Environment And Global Modernity
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Environment And Global Modernity
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Author : Gert Spaargaren
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Release Date : 2000-07-27
Environment And Global Modernity written by Gert Spaargaren and has been published by SAGE Publications Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-27 with Social Science categories.
This accomplished book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute a major prop to the process of globalization? The book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.
The Anthropocene And The Global Environmental Crisis
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
The Anthropocene And The Global Environmental Crisis written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Business & Economics categories.
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the ‘Age of Humans’. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social science. If in the Anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the ‘social-only’ understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of ‘Holocene thinking’. The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and what it means for the ‘politics of unsustainability’.
Global Modernity
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Author : V. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-07
Global Modernity written by V. Schmidt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-07 with Philosophy categories.
This book introduces the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional scheme that aims to identify modernity's key structural components.
Risk Environment And Modernity
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Author : Scott Lash
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1996-01-31
Risk Environment And Modernity written by Scott Lash and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in `risk societies′.
Environmental Sociology
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Author : Thomas Jerome Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-15
Environmental Sociology written by Thomas Jerome Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with Environmental sociology categories.
Timescapes Of Modernity
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Author : Barbara Adam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-18
Timescapes Of Modernity written by Barbara Adam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-18 with Science categories.
Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed of transport and communication; the 24 hour society and even democratic politics are among the invisible hazards we face. With this unique 'timescape' perspective the author dislodges assumptions about environmental change, enables a rethinking of environmental problems and provides the potential for new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.
The Vortex
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Author : Frank Uekotter
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2024-04-18
The Vortex written by Frank Uekotter and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-18 with Science categories.
Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uekötter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uekötter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools—technological and otherwise—and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.
Arctic Environmental Modernities
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Author : Lill-Ann Körber
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-12
Arctic Environmental Modernities written by Lill-Ann Körber and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-12 with Science categories.
This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are projected and imagined. Investigating the Arctic region as a privileged site of modernity, this book articulates the globally significant, but often overlooked, junctures between environmentalism and sustainability, indigenous epistemologies and scientific rhetoric, and decolonization strategies and governmentality. With international expertise made easily accessible, readers can observe and understand the rise and conflicted status of Arctic modernities, from the nineteenth century polar explorer era to the present day of anthropogenic climate change.
Environment Modernization And Development In East Asia
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Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Environment Modernization And Development In East Asia written by Ts'ui-jung Liu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with History categories.
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
The Origins Of The Modern World
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Author : Robert B. Marks
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-05
The Origins Of The Modern World written by Robert B. Marks and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with History categories.
Now in a new edition, this clearly written and engrossing book presents a global and environmental narrative of the origins of the modern world since 1400. Robert Marks constructs a story in which Asia, Africa, and the New World play major roles and points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment.