A look at feminism and the environment offers a feminist analysis of the crisis, demonstrates how the implications and experiences of environmental decay are different for men and women and rich and poor, and criticizes environmental organizations.

Product Description: It is well known that the biochemical processes of life on Earth are maintained by the external solar radiation and can be reduced to the synthesis and decomposition of organic matter. Man has added the synthesis and decomposition of various in­ dustrial products to these natural processes...read more

Foundations of Education, Third Edition , analyzes tough issues teachers will face upon entering their field, including professionalism, school reform, cultural diversity, inclusion, and technology. Through new and greatly revised chapters and new pedagogical features, this edition helps pre-service teachers analyze issues and determine how they will address them in their professional practice. The book constitutes a lively, provocative text that students will enjoy reading, gives a fresh look at traditional topics in educational foundations, and enhances its technological and global perspectives for the 21st century. Addressing all the foundational areas of education, including history, philosophy, sociology, school governance, finance, and school law, the book also offers introductions to the areas of curriculum, theory, and methods, and to teaching as a career.

Product Description: The essays in this book are papers presented to the second conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Environment and Society (IRNES) held in Sheffield in September 1993. It follows "Perspectives on the Environment" (ed...read more

Product Description: Annotated with introductions and explanations of key environmental concepts, problems and prospects, this is a collection of pieces on the theme of global environmental politics from a diversity of viewpoints. The contributors highlight important political developments as well as environmental challenges within a rapidly changing international system...read more

Contains definitions of over 50,000 words and phrases, cross-word puzzles, word games, and grammar guides.

Product Description: Volume two considers major environmental issues using individual case studies from around the world as illustrations. These case studies explore the causes of international environmental issues and investigate the conflicts that hamper these solutions...read more

Product Description: The three volumes of Environmental Policy in an International Context have been developed by the Dutch and UK Open Universities as part of the International Environmental Series. They accompany a workbook and six videos. The first volume takes a critical and analytical look at contemporary environmental issues built around the key questions - what are international and environmental problems; and why have they become important politically? These questions are examined from a variety of viewpoints - science, sociology, politics, law and economics...read more

Product Description: This book takes a critical and analytical look at contemporary environmental issues built around some key questions. In particular the book questions why international environmental problems have become so important politically. Questions are examined from a variety of viewpoints--scientific, sociological, political, legal and economic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book considers major environmental issues using individual case studies from around the world as illustrations. Problems such as intensive farming, overpopulation, deforestation, climate change and waste disposal are placed in their social and political context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International Environmental Studies Series The three volumes of Environmental Policy in an International Context have been developed by the Dutch and British Open Universities. In this, the third volume, the authors investigate the opportunities for change in environmental policy-making at a global level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Environmentalism is one of the major issues of our time. A key question is how responsive are Australian institutions to the challenges posed by environmental issues? This book focuses on how effectively political institutions and organisations are able to address concerns about the deterioration of the environment. The book considers the key players in environmental debate and policy-making: social movements, interest groups, political parties, the media, the parliaments and the bureaucracy. It contains much rich empirical material. This stimulating and original book makes an important contribution not only to environmental politics, but to the ways in which institutions can become more effective and responsive to social forces. It will be of interest not only to political scientists and sociologists, but to environmental activists and policy-makers themselves. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The revised and updated second edition of this cutting-edge collection brings together readings both classic and new on the theme of global environmental politics from a diversity of viewpoints and values orientations. In selections chosen for their authority and edited to preserve their integrity, Green Planet Blues speaks with many voices—from Garrett Hardin and Herman Daly to Tanvai Nagpal, Chico Mendes, and Gita Sen, and from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme to indigenous peoples of the Amazon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An overview and analysis of the emerging international regime to protect the global environment in the 21st century, this volume assesses the related developments in international law, institutions and policies.