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Resilience and the behavior of large scale systems
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ISBN: 1559639709 9781559639712 9781559639705 1559639717 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,


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The problem of crime
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ISBN: 9780761950059 0761950052 Year: 1996 Publisher: Milton Keynes : The Open University,

Eco-socialism or eco-capitalism? : a critical analysis of humanity's fundamental choices
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ISBN: 1856496007 185649599X Year: 1999 Publisher: New York London Zed Books


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The uses of space in early modern history
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ISBN: 9781137490032 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"The study of space and place is unquestionably becoming an important research focus in the humanities and social sciences. And while there is an expanding body of theoretical work on the importance of these concepts in various disciplines, less attention has been paid to how spatial ideas and approaches can actually be deployed to understand the societies, cultures, and mentalities of the past. In this volume, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history, and how spaces and spatial ideas were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods. Together, the contributors represent a comprehensive range of disciplines concerned with space and history, including archaeology, social history, intellectual history, imperial history, geography, and cartography, allowing for an unusually broad variety of case studies and perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Lords and communities in early medieval East Anglia
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ISBN: 9781843831556 1843831554 9781846154102 Year: 2023 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk The Boydell Press


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Urbanizing nature : actors and agency (dis)connecting cities and nature since 1500
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ISBN: 9780367110864 9780429024726 9780367662509 0367110865 042902472X 0367662507 042965622X 0429658664 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Routledge

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What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natural disaster". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature" as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Conservation and the consumer : understanding environmental concern
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ISBN: 0415080967 9780415080965 Year: 1994 Volume: *1 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Conservation des ressources naturelles --- Conservation du patrimoine naturel --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation of resources --- Développement économique --- Ecologie [Sociale ] --- Ecologie sociale --- Ecology [Social ] --- Economic development --- Economic growth --- Economische ontwikkeling --- Environment [Human ] --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management (Government policy) --- Environmental policy --- Environnement [Politique de l'] --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Instandhouding van de natuurlijke hulpbronnen --- Milieubeleid --- Natural resources -- Conservation --- Natural resources conservation --- Nature--Conservation des ressources --- Natuurlijke hulpbronnen--Instandhouding --- Politique de l'environnement --- Resources conservation [Natural ] --- Ressources naturelles--Conservation --- Social ecology --- Sociale ecologie --- State and environment --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Consumer behavior --- Economic development. --- Social ecology. --- consumentengedrag --- milieuproblematiek --- 614.7 --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Development, Economic --- Growth, Economic --- Natural resources --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Hygiene of air, water, soil. Pollution and its control --- Conservation --- Government policy --- Social sciences --- Environmental auditing --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse


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Vibrant matter : a political ecology of things
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ISBN: 9780822346333 9780822346197 Year: 2010 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events.Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.

The ecology of language evolution
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ISBN: 0521794757 0521791383 0511019343 0511046782 0511154577 0511328451 0511174616 0511612869 1280429992 1107121507 9780511019340 9780511154577 9780511046780 9780521791380 9780511612862 9786610429998 6610429995 9780521794756 9781107121508 9780511328459 9780511174612 9781280429996 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a language. The book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. Drawing on major theories of language formation, macroecology and population genetics, Mufwene proposes a common approach to the development of creoles and other new languages. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

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