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  • The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making

    Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law

    by Susan Buck, Robert Paehlke, Joel J. Kassiola ...
    In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China’s Environmental Crisis

    Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses

    Edited by J. Kassiola ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

    by Joel J. Kassiola, Qian Guo, Shiyuan Hao, Barbara A. Holzman, Xiao Hang Liu, Gary W. Pahl, Yin Peng, Guoqing Shi0, Fang Sumei1, Guan Yi2, Li Yujun3, Qiu Zhong4, Jian Zhou5, Sheldon Gen6 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity resources as a result of growing interaction between human activities and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

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  • A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

    The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

    by Stephen M. Gardiner ...
    Series series ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND SCIENCE POLICY SERIES
    Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or "storms ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Class Matrix

    Social Theory after the Cultural Turn

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture—that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around us rather than the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change

    Human Virtues of the Future

    Edited by Allen Thompson, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer ...
    An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The No-Growth Imperative

    Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

    by Gabor Zovanyi ...
    More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Green Political Thought

    by Andrew Dobson ...
    This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published.Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ... Read more

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  • Environmental Ethics

    An Overview for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robin Attfield ...
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems. Attfield also ... Read more

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