S Lockie - Routledge International Handbook of Social and …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The world is 'full'and 'unequal'(Milanovic 2005). This is scarcely a novel assertion and yet the implications remain fundamentally underappreciated. With roughly seven billion people …
JX Kasperson, RE Kasperson, BL Turner - 2009 - direct.mit.edu
In Our Common Future, its wake-up call to a world confronted by accelerating environmental changes, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987) …
This book provides a critical review of global environmental governance as part of the broader process of sustainably transforming modern society. The author argues for …
APJ Mol, G Spaargaren… - … handbook of social and …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
With the rebirth of environmental concern among social scientists in the 1960s and 1970s, scholars initially were preoccupied with explaining environmental devastation. Their central …
Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity's dependence on favourable …
Why worry about the global environment? Are the financial crisis and poverty not far more urgent? And will technological innovation not solve global warming? Looking at problems as …
WL Goldfrank, D Goodman, A Szasz - 1999 - books.google.com
Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South …
HK Jacobson - Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable …, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
The first three topics encompass the central issues involved in understanding the human dimensions of global environmental change. The dynamic interaction among populations …
This issue marks the twentieth anniversary of Global Environmental Change. Those 20 years have also marked the period of global environmental agreements, with 2012 two …