You Cant Eat Gnp

Author : Eric Davidson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780738204871
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Eat GNP written by Eric Davidson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In clear, measured prose Davidson lays out how the traditional tools of economics don't work when you are talking about concrete things like soil, forests, garbage."-Inc.Ecology and economics are not doomed to be adversaries. This lively and concise book presents the exciting new insights of environmental economics as well as the three fallacies of conventional economic analysis. You Can't Eat GNP offers a blueprint for a truly sustainable economy that recognizes the natural resources (like water, air, and soil) on which we ultimately depend.Eric A. Davidson, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. His fieldwork takes him from the Brazilian Amazon to the re-growing forests of New England and he has conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the NASA Ames Research Center.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

Author : Eric A. Davidson
Publisher : Perseus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Eat Gnp written by Eric A. Davidson and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 2000-04-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at the ecological foundations of prosperity.

Author : Steve Ratzlaff
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462819416
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7 Steps to End War & Save the Planet written by Steve Ratzlaff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pacifists timely and passionate manifesto addressing the issue of global warming. Utopia, as Ratzlaff explains, is not some unattainable oasis but rather a world without war and with a balanced global habitat that can sustain future generations. [R]ank and file Americans need to be able to comprehend what global warming is all about, the author writes, in order to grasp what will happen if we fail to take immediate steps to combat it. The book is not a scientific treatise bogged down with academic language, but rather a pacifists simple approach to solving one of the worlds most difficult dilemmas. Employing a minimum of hard data to explore melting ice caps, rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and ocean currents, Ratzlaff effectively illustrates the cause-and-effect relationship between human activity and the planets well-being. While Al Gore answered the hows and whys of global warming in An Inconvenient Truth, Ratzlaff illustrates the imminent need for vast governmental and political changes, and he explains the consequences of ignoring the obvious threat to our planet. The author states that one of the biggest problems with the currentapproach to global warming is the tendency of advocates to ignore the significant role of population growth. Additionally, at the roots of global warming lay nationalism, religious wars and the military-industrial complexRatzlaff outright blames governments and corporations for the current situation. After demonstrating the various successes of the United Nations in heading off global conflicts, the author concludes that the UN is the only organization capable of becoming a fully empowered international governing body. Yet handcuffed by its current structure, it can do nothing more than cast environmental resolutions that are often ignored. Unlike other books that attempt to tackle major global issues, rather than pointing out the problems and offering no solutions, Ratzlaff rounds out each of the seven steps with definitive alternatives in his If I Were President summaries. A thorough yet easy-to-comprehend take on global warming. KIRKUS REVIEWS

Author : Gary Bryner
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810850737
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book written by Gary Bryner and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim of producing an inclusive, wide-ranging, and global history of environmentalism. This is done through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Author : Parth Shah
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171884261
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terracotta Reader written by Parth Shah and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Anthology Of Readings On The Environment Compiled Bu Ccs Comes Amidst The Cacophany Of Gloom And Doom And Shrill Cries For Greater Control By The State. The Study Calls For A More Reasoned Approach, One That Is Informed By A Liberal Perspective Limit, The Role Of The State And Enhance The Space For Civil Society And Markets.

Author : George Cheney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195182774
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just a Job? written by George Cheney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of 'professionalism' has gained everyday resonance in the 21st century, especially given recent corporate scandals. However, George Cheney argues, as much as it may be discussed professionalism has lost much of its broader social and community-related implications.

Author : Steve Vanderheiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199733120
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atmospheric Justice written by Steve Vanderheiden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Vanderheiden points toward ways to achieve environmental justice by exploring how climate change raises issues of both international and intergenerational justice. In addition, he considers how the design of a global climate regime might take these aims into account.

Author : Eric T. Freyfogle
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133294
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground written by Eric T. Freyfogle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven’t done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they have failed to offer an understandable, compelling vision of healthy lands and healthy human communities. Freyfogle explores why the conservation movement has responded ineffectually to the many cultural and economic criticisms leveled against it. He addresses the meaning of good land use, describes the many shortcomings of “sustainability,” and outlines six key tasks that the cause must address. Among these is the crafting of an overall goal and a vision of responsible private ownership. The book concludes with a stirring message that situates conservation within America’s story of itself and with an extensive annotated bibliography of conservation’s most valuable voices and texts—important information for readers prepared to take conservation more seriously.

Author : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118877470
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Nature written by Emilio F. Moran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studies Addresses new issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the rise of the slow food and farm-to-table movements, and consumer-driven shifts in sustainability Explains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important research, at a level appropriate for readers coming to the topic for the first time Discusses the challenges in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to the environment Offers a powerful, hopeful future vision for improved relations between humans and nature that embraces the idea of community needs rather than consumption wants, and the importance of building trust as a foundation for a sustainable future

Author : Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171885558
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment written by Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: