules (EDT); Ball, Andrew S. (EDT); Benton, Ted (EDT); Guivant, Julia S. (EDT); Lee, David R. (EDT), ISBN 141291843X, ISBN-13 9781412918435, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The editors (of the U. of Essex in the UK, Flinders U. in Australia, U. Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil, and Cornell U. and Oberlin College in the US) present a multidisciplinary collection of 40 papers surveying key theoretical and empirical issues concerning the relationship between society and the environment. Opening chapters address environmental thought in the Enlightenment, anarchist and libertarian traditions, ecofeminism, deep ecology, Marxist and other left traditions, general ethics, and anti-environmentalism. The following set of papers addresses environmental valuation and includes discussion of economic questions for choosing environmental management instruments, preference valuation, economic valuation of ecosystem services, assessment of environment-development tradeoffs, and the economics of the European Union Water Framework Directive. Epistemological issues are addressed in papers individually discussing ecological design and education; knowing systems and the environment; volunteer environmental monitoring, knowledge creation, and citizen-scientist interaction; environmental ethics; and biocultural diversity and sustainability. The next section is concerned with the political economy of environmental change and in

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, The Limited
• Year: 2007
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781412918435
• Condition: Fine

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