0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R50 - R100 (16)
  • R100 - R250 (53)
  • R250 - R500 (229)
  • R500+ (1,329)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology

Climate Justice - A Man-Made Problem With A Feminist Solution (Paperback): Mary Robinson Climate Justice - A Man-Made Problem With A Feminist Solution (Paperback)
Mary Robinson 1
R302 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018

Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people - people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.

Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change.

Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.

The Last Tree - A Seed of Hope (Hardcover): Luke Adam Hawker The Last Tree - A Seed of Hope (Hardcover)
Luke Adam Hawker
R470 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R94 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Together. Imagine a world without trees. A world that is in many ways like our world, but where magnificent canopies, tree climbing and leaves rustling in the breeze are now only distant memories. Until a young girl comes along, a girl who is brave and spirited and willing to follow where her imagination takes her. Through Olive's adventures in the world of trees we are reminded of nature's extraordinary power and beauty, and her actions ultimately sow the seeds of new life in her own world. From the mind and pen of bestselling author Luke Adam Hawker, The Last Tree is a powerful evocation of the fragility of our natural world and a magnificent celebration of its beauty. Praise for Together: "An accurate and thoughtful account of one of the most challenging years in modern history." -The Guardian "Hawker's images always seem to have just the right mixture of gravitas and sly, understated humour." -The Scotsman

The Solutions are Already Here - Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (Paperback): Peter Gelderloos The Solutions are Already Here - Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (Paperback)
Peter Gelderloos
R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realise their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal. Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalised to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.

A New Environmental Ethics - The Next Millennium for Life on Earth (Hardcover): Holmes Rolston III A New Environmental Ethics - The Next Millennium for Life on Earth (Hardcover)
Holmes Rolston III
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it.

A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment. Rolston, an early and leading pioneer in studying the moral relationship between humans and the earth, surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics. This book, however, is not simply a judicious overview. Instead, it offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts and draws on a lifetime of research and experience to suggest an outlook for the future. As a result, this focused, forward-looking analysis will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics, and will teach its readers to be responsible global citizens, and residents of their landscape, helping ensure that the future we have will be the one we wish for.

Less Is More - How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback): Jason Hickel Less Is More - How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
Jason Hickel
R335 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R62 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH.

Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now.

Dialogues on Climate Justice (Paperback): Stephen M. Gardiner, Arthur Obst Dialogues on Climate Justice (Paperback)
Stephen M. Gardiner, Arthur Obst
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis. The story follows the life and conversations of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a terrifyingly real problem: climate change. From the election of Donald Trump in 2016 until the 2060s, the book documents Hope's discussions with a diverse cast of characters. As she ages, her conversations move from establishing the nature of the problem, to engaging with climate skepticism, to exploring her own climate responsibilities, through managing contentious international negotiations, to considering big technological fixes, and finally, as an older woman, to reflecting with her granddaughter on what one generation owes another. Following a philosophical tradition established by Plato more than two thousand years ago, these dialogues are not only philosophically substantive and carefully argued, but also distinctly human. The differing perspectives on display mirror those involved in real-world climate dialogues going on today. Key Features: Written in an engaging dialogue form, which includes characterization, clear exchanges of ideas, and a compelling story arc Clearly organized to allow readers both in-depth consideration and rapid overviews of various topics Memorable examples that enable and encourage discussion inside and outside the classroom An Introduction to the book aimed at instructors, which includes helpful instructions for teaching the book and engaging student assignments

Cultural Sustainability - Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover): Torsten Meireis, Gabriele Rippl Cultural Sustainability - Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Torsten Meireis, Gabriele Rippl
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social, cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. People's worldviews, beliefs and principles have an immediate impact on how they act and should be studied as cultural dimensions of sustainability. Collating contributions from internationally renowned theoreticians of culture and leading researchers working in the humanities and social sciences, this volume presents an in-depth, interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability and the public visibility of such research. Beginning with a discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability, it goes on to explore its interaction with philosophy, theology, sociology, economics, arts and literature. In doing so, the book develops a much needed concept of 'culture' that can be adapted to various disciplines and applied to research on sustainability. Addressing an important gap in sustainability research, this book will be of great interest to academics and students of sustainability and sustainable development, as well as those studying sustainability within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural studies, ethics, theology, sociology, literature and history.

