Bibliograph

Human footprints on the global environment, threats to sustainability, edited by Eugene A. Rosa ... [et al.]

Type

Label

Human footprints on the global environment, threats to sustainability, edited by Eugene A. Rosa ... [et al.]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Human footprints on the global environment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

291193728

Responsibility statement

edited by Eugene A. Rosa ... [et al.]

Sub title

threats to sustainability

Summary

"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change, describing how global threats to sustainability have come about, providing an interpretive framework for understanding environmental change, reviewing recent work in the social and ecological sciences, and discussing which paths for future advances in our knowledge may prove most promisingThe chapters, by prominent North American and European authors, offer perspectives on population, consumption, land cover and use, institutional actions, and culture. They discuss such topics as risk, the new Structural Human Ecology approach to analyzing anthropogenic drivers of global environmental change, recent progress in understanding land use change, international environmental regimes, the concept of the commons, and the comparative vulnerability of societies around the world."--pub. desc

Table Of Contents

Global transformations: paSSAGE to a new ecological era / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz -- World risk society as cosmopolitan society: ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties / Ulrich Beck -- Human driving forces of global change: dominant perspectives / Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York -- Progress in the study of land use/cover change and the outlook for the next decade / Emilio F. Moran -- The effectiveness of international environmental regimes / Oran R. Young -- Uncommon ground: critical perspectives on common property / Bonnie J. McCay and Svein Jentoft -- Vulnerability of coupled human-natural systems: a look backward and forward / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz

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