Environment and society : an introductory analysis
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Environment and society : an introductory analysis
MIT press, 1977
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 158-159
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This short introductory and interdisciplinary text analyzes the wide range of issues that have come to be known collectively as "the environment question" and have now entered the mainstream of public affairs.Without assuming any previous knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology, the first three chapters introduce the topics of ecology, population, resources, and pollution. Chapter 4 summarizes "the environment debate." Here the authors review the major positions different participants in the debate have taken on the causes of environmental problems and on strategies for dealing with them.The two following chapters examine environmental problems from the viewpoint of social science. The authors focus on the political economic processes by which decisions affecting the environment are made and analyze the main strands of thought in current environmental policy-making: the use of taxes, subsidies, cost-benefit analyses and legislation.The concluding chapter concentrates on the longer term. Do the responses to environmental problems point to the evolution of a "post-industrial" society? Can examination of the forces that seem to have shaped previous cultural change give insights into the likely development of present systems? Can an "alternative society" be envisaged which is not based on economic growth and high technology? Contemporary thinking about these issues is surveyed, and questions are posed about the constitution of future society.
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