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Health and Development
ISBN: 9780415085298 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. People are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Recession in the North and debt servicing in the South have reduced public expenditure on health and welfare. The links between regional, economic and environmental factors and the health of a population are becoming clearer. Does development mean a longer life of lower quality? Always alive to both the global and the local implications, the...
Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. Peop...
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279,12 |
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Sensuous Geographies : Body, Sense and Place
ISBN: 9780415088299 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sensuous Geographies is an exploratory study of our immediate sensuous experience of the world. Touch, smell, hearing and sight - the four senses chiefly relevant to geographical experience - both receive and structure information. Historical, cultural and technological contexts influence this process. Basic issues of definition are illustrated through a variety of sensuous geographies. Focusing on postmodern concerns with representation, the book challenges us to reconsider the role of the sensuous as not merely the physical basis of understanding but as an integral part of the cultural...
Sensuous Geographies is an exploratory study of our immediate sensuous experience of the world. Touch, smell, hearing and sight - the four senses chie...
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Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour
ISBN: 9780415089227 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world.
He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit. One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of...
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225,25 |
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Maps of Meaning
ISBN: 9780415090889 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory. Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, race, language and ideology. Questioning the ways in which we invest the world with meaning, the book is an introduction to both culture's geographies and the geography of... This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past e... |
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215,45 |
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Place/Culture/Representation
ISBN: 9780415094511 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography.
The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial... Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representati...
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279,12 |
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Environmentalism : The View from Anthropology
ISBN: 9780415094757 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, environmental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies.
This book is located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, environmental law and policy, a...
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298,71 |
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Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice
ISBN: 9780415097192 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have no intention of radically changing their goals and methods to help create an environmentally sound or socially just global society. In order to confront this, the green movement must now develop coherent eco-socialist politics. People must control their own lives and their relationship with the environment.
Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind W...
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293,81 |
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Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity : Environment and Culture
ISBN: 9780415107556 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effects of human settlement and cultivation on the landscape are considered, as well as the representation of landscape in Attic drama. Various aspects of farming, such as the use of terraces and the significance of olive growing, are examined. The uncultivated landscape was also important - hunting was a key social ritual for Greek and Hellenistic elites, and wild places were not wastelands but played an essential economic role. The Romans'...
The contributors to this volume consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effe...
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Social Theory and the Global Environment
ISBN: 9780415111706 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact.
The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broader understanding of nature'. This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocen...
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Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
ISBN: 9780415115292 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues...
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the...
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Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
ISBN: 9780415115308 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of culture, once the property of anthropologists, has gained wide currency among social scientists. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues...
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the...
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352,59 |
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Industrial Location: Principles, Practice and Policy
ISBN: 9780415119511 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Location is vital to the efficiency and profitability of industrial activity. Industrial Location presents a comprehensive introduction to and critical review of this field of growing academic and business interest.
In business, the right choices have to be made to produce profit. Industrial location is a fixed investment, crucial to the strategy and capital investment of any organization. Location also impacts upon non-investors, directly affecting employment, the environment, and economic activity in the locale. Focusing chiefly on the United States, but drawing on an... Location is vital to the efficiency and profitability of industrial activity. Industrial Location presents a comprehensive introduction to an...
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146,88 |
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Ecology and Equity
ISBN: 9780415125239 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural... Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecolog... |
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710,17 |
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Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
ISBN: 9780415125246 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural... Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecolog... |
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411,36 |
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Geographic Information Systems: Socioeconomic Applications
ISBN: 9780415125710 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this text builds on the strengths of the first, taking into account recent advances in GIS development and major new socio-economic datasets including new census data. The author presents an accessible introduction to the history, principles and techniques of GIS, with a focus on socio-economic applications. This non-technical overview of the collection, input, storage, manipulation and output of data addresses the needs of students and professionals who must understand and use GIS for the first time.
The second edition of this text builds on the strengths of the first, taking into account recent advances in GIS development and major new socio-econo...
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930,57 |
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Geographic Information Systems: Socioeconomic Applications
ISBN: 9780415125727 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this text builds on the strengths of the first, taking into account recent advances in GIS development and major new socio-economic datasets including new census data. The author presents an accessible introduction to the history, principles and techniques of GIS, with a focus on socio-economic applications. This non-technical overview of the collection, input, storage, manipulation and output of data addresses the needs of students and professionals who must understand and use GIS for the first time.
The second edition of this text builds on the strengths of the first, taking into account recent advances in GIS development and major new socio-econo...
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274,23 |
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Islands in Time: Island Sociogeography and Mediterranean Prehistory
ISBN: 9780415126595 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation on the development of human communities.
Evidence is drawn from a broad range of Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia. Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterr...
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710,17 |
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Third World Political Ecology: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415127431 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues.
Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third World political ecology, and suggest areas for future development. Clarifying the essentially politicised condition of environmental change... An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues.
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Timescales and Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780415132534 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time is an unstated but ever present element in all debates about environmental change - and the subtext of many disagreements. Geomorphologists think in the context of millions of years, politicians in election terms, the media in decades, and the public ceases to worry about global warming with one bad summer. This volume brings together experts from a diverse range of disciplines, to offer a range of both temporal and geographical perspectives. It does not seek to provide clear answers about right time-scales, but rather to encourage the reader, from whatever perspective, to think about...
Time is an unstated but ever present element in all debates about environmental change - and the subtext of many disagreements. Geomorphologists think...
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The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
ISBN: 9780415135085 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However, tourism can also be considered a problematic phenomenon, promoting dependency, underdevelopment and adverse sociocultural effects, especially for developing countries. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of these complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. Various theoretical and empirical approaches are introduced and the following issues are... The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employ... |
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930,57 |
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