Freedom and Environment - Autonomy, Human Flourishing and the Political Philosophy of Sustainability (Paperback): Michael Hannis Freedom and Environment - Autonomy, Human Flourishing and the Political Philosophy of Sustainability (Paperback)
Michael Hannis
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa? Can we be genuinely free and live in sustainable societies? This book argues that we can, if we recognise and celebrate our ecological embeddedness, rather than seeking to transcend it. But this does not mean freedom can simply be redefined to fit within ecological limits. Addressing current unsustainability will involve significant restrictions, and hence will require political justification, not just scientific evidence. Drawing on material from perfectionist liberalism, capabilities approaches, human rights, relational ethics and virtue theory, Michael Hannis explores the relationship between freedom and sustainability, considering how each contributes to human flourishing. He argues that a substantive and ecologically literate conception of human flourishing can underpin both capability-based environmental rights and a eudaimonist ecological virtue ethics. With such a foundation in place, public authorities can act both to facilitate ecological virtue, and to remove structural incentives to ecological vice. Freedom and Environment is a lucid addition to existing literature in environmental politics and virtue ethics, and will be an excellent resource to those studying debates about freedom with debates about ecological sustainability.

Global Water Ethics - Towards a global ethics charter (Hardcover): Rafael Ziegler, David Groenfeldt Global Water Ethics - Towards a global ethics charter (Hardcover)
Rafael Ziegler, David Groenfeldt
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice. Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of water ethics in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal water ethics charter, alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics. Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science.

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives (Hardcover): Yanoula Athanassakis Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives (Hardcover)
Yanoula Athanassakis
R4,350 Discovery Miles 43 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural production in the work of a number of historically significant writers including John Steinbeck, Ruth Ozeki, and Cherrie Moraga, this book outlines a series of incisive dialogues on transnational flows of capital and environmental justice. Texts ranging from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) to Body Toxic (2001) represent the body as vulnerable to a host of environmental risks. They identify "natural disasters" not just as environmental hazards and catastrophes, but also as events intertwined with socioeconomic issues. With careful textual analysis, Athanassakis shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century US writers have sought to rethink traditional understandings of how the human being relates to ecological phenomena. Their work, and this study, offer new modes of creative engagement with environmental degradation - engagement that is proactive, ambivalent, and even playful. This book contributes to vital discussions about the importance of literature for social justice movements, food studies, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities. The core argument of the book is that artistically imaginative narratives of environmental disturbance can help humans contend with ostensibly uncontrollable, drastic planetary changes.

No Destination - Autobiography of a Pilgrim (Paperback, 4th edition): Satish Kumar No Destination - Autobiography of a Pilgrim (Paperback, 4th edition)
Satish Kumar
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India into reality. Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook a peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through mountains, deserts, storms and snow. It was an adventure during which he was thrown into jail in France, faced a loaded gun in America, and delivered packets of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. He settled in England, taking on the editorship of Resurgence magazine, and becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures, including Schumacher College.This edition of Satish Kumar's inspirational autobiography commemorates the foundation of Schumacher College, with new chapters about the college and bringing Satish's story up-to-date. Following Indian tradition, in his fiftieth year he undertook another pilgrimage: again without any money, he walked to the holy places of Britain - Glastonbury, Lindisfarne, and Iona. Written with a penetrating simplicity, No Destination is an exhilarating account of an extraordinary life.

The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal (Paperback): Charles B Keeney The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal (Paperback)
Charles B Keeney
R714 R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Save R127 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield-sometimes dubbed 'labor's Gettysburg'-from destruction by mountaintop removal mining. The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney-a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney-led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.

What If We Stopped Pretending? (Hardcover): Jonathan Franzen What If We Stopped Pretending? (Hardcover)
Jonathan Franzen
R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world's inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.' The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen's writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world's failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

Small Places, Large Issues - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback, 5th edition): Thomas Hylland... Small Places, Large Issues - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback, 5th edition)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 years Thomas Hylland Eriksen's lucid and accessible textbook has been a much respected and widely used undergraduate-level introduction to social anthropology. This fully updated fifth edition features brand new chapters on climate and medical anthropology, along with rewritten sections on ecology, nature and the Anthropocene. It also incorporates a more systematic engagement with gender and digitalisation throughout the text.

All We Want is the Earth - Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism (Hardcover): Patrick Bresnihan, Naomi Millner All We Want is the Earth - Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism (Hardcover)
Patrick Bresnihan, Naomi Millner
R2,097 Discovery Miles 20 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growth. However, the focus on spaces and species to be protected saw questions of human work and histories of colonialism pushed out of view. This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements. Many of these movements did not consider themselves ‘environmental,’ and yet they offer vital ways forward in the face of escalating ecological damage and social injustice.

All We Want is the Earth - Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism (Paperback): Patrick Bresnihan, Naomi Millner All We Want is the Earth - Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism (Paperback)
Patrick Bresnihan, Naomi Millner
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growth. However, the focus on spaces and species to be protected saw questions of human work and histories of colonialism pushed out of view. This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements. Many of these movements did not consider themselves ‘environmental,’ and yet they offer vital ways forward in the face of escalating ecological damage and social injustice.

Introduction to Ecological Psychology - A Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting, and Cognizing (Paperback): Julia J. C. Blau,... Introduction to Ecological Psychology - A Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting, and Cognizing (Paperback)
Julia J. C. Blau, Jeffrey B. Wagman
R2,322 Discovery Miles 23 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- The only undergraduate textbook on Ecological Psychology on the market. - Provides a broad-scale view of ecological psychology as it applies not only to perception-action but also to development, social interaction, the emergence of life and evolution, among other topics. - Growing international appeal in the ecological approach to psychology, particularly in South America and Japan, showing a strong global market.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene (Paperback): John Parham The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene (Paperback)
John Parham
R797 R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Save R43 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as 'cli-fi', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and 'new' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, 'fossil capital', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literature might yet help us imagine a better world.

Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Raia Silvia Massad, Benjamin Loubet
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When considering biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales. This was particularly stimulated by the availability of new datasets generated from improvements in analytical methods and flux measurement techniques. Recent research advances allow us, not only to identify major mechanisms and factors affecting the exchanges between the biosphere and the atmosphere, but also to recognize several gaps in the methodologies used in accounting for emissions and deposition in landscape and global scale models. This work aims at (i) reviewing exchange processes and modelling schemes, parameterisations and datasets, (ii) presenting a common conceptual framework to model soil-vegetation-atmosphere exchange of reactive trace gases and aerosols accounting for in-canopy transfer chemical interactions and (iii) discussing the key elements of the agreed framework.

People & Permaculture - Designing personal, collective and planetary well-being (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Looby... People & Permaculture - Designing personal, collective and planetary well-being (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Looby Macnamara; Illustrated by Rebecca Storch
R664 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R116 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people, to restore personal, social and planetary well-being. People and Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mostly about land based systems to taking it right into the heart of our own lives, relationships and society. It is for anyone who thought permaculture wasn t for them because they didn t have a garden. It is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to care for themselves, their friends and family and for the Earth. People and Permaculture transforms the context of permaculture making it relevant to everyone. It covers tools and techniques we can use in our own lives, investigates ways of creating harmony in our relationships and groups, and forges a wider vision for our social systems. It further explores how to expand our feelings of connection across the globe and finally focuses on how we can manifest a positive future with the use of a new design framework specifically created for people-based designs.

Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis - Critical realism and the Nordic Contributions (Hardcover): Roy Bhaskar, Petter Naess, Karl... Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis - Critical realism and the Nordic Contributions (Hardcover)
Roy Bhaskar, Petter Naess, Karl Hoyer
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Building on its origins at a seminar in Oslo organized by two of the editors, this book combines classic texts of Nordic ecophilosophy and the original contributions of those influenced by this tradition to present the view that critical realism is indeed a worthy intellectual tradition to carry forward and further develop the work of the founders of Nordic ecophilosophy.

It was clear at the seminar that there was a promising convergence of interests and themes in the two approaches; while at the same time, within the Nordic ecophilosophical tradition, there was appreciation of the capacity of critical realism, with its provision of a robust philosophical ontology and generation of totalizing immanent critiques of Western philosophy, to provide an expansive and secure home for the development of ecophilosophical work generally.

If there is a single overarching theme of critical realist philosophy, it surely must be that of the unity of theory and practice, which Bhaskar, following Hegel, has also called "seriousness." This makes the applicability, relevance and actionability of critical realism key considerations for critical realists. There can be no doubt that this concern was shared fully by the Nordic ecophilosophers; and this quality of "seriousness" is a striking feature of the Nordic contributions presented in this book.

Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects (Hardcover): John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise... Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects (Hardcover)
John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise a Fallon, Paul B. Sherman, Supachit Manipomoke
R3,902 Discovery Miles 39 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development projects on the environments in which they are constructed. This study demands the systematic evaluation of all the intentional and unintentional consequences of development initiatives before they are determined upon. It is essential reading for development economists, analysts and bankers. Originally published in 1986

The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Arthur P.J. Mol, David A.... The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren
R5,285 Discovery Miles 52 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological Modernisation Theory; original, state-of-the-art review essays by distinguished international scholars; a selection of the best published works and debates from a quarter-century of related social science scholarship; an emphasis on environmental issues in Asian and other emerging economies; and an agenda for continued scholarship, policymaking, and practice. Accessible to students, policymakers, professionals, executives, and others interested in deeply understanding contemporary environmental issues and taking effective action for environmental solutions. Rigorous and sophisticated for use in graduate and advanced studies. Appropriate for courses in Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies, Environmental Planning, Business, Economics, Asian Studies, Development Studies, and other fields.

Everybody Needs Beauty - In Search of the Nature Cure (Paperback): Samantha Walton Everybody Needs Beauty - In Search of the Nature Cure (Paperback)
Samantha Walton
R308 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Beautifully written, intimate and intellectually fascinating' Nathan Filer 'This book represents, genuinely, a moment of ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access and wellbeing in late capitalism' Dr Alice Tarbuck 'Impeccably researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the simplicity and complexity of nature' Lara Maiklem, bestselling author of Mudlarking Everybody is talking about the healing properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens, and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor's surgery with anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature. Where has this come from, and what does 'going to nature' mean? Where is it - at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science, literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has deep roots - but, as we face an unprecedented crisis of mental health, social injustice and environmental devastation, the search for it is more urgent now than ever. Everybody Needs Beauty engages seriously with the connection between nature and health, while scrutinising the harmful trends of a wellness industry that seeks to exploit our relationship with the natural world. In doing so, this book explores how the nature cure might lead us towards a more just and radical way of life: a real means of recovery, for people, society and nature.

Environmental Politics 2E + Cases in Environmental Politics (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Norman Miller Environmental Politics 2E + Cases in Environmental Politics (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Norman Miller
R1,964 R1,564 Discovery Miles 15 640 Save R400 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At every stage, environmental policy is the result of the struggle of stakeholders interested in, and affected by, the problem being addressed and the range of possible solutions. The interested parties in any given policy dispute may include federal regulatory agencies, environmental advocacy groups, businesses and their lobbying arms, the media, the scientific community, think tanks, NGOs of every stripe, trade associations and professional organizations, and even state and local governments, each of whom have their own interests in the resulting policy. Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking discusses political battles over the environment from the ground level - as they are fought in legislative chambers, the cloakroom, the daily newspaper, on television, and on the Internet. The text explores environmental politics as a clash of interests, not ideologies, and environmental policy as a result of the reconciliation of those interests. The casebook emphasizes the struggle for power among stakeholders in environmental politics and policymaking. Whether examining energy policy, air pollution, endangered species, land use, or the politics of food, each case is presented through a narrative introduction and 3-4 primary source documents that illustrate whose interests are at stake and how they pursue them in the policymaking process.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Green Is Not A Colour - Environmental…
Devan Valenti, Simon Atlas Paperback  (3)
R420 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280
Handbook on International Development…
Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar-Støen Hardcover R4,647 Discovery Miles 46 470
Why Conserve Nature? - Perspectives on…
Stephen Trudgill Paperback R1,329 R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530
Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism
David Tindall, Mark C. J. Stoddart, … Hardcover R6,369 Discovery Miles 63 690
Advanced Introduction to Applied Green…
Rob White Paperback R578 Discovery Miles 5 780
Advanced Introduction to Applied Green…
Rob White Hardcover R2,572 Discovery Miles 25 720
On Listening
Angus Carlyle, Cathy Lane Paperback R450 Discovery Miles 4 500
Political Ecology - The Climate Crisis…
Dimitrios I Roussopoulos Paperback R395 Discovery Miles 3 950
There's A Hippo In My Cistern - One…
Pete May Paperback R276 Discovery Miles 2 760
Handbook on Inequality and the…
Michael A Long, Michael J Lynch, … Hardcover R7,466 Discovery Miles 74 660

 

Partners