Ecological Futures - What History Can Teach Us

Informationen zum Autor Sing C. Chew is a research scientist with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, and professor of sociology at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. Klappentext Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic, political, and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world. Zusammenfassung Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic! political! and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: System Demise Chapter 3 Chapter 1. The Conditions: Climate and Diseases Chapter 4 Chapter 2. The Reactions: Alternate Life-Practices Chapter 5 Chapter3. The Transitions Chapter 6 Chapter 4. The Transformations Chapter 7 Chapter 5. The Futures

Product details

• Authors: Sing C. Chew
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2008
• EAN: 9780759104532
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-0453-2
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Trilogy on World Ecological De
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)