Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781108429375
ISBN-13 : 1108429378
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene by : Alfred Hornborg

Download or read book Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene written by Alfred Hornborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 1108454194
ISBN-13 : 9781108454193
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene by : Alf Hornborg

Download or read book Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene written by Alf Hornborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to mention planet Earth itself. Hornborg demonstrates how market prices obscure asymmetric exchanges of resources - human labor, land, energy, materials - under a veil of fictive reciprocity. Such unequal exchange, he claims, underpins the phenomenon of technological development, which is, fundamentally, a redistribution of time and space - human labor and land - in world society. Hornborg deftly illustrates how money and technology have shaped our thinking and our social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. He also offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability.

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9781793607614
ISBN-13 : 1793607613
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene by : Elizabeth G. Dobbins

Download or read book Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene written by Elizabeth G. Dobbins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human intervention implies a new understanding of the human context that influences the physical and biological sciences. Human existence continues to be affected by the physical and biological reality from which it evolved but, in turn, it affects that reality as well. This work addresses this paradox by bringing together the contributions of researchers from very different disciplines in conversation about the complex relationships between the physical/biological world and the human world to offer different perspectives and solutions in establishing social and environmental justice in the age of the Anthropocene.

Anthropocene Or Capitalocene?

Anthropocene Or Capitalocene?
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Publisher : Kairos
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1629631485
ISBN-13 : 9781629631486
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? by : Jason W. Moore

Download or read book Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? written by Jason W. Moore and published by Kairos. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth has reached a tipping point and we are entering an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions. The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the 21st century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital.

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781108582698
ISBN-13 : 1108582699
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene by : Alf Hornborg

Download or read book Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene written by Alf Hornborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to mention planet Earth itself. Hornborg demonstrates how market prices obscure asymmetric exchanges of resources - human labor, land, energy, materials - under a veil of fictive reciprocity. Such unequal exchange, he claims, underpins the phenomenon of technological development, which is, fundamentally, a redistribution of time and space - human labor and land - in world society. Hornborg deftly illustrates how money and technology have shaped our thinking and our social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. He also offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability.

Environment and Society

Environment and Society
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9783319764153
ISBN-13 : 3319764152
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Environment and Society by : Magnus Boström

Download or read book Environment and Society written by Magnus Boström and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience, environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do they take into account society-environment relations? What social, cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What actions or practices do the concepts inspire? The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts of environment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society—in academia, policy and practice—not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism.

The Value of Ecocriticism

The Value of Ecocriticism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781107095298
ISBN-13 : 1107095298
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Book Synopsis The Value of Ecocriticism by : Timothy Clark

Download or read book The Value of Ecocriticism written by Timothy Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental threat.