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  • Structural Human Ecology

    New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability

    by Nadine Bratchatzek, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Hiller, Roger E. Kasperson, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Allan Mazur, Ortwin Renn, Dirk Scheer ...
    The desire to understand people’s influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities place on the environment, human well-being, and the tradeoffs between them. As an emerging discipline, Structural Human Ecology is devoted to unlocking the dynamic links between population, environment, social organization, and technology. The new field ... Read more

    $27.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decisions for Sustainability

    Facts and Values

    by Thomas Dietz ...
    Decisions by individuals, organisations, and nations shape the well-being of humans and other species, the environment, and sustainability. Decisions for Sustainability examines how we can make better decisions concerning our future. It incorporates sociological, psychological, and economic perspectives to highlight our strengths and weaknesses in decision-making, and suggest strategies to ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Foundations of Environmental Sustainability

    The Coevolution of Science and Policy

    Edited by Larry Rockwood, Ronald Stewart, Thomas Dietz ...
    This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental destruction taking place around the world and of the specter of climate change. The ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • Global Order Beyond Law

    How Information and Communication Technologies Facilitate Relational Contracting in International Trade

    by Dr Thomas Dietz ...
    Series series International Studies in the Theory of Private Law
    Well-functioning contract law is a crucial prerequisite for economic development. However, even though international trade has increased enormously in recent decades, we still know little about the contract enforcement mechanisms that exist in today's globalised markets. The aim of this work is to shed light on the governance of complex cross-border contracts by developing a comprehensive ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Mediated Modeling

    A System Dynamics Approach To Environmental Consensus Building

    by Marjan van den Belt ...
    Mediated modeling is an innovative new approach that enhances the use of computer models as invaluable tools to guide policy and management decisions. Rather than having outside experts dispensing answers to local stakeholders, mediated modeling brings together diverse interests to raise the shared level of understanding and foster a broad anddeep consensus. It provides a structured process based ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract

    Edited by A. Claire Cutler, Thomas Dietz ...
    Series series Politics of Transnational Law
    This edited volume provides critical reflections on the interplay between politics and law in an increasingly transnationalized global political economy. It focuses specifically on the emergence and operation of new forms of governance that are developing through a variety of transnational contractual practices, institutions, and laws in multiple sectors and areas of economic activity ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

    Navigating an Uncertain Future

    Edited by Thomas Dietz, David Bidwell ...
    People living in the Great Lakes region are already feeling the effects of a changing climate. Shifts in seasonal temperatures and precipitation patterns could have dramatic impacts on the economy, ecology, and quality of life. In this illuminating and thorough volume, leading scholars address the challenge of preparing for climate change in the region, where decision makers from various sectors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Do Babies Matter?

    Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

    by Mary Ann Mason, Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Marc Goulden ...
    Series series Families in Focus
    The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living in dual-income households. This generation also has new expectations and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Is American Science in Decline?

    by Yu Xie, Alexandra A. Killewald ...
    Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more and better-trained scientists to compete with the rest of the world. Their critics counter that, far from facing a shortage, we are producing a glut of young scientists with poor employment prospects. Both camps have issued reports in recent years that predict the looming decline of American science. Drawing on their extensive analysis of ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Ethics of Climate Governance

    Edited by Aaron Maltais, Catriona McKinnon ...
    The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected. This book explores the ethical dimensions of bringing the threat of global warming under effective political control. It addresses problems of domination and vulnerability in international climate negotiations, democratic legitimacy and equity in climate ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Defining the Urban

    Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives

    Edited by Alexandros Gasparatos, Deljana Iossifova, Christopher N.H Doll ...
    What is "urban"? How can it be described and contextualised? How is it used in theory and practice?Urban processes feature in key international policy and practice discourses. They are at the core of research agendas across traditional academic disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary fields. However, the concept of "the urban" remains highly contested, both as material reality and imaginary ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD