Environment and Society. Paul Robbins

https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037038 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037039

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Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Serious page

      3  Title page

      4  Copyright

      5  List of Figures

      6  List of Tables

      7  List of Boxes

      8  Acknowledgments

      9  About the Companion Website

      10 1 Introduction: The View from a Human-Made WildWhat is This Book?The Authors’ Points of View

      11 Part I Approaches and Perspectives2 Population and ScarcityA Booming China or a Busting One?The Problem of Exponential GrowthPopulation, Development, and Environment ImpactThe Other Side of the Coin: Population and InnovationLimits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause?Thinking with Population3 Markets and CommoditiesThe BetManaging Environmental Bads: The Coase TheoremMarket FailureMarket-Based Solutions to Environmental ProblemsBeyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and EconomyThinking with Markets4 Institutions and “The Commons”Controlling Carbon?The Prisoner’s DilemmaThe Tragedy of the CommonsThe Evidence and Logic of Collective ActionCrafting Sustainable Environmental InstitutionsAre All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter?Thinking with Institutions5 Environmental EthicsThe Price of Cheap MeatImproving Nature: From Biblical Tradition to John LockeGifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, CaliforniaAldo Leopold and “The Land Ethic”Liberation for Animals!CAFOs and Climate Change: Now that You Know, What Should You Do?Holism and Other PitfallsThinking with Ethics6 Risks and TechnologyThe Bt Cotton RevolutionEnvironments as HazardThe Problem of Risk PerceptionRisk as CultureBeyond Risk: The Political Economy of HazardsThinking with Risk and Technology7 Political EconomyThe Contradictions of COVID-19Labor, Accumulation, and CrisisProduction of NatureGlobal Capitalism and the Ecology of Uneven DevelopmentSocial Reproduction and NatureEnvironments and EconomismThinking with Political Economy8 Social Construction of NatureThe Blank Spot on the MapSo You Say It’s “Natural?”Environmental DiscourseThe Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, Thinking with Construction9 Feminism and the EnvironmentGender and EnvironmentFrom Earth as Woman to EcofeminismFeminist Approaches to Economies and NatureFeminist Approaches to Knowledge and the EnvironmentThinking with Feminism and the Environment10 Racialized EnvironmentsStructural Environmental RacismEnvironmental JusticeSettler ColonialismWhiteness and NatureThinking with Racialized Environments

      12 Part II Objects of Concern11 Carbon DioxideStuck in Pittsburgh TrafficA Short History of CO2Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Carbon CooperationMarkets: Trading More Gases, Buying Less CarbonPolitical Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere?The Carbon Puzzle12 TreesChained to a Tree in Berkeley, CaliforniaA Short History of TreesPopulation and Markets: The Forest Transition TheoryPolitical Economy: Accumulation and DeforestationGender, Trees, and Power: Feminist Insights into ForestsEthics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing?The Tree Puzzle13 WolvesWolves, Be Wary Where You TreadA Short History of WolvesEthics: Rewilding and WolvesInstitutions: Stakeholder ManagementFeminism: Of Wolves and MasculinityThe Wolf Puzzle14 UraniumPromise and Peril in Post-Nuclear WorldsA Short History of UraniumRisk and Hazards: Debating the Fate of High-Level Radioactive WasteRace: Environmental Justice and the Navajo NationSocial Construction: Discourses at Work in AustraliaThe Uranium Puzzle15 TunaBig Trouble for Big TunaA Short History of TunaMarkets and Commodities: Eco-Labels to the Rescue?Political Economy: Re-regulating Fishery EconomiesEthics: Saving Animals, Conserving SpeciesThe Tuna Puzzle16 LawnsHow Much Do People Love Lawns?A Short History of LawnsRisk and Chemical Decision-MakingSocial Construction: Good Lawns Mean Good PeoplePolitical Economy: The Chemical Tail Wags the Turfgrass DogThe Lawn Puzzle17 Bottled WaterA Tale of Two BottlesA Short History of Bottled WaterPopulation: Bottling for Scarcity?Risk and Technology: Health and Safety in a Bottle?Political Economy: Manufacturing Demand on an Enclosed CommonsRacialized Environments: The Burden of Bottled Water in the United StatesThe Bottled Water Puzzle18 French FriesGetting Your French Fry FixA Short History of the FryFeminist Approaches: The Body Politics of French FriesPolitical Economy and Racialized Environments: Have it Your Way?Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage?The French Fry Puzzle19 E-WasteDigital DividesA Short History of E-WasteE-Waste and Markets: From Externality to CommodityThe Political Economy of E-WasteE-Waste and Racialized EnvironmentsThe E-Waste Puzzle

      13  Glossary

      14  Index

      15  End User License Agreement

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 11.1 Sandhill cranes of the Platte River. A half million...1.2 Heck Cattle, introduced...

      2 Chapter 22.1 Hypothesized demographic trends in a Malthusian...2.2 World population since 1750. Rapid increases in...2.3 Global population growth rates....2.4 Population growth rates worldwide by country.2.5 The demographic transition model. In theory, falling death...2.6 National fertility and female literacy