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“steven h emerman”

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  • Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice

    by Steven H. Emerman, Marcia Bjørnerud, Jill S. Schneiderman, Sarah A. Levy ...
    Liberation Science is the practice of using the knowledge and methods of science to solve the social and environmental problems faced by the poor. Liberation Science can address these problems because it has been freed from the flawed scientific paradigms that are linked to the flawed social paradigms of nationalism and capitalism. Three themes of Liberation Science are: 1) The definition of an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Pollution Is Colonialism

    by Max Liboiron ...
    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

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  • The Skeptical Environmentalist

    Measuring the Real State of the World

    by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Biodiversity Change and Human Health

    From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease

    by Scope ...
    Series series SCOPE Series
    Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Creating an Ecological Society

    Toward a Revolutionary Transformation

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Biopiracy

    The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. As the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Planetary Health

    Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

    by Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin ...
    We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Planetary Health

    Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

    by Samuel Myers, Howard Frumkin ...
    Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Betrayal of Science and Reason

    How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future

    by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich ...
    Despite widespread public support for environmental protection, a backlash against environmental policies is developing. Fueled by outright distortions of fact and disregard for the methodology of science, this backlash appears as an outpouring of seemingly authoritative opinions by so-called experts in books, articles, and appearances on television and radio that greatly distort what is or is not ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Environmental Health

    From Global to Local

    Edited by Howard Frumkin ...
    Series series Public Health/Environmental Health
    The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topicsEnvironmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies. Edited by the former director of the CDC's National Center for ... Read more

    $104.00 USD

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Big Ecology

    The Emergence of Ecosystem Science

    by David C. Coleman ...
    In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem—a local biological community and its interactions with its environment—has given rise to many institutions and research programs, like the National Science Foundation’s program for Long ... Read more

    $76.49 USD