Environment and society : a critical introduction / Third edition

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	Environment and society: a critical introduction / Paul Robbins, John Hintz, and Sarah A. Moore.
개인저자	Robbins, Paul, 1967- author. Hintz, John, author. Moore, Sarah A., author.
판사항	Third edition.
발행사항	Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022
형태사항	380 p. ; 26 cm.
총서사항	Critical introductions to geography
ISBN	9781119408239 9781119408260 9781119408246
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
요약	"This book is designed to explain these varied interpretive tools and perspectives and show them in operation. Our strategy is first to present the dominant modes of thinking about environment-society relations and then to apply them to a few familiar objects of the world around us. By environment, we mean the whole of the aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric non-human world, including specific objects in their varying forms, like trees, carbon dioxide, or water, as well as the organic and inorganic systems and processes that link and transform them, like photosynthesis, predator-prey relationships, or soil erosion. Society, conversely, includes the humans of the Earth and the larger systems of culture, politics, and economic exchange that govern their interrelationships. From the outset we must insist that these two categories are interlaced and impossible to separate. Humans are obviously environmental beings subject to organic processes. Equally problematically, environmental processes are also fundamentally social, in the sense that they link people and influence human relationships. Photosynthesis is the basis of agriculture, for example, and so is perhaps the most critical environmental process in the history of civilization. More complex: human transformation of carbon levels in the atmosphere may further alter global photosynthesis in a dramatic way, with implications for human food and social organization. Obviously, it is difficult to tell where the environment leaves off and society begins. On the other hand, there is not universal agreement on these relationships and linkages. The perspectives summarized in this text present very different views about which parts of society and environment are connected to which, under what conditions these change or can be altered, and what the best courses of action tend to be, with enormous implications for both thinking about our place in the ecosystem and solving very immediate problems like global warming, deforestation, or the decline in the world's fisheries"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Environmental sciences --Social aspects. Environmental protection --Social aspects. Human ecology --Social aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	333.72
언어	영어