Hintz, John
Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction
Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.
- Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste,mosquitoesand uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on environmental solutions
- Discusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to objects like bottled water, tuna, and trees
- Accessible for students, and accompanied by in-book and online resources including exercises and boxed discussions, an online test bank, notes, suggested reading, and website links for enhanced understanding
- Offers additional online support for instructors, including suggested teaching models, PowerPoint slides for each chapter with full-color graphics, and supplementary images and teaching material
Keywords: Environmental science; climate change; political ecology; biodiversity; environmental geography; environmental ethics; e-waste; environmental hazards; environmental sociology, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Science, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Science
- Author(s)
- Hintz, John
- Moore, Sarah A.
- Robbins, Paul
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Series
- Critical Introductions to Geography
- Page amount
- 352 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118451557
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118451564