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Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction Paul Robbins, John Hintz, Sarah A. Moore
Publisher: Wiley

In Polanyi's view the inevitable result of this logic would be the despoliation of the environment and the destruction of society, hence the latter would seek to protect itself by what Polanyi termed the double movement. In his Nobel Lecture of the year 2007, Al Gore urges all of us: “We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency – a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and .. Since the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it is .. Feb 20, 2014 - In his introduction to Space Travel and Culture (2009), David Bell suggests that the neglect of 'outer space' in the humanities and social sciences is in part due to the negative stance towards the technological utopianism of the mid-twentieth-century 'space The critical neglect of 'outer space' has been remedied in part by Bell, Denis Cosgrove, Fraser MacDonald, whose work collectively offers the beginnings of a 'critical geography of outer space' (MacDonald 593). May 3, 2011 - Introducing Critical Pedagogy to Conceptualise the Topic of Sustainability in Executive Business Education'. Critical realism took its origin within the philosophy discipline, arising at the time that there was profound debate over the adequacy of logical positivism as a basis for the philosophy of science. Jan 14, 2014 - Introduction to environmental sciences and current environment issues. However, representations are critical to what we think about the environment and how we organize to create sustainable environment and society. In narrow economic terms, due to the urgent need to make them “commensurable” (Goldman 2004: 183), “bringing the environment and society into a balance sheet” (Alexander 2005: 456) and assuming that everything can be commoditized. Apr 15, 2014 - Historical sociologists on critical realism. Of Social Explanation are now available on Kindle and iBooks for iPad.