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  • Waste: The Basics

    de Myra J. Hird ...
    Series series The Basics
    Waste: The Basics answers the questions: why are we facing a global waste crisis, and how can we effectively solve it? The book identifies the most common types of waste, its major producers, how we manage waste locally, regionally and globally, and why this management is leading to more waste.Written in a highly accessible style, the book begins with our own everyday mundane experiences of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Consuming the Environment

    Edición de Myra J. Hird ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.Written in an accessible style, this book begins with our everyday mundane experiences of consuming products – online, in the grocery store, at the mall – and shows how these practices are connected to a global system dependent upon ever increasing ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Extracting Reconciliation

    Indigenous Lands, (In)human Wastes, and Colonial Reckoning

    de Myra J. Hird, Hillary Predko ...
    Series series More Than Human Humanities
    Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.Making use of two historical case studies concerned with the intersection of resource extraction, Crown/Inuit relations, and waste legacies in Nunavut, Canada, the authors illuminate the mechanisms of ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • A Public Sociology of Waste

    de Myra J. Hird ...
    Series series Public Sociology
    Is it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone?This provocative book critically analyses the widespread assumption that individuals and households have created our global waste crisis.Sociologist and waste expert Myra J. Hird reveals neoliberal capitalism’s fallacy of infinite growth as the real culprit, and demonstrates how industry and local governments ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Canada's Waste Flows

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.49 USD

  • Queering the Non/Human

    de Myra J. Hird ...
    What might it mean to queer the Human? By extension, how is the Human employed within queer theory? These questions invite a reconsideration of the way we think about queer theory, the category of the Human and the act of queering itself. This interdisciplinary volume of essays gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and ... Leer más

    Antes $82.99 USD Ahora $73.99 USD

  • Engendering Violence

    Heterosexual Interpersonal Violence from Childhood to Adulthood

    de Myra J. Hird ...
    Bringing together unique international research from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Europe, this book presents a detailed examination of the violence perpetrated by males and females within the context of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Based on illuminating empirical studies it accurately locates the societal implications of violence against males and females as ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

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  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    de Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Creating an Ecological Society

    Toward a Revolutionary Transformation

    de Fred Magdoff, Chris Williams ...
    Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. Capitalism’s imperative—to make profit at all costs and expand without end—is destabilizing Earth’s ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Greening the Media

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.09 USD

  • Organising Responses to Climate Change

    The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering

    de Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden ...
    Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Earth at Risk

    Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability

    de Claude Henry, Laurence Tubiana ...
    We are squandering our planet’s natural capital—its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability—at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD