Human footprints on the global environment : threats to sustainability / edited by Eugene A. Rosa ... [et al.].
Rosa, Eugene A.
2010
GE170 .H84 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Human footprints on the global environment : threats to sustainability / edited by Eugene A. Rosa ... [et al.].
ISBN 9780262512992 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262512998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780262013154 (alk. paper)
0262013150 (alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xi, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number GE170 .H84 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.7/0526
Summary "The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change, describing how global threats to sustainability have come about, providing an interpretive framework for understanding environmental change, reviewing recent work in the social and ecological sciences, and discussing which paths for future advances in our knowledge may prove most promising.
The chapters, by prominent North American and European authors, offer perspectives on population, consumption, land cover and use, institutional actions, and culture. They discuss such topics as risk, the new Structural Human Ecology approach to analyzing anthropogenic drivers of global environmental change, recent progress in understanding land use change, international environmental regimes, the concept of the commons, and the comparative vulnerability of societies around the world"--Pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Rosa, Eugene A.
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Global transformations : PaSSAGE to a new ecological era / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz
World risk society as cosmopolitan society : ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties / Ulrich Beck
Human driving forces of global change : dominant perspectives / Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York
Progress in the study of land use/cover change and the outlook for the next decade / Emilio F. Moran
The effectiveness of international environmental regimes / Oran R. Young
Uncommon ground : critical perspectives on common property / Bonnie J. McCay and Svein Jentoft
Vulnerability of coupled human-ecological systems to global environmental change / Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B.L. Turner II
Human dimensions of coupled human-natural systems : a look backward and forward / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz.

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