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  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being

    Edited by Merja Elo, Jonne Hytönen, Sanna Karkulehto, Teea Kortetmäki, Janne S. Kotiaho, Mikael Puurtinen, Miikka Salo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as a new cross-disciplinary concept to foster global transformation towards a more equal and inclusive framing of well-being.Throughout this edited ... Read more

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    Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

    by Jem Bendell, Rupert Read ...
    ‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how ... Read more

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  • It's Not Just You

    by Tori Tsui ...
    **‘The world is in desperate need of this book’ - Greta Thunberg'It's Not Just You is a galvanising breath of fresh air' - Mikaela Loach'Tori Tsui is changing the conversation around mental health and the climate crisis' - Vogue‘A must-read for anyone who would love to understand the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis’ - Vanessa Nakate------------------------It’s not just you.* ... Read more

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  • Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

    Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes

    by Jeff Sebo ...
    In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to ... Read more

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  • The Probiotic Planet

    Using Life to Manage Life

    by Jamie Lorimer ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planetMost of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In fact, the term refers to any intervention in which life is used to manage life—from the microscopic, like consuming fermented food to improve gut health, to macro approaches such as biological pest control and ... Read more

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  • Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene

    An Emerging Paradigm

    Edited by Peter Timmerman, Peter Brown ...
    Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences. The emerging paradigm for ecological economics championed in this new book recenters the field ... Read more

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  • An archaeology of innovation

    Approaching social and technological change in human society

    by Catherine J. Frieman ...
    Series series Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
    An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, ... Read more

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  • Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment

    Edited by David M. Kaplan ...
    Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent paths despite their common interest in examining human modification of the natural world. Yet philosophers from each field have a lot to contribute to the other. Environmental issues inevitably involve ... Read more

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  • Animals as Biotechnology

    Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies

    by Richard Twine ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and profitability of meat and dairy production; and ... Read more

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  • Framing in Sustainability Science

    Theoretical and Practical Approaches

    Edited by Takashi Mino, Shogo Kudo ...
    Series series Science for Sustainable Societies
    This open access book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines “framing” in the context of sustainability science as the process of identifying subjects, setting boundaries, and defining problems. The chapters are grouped into two sections: a conceptual section and a case section. The conceptual section introduces readers to theories ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (OPEN ACCESS)

    Trade-offs and Governance

    Edited by Kate Schreckenberg, Georgina Mace, Mahesh Poudyal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, which has funded over 120 ... Read more

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  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis ...
    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

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