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Environmental Responses
Andrew Blowers
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Description for Environmental Responses
Paperback. Environmental understandings and actions are complex. Environmental responses include both our responses to environmental change and responses of environments induced by human actions, and cover technical measures and tools of evaluation, environmental policy and regulation, and environmental politics. Editor(s): Blowers, Andrew; Hinchliffe, Steve. Series: Ou-Wiley Environment. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations (some col.), col. maps. BIC Classification: RNC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 860.
Climate change, urban congestion, nuclear waste, deforestation, destruction of wildlife - how can we respond to these and the many other environmental problems that the world faces today? Can we trust the experts? Does technology have the answers? Should we look to governments or to markets to solve the problems? Are political solutions possible? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the environmental futures? To address these questions we need to look at environmental responses in an integrated way. This includes understanding the responses of environments to change, and the responses to those changes made by societies. Environmental Responses takes ... Read more
Climate change, urban congestion, nuclear waste, deforestation, destruction of wildlife - how can we respond to these and the many other environmental problems that the world faces today? Can we trust the experts? Does technology have the answers? Should we look to governments or to markets to solve the problems? Are political solutions possible? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the environmental futures? To address these questions we need to look at environmental responses in an integrated way. This includes understanding the responses of environments to change, and the responses to those changes made by societies. Environmental Responses takes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Ou-Wiley Environment
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470850053
SKU
V9780470850053
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Blowers
Andrew Blowers OBE is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University. Over a long career he has been involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as an academic, politician, government adviser, nuclear company director and prominent environmental activist. As a member of the first Committee on Radioactive Waste Management he was directly responsible for some ... Read more
Reviews for Environmental Responses
"...very inviting and user friendly...primarily for Open University students...highly attractive to a far wider readership..." (RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Jnl, 1 March 2004) “…an informative, richly illustrated and accessible reader, which develops a number of environmental themes…” (Geography, 2004)