Author: Anders Hansen
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environment, society, texts, introductions, routledge, media, communication
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-04-08
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415425751
ISBN-13: 9780415425759

Communication about �the environment� in and through a broad array of news, advertising, art and entertainment media is one of the major sources of public and political understanding of definitions, issues and problems associated with the environment. Environment, Media and Communication examines the social, cultural and political roles of the media as a public arena for images, representations, definitions and controversy regarding the environment. The book starts by discussing and outlining a framework for analyzing media and communication roles in the emergence of the environment and env

Authors:Emily Brady, with Jane Howarth, Vernon Pratt,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environment, texts, society, routledge, philosophy, introductions
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-12-12
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0415145112
ISBN-13: 9780415145114

Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include:* the ideas of science and objectivity* the conventional placement of the human being within the environment* the individualism of convential Modern thoughtWritten in an accessible way for those without a background in philosophy, this text examines ways of thinking about ourselves, nature and our relationship with nature. It offers an introduction to the phenomenological perspective on environm

Author: S.A. Harri
Publisher: Routledge,
Keywords: environment, series, management, natural, permafrost, problems
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1986-02-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 070993713X
ISBN-13: 9780709937135

Author: Andrew Holde
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environment, introductions, tourism, routledge
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-01-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415399556
ISBN-13: 9780415399555

This second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies new material has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change and natural disasters and the other on the relationship between tourism and poverty. These themes have direct relevance, not only to tourism, but are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a thesis that contextua

Author: Andrew Holden
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environment, introductions, tourism, routledge
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-01-31
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415399548
ISBN-13: 9780415399548

This second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies new material has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change and natural disasters and the other on the relationship between tourism and poverty. These themes have direct relevance, not only to tourism, but are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a thesis that contextua

Author: K.R. Gupta (Editor)
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.
Keywords: environment, vol, encyclopaedia, policies, problems
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-07-05
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 8126904402
ISBN-13: 9788126904402

Encyclopaedia of Environment has a wide coverage and comprehensively studies the global environmental change and environmental degradation mainly caused by human interference -- air pollution and ozone depletion, greenhouse effects, climatic change, land degradation, deforestation, desertification, loss of biodiversity, surface and groundwater contamination, hazardous wastes and agricultural pollution, and several other problems related to environment that are of primary concern. It is highly likely that environmental degradation would reduce the capacity of human societies to maintain their

Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme
Keywords: environment, world, state
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 1992-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 928071287X
ISBN-13: 9789280712872