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This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental
Politics, presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in
contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.
Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a
fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a
marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place
in the intellectual mainstream. Subdivided into clear sections on
political theory, social movements, political economy and policy
questions, and assisted by a contextualising introduction, this
volume focuses on a set of clear themes: the character of green
political theory relationships with other political traditions and
theories origins and dynamics of contemporary environmental
politics differences, similarities and tensions between the North
and South the relationship of environmentalism to market economics
and ecological modernization environmental aspects of distributive
justice at the local, national and global levels the roles, value
and valuing of nature in green theory and institutional practice.
As a compilation, this book is unique. It delivers a snapshot of a
variety of issues in the field, and is therefore ideally suited to
teaching purposes, especially at postgraduate level. In addition,
as each section is chronologically arranged, an evolution of
related ideas can be clearly seen and appreciated, which builds an
excellent understanding of the field of environmental politics
The book aims to give, via a collection of representative papers
from the journal Environmental Politics, an overview of both the
evolution and the diverse themes found in contemporary green
political thought, especially as found in the industrialized
nations. Accordingly, it charts the key research papers from the
leading European journal of environmental politics since the early
1990s, a period in which environmental politics developed from a
marginal status in society and the academy through to its current
place as a mainstream intellectual consideration; in doing so the
book will both trace a development of ideas and give an overview of
the diverse vital considerations in the field today. Subdivided
into sections on political theory, social movements, political
economy and policy questions, and assisted by a contextualizing
introduction, the collection deals with a set of themes that
include the following:
- The character of green political theory and its relationships
with other political traditions and theories,
- the origins and dynamics of contemporary environmental politics
in collective responses to particular issues,
- the differences, similarities and practical tensions between the
environmental politics of the North and that of the South,
- the relationship of environmental politics to market economics
and ecological modernization
- the environmental aspects of distributive justice concerns at the
local, national and global institutional levels
- the roles, value and valuing of nature in green theory and
institutional practice.
As a compilation, the book operates in a unique way. It serves on
one side as a compilation volume of key papers thatprovides a
snapshot of a whole variety of issues in the field, and is thus
suitable for teaching purposes, especially at postgraduate level.
In addition, each section is chronologically arranged, and so an
evolution of related ideas is manifest in the selection, thus
making the book an ideal "one stop" purchase for those seeking to
understand the development of the field of environmental politics
since the start of the 1990s, especially as it has been practiced
in developed nations outside the American continent.
Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extra tropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification.
* An introduction to the global climate system and the space-time scales of weather and climate processes, * Climate data and their analysis * General circulation of the global atmosphere * Nature and causes of global teleconnection patterns * Synoptic weather systems in the extra tropics and tropics and satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features * Descriptions of applications of synoptic climatology * Summary of current climatic research and its directions.
The work is thoroughly up to date, with extensive bibliographies by chapter. It is illustrated with nearly 300 figures and plates. Its comprehensive reference lists provide an invaluable guide to further study.
Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification. It is unrivalled in the scope and detail of its contents. The work is thoroughly up to date, with extensive bibliographies by chapter. It is illustrated with nearly 300 figures and plates. *Part 1 provides an introduction to the global climate system and the space-time scales of weather and climate processes, followed by a chapter on climate data and their analysis *Part 2 describes and explains the characteristics of the general circulation of the global atmosphere and includes the nature and causes of global teleconnection patterns *Part 3 discusses synoptic weather systems in the extratropics and tropics and satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features. It also describes the applications of synoptic climatology and summarises current climatic research and its directions.
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Life Hunt (Paperback)
Barry Andrews Chambers, Neila Skinner Petrick
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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Apocalyptic science fiction story based on true stories of hybrid
movement. Earth's devastation caused by man's overreaching greed
leads to a war of seeds that culminates in two young people holding
the key to saving the earth from a food virus run amok.
Poetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National
Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative
institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over by
radical poets. The story is told from primary sources, including
the Arts Council's Records at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the
Eric Mottram Archive at King's College London, and the Barry
MacSweeney Collection at Newcastle University, and from
contemporary newspaper accounts. The story has never been made
public before in documentary detail, though brief reference is
often made to it in accounts of contemporary poetry, and anecdotes
and hearsay about these events have been in circulation for over
twenty years. The repercussions continue to reverberate, and
struggles of the same nature continue in the Poetry Society and
other cultural institutions today. The question of how an
avant-garde 'negotiates' with the 'centre' it seeks to displace
remains crucial, and this issue is of increasing importance to the
study of literature and the arts in the twentieth and twenty first
centuries.The book is in three sections: the first, 'Chronology'
(chapters 1-5), tells the story of the events; the second, 'Themes'
(chapters 6-9), considers the events from various thematic
viewpoints, and includes a detailed chapter on the writing,
teaching, and editing practice of Eric Mottram, and another on the
characteristics of the 'British Poetry Revival' of the 1970s. The
third section, 'Documents', reproduces a series of contemporary
documents from the relevant archives, along with new summary data
about the personalities involved.
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