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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “josh lepawsky”
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  • Electronic Waste

    A Reference Handbook

    by Josh Lepawsky ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    The United Nations has reported that the world is on track to produce over 180 billion pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) by 2030.This tidal wave of discarded electronic products, including cellular phones, laptop and desktop computers, televisions, solar panels, major household appliances, and telecommunications equipment, poses a host of serious environmental and public health problems and ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Reassembling Rubbish

    Worlding Electronic Waste

    by Josh Lepawsky ...
    An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste.The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish, Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies

    Edited by Zsuzsa Gille, Josh Lepawsky ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic, and political systems within which waste is created, managed, and circulated.While scholars have not settled on a definitive categorization of what waste studies is, more and more researchers claim that there is a distinct cluster of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Discard Studies

    Wasting, Systems, and Power

    by Max Liboiron, Josh Lepawsky ...
    An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things.Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Edited by Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... Read more

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  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Greening the Media

    by Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller ...
    You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Greening the Media not only reveals the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices; it also takes apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. Marshaling an astounding array of economic, environmental, and historical facts, Maxwell and Miller debunk the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Canada's Waste Flows

    by Myra J. Hird ...
    From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue – and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory.Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The High Cost of Low Prices

    A Roadmap to Sustainable Prosperity

    by David Steven Jacoby ...
    This book directly addresses controversial issues like climate change, carbon taxes, fracking, offshoring, urban sprawl, globalization, income inequality, regulation, corruption, compliance and enforcement, providing an informed basis for mapping the way forward.Based on his experience consulting on hundreds of industrial mega-projects, Jacoby reveals dark secrets of international supply chains ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

    by Isaac Leslie, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Loka L. Ashwood, Laura Hanson Schlachter ...
    If there were ever a time for environmental sociology, it is now. As COVID-19 is spreading across our communities, our countries, our world, we have all become too familiar with maintaining that awful term of "social distance." Yet there can be no true distance from that which is always with us and within us: our social ecologyAn Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites students to delve into ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Enterprising Nature

    Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics

    by Jessica Dempsey ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Winner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecologi... ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa

    Social and Cultural Dimensions

    Edited by Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Geography
    This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed.Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about ... Read more

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