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Third edition

Hoboken : Wiley Blackwell, 2022

xiv, 380 stran : ilustrace (převážně barevné), mapy ; 26 cm

ISBN 978-1-119-40823-9 (brožováno)

Critical introductions to geography

001659678

Contents // List of Figures x // List of Tables xv // List of Boxes xvi // Acknowledgments xvii // About the Companion Website xviii // 1 Introduction: The View from a Human-Made Wild // What is This Book? // The Authors Points of View // Part 1 Approaches and Perspectives 13 // 2 Population and Scarcity 15 // A Booming China or a Busting One? 16 // The Problem of Exponential Growth 17 // Population, Development, and Environment Impact 19 // The Other Side of the Coin: Population and Innovation 23 // Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause? 24 // Thinking with Population 29 // Markets and Commodities // The Bet // 34 // Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem 37 // Market Failure 39 // Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems 40 // Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy 45 // Thinking with Markets 48 // vi Contents // 4 Institutions and "The Commons” 51 // Controlling Carbon? 52 // The Prisoners Dilemma 52 // The Tragedy of the Commons 54 // The Evidence and Logic of Collective Action 56 // Crafting Sustainable Environmental Institutions 58 // Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter? 62 // Thinking with Institutions 64 // 5 Environmental Ethics 67 // The Price of Cheap Meat 68 // Improving Nature: From Biblical Tradition to John Locke 70 // Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, California 72 // Aldo Leopold and "The Land Ethic” 74 // Liberation for Animals! 76 // CAFOs and Climate Change: Now that You Know, What Should

You Do? 78 // Holism and Other Pitfalls 78 // Thinking with Ethics 80 // 6 Risks and Technology 83 // The Bt Cotton Revolution 84 // Environments as Hazard 85 // The Problem of Risk Perception 87 // Risk as Culture 90 // Beyond Risk: The Political Economy of Hazards 92 // Thinking with Risk and Technology 95 // 7 Political Economy 99 // The Contradictions of COVID-19 100 // Labor, Accumulation, and Crisis • 101 // Production of Nature 108 // Global Capitalism and the Ecology of Uneven Development 110 // Social Reproduction and Nature 112 // Environments and Economism 114 // Thinking with Political Economy 114 // 8 Social Construction of Nature 118 // The Blank Spot on the Map 119 // So You Say Its "Natural?” 120 // Environmental Discourse 124 // The Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, // and the Very Material World 129 // Thinking with Construction 132 // Contents vii // 9 Feminism and the Environment 136 // Gender and Environment 138 // From Earth as Woman to Ecofeminism 140 // Feminist Approaches to Economies and Nature 142 // Feminist Approaches to Knowledge and the Environment 146 // Thinking with Feminism and the Environment 152 // 10 Racialized Environments 156 // Structural Environmental Racism 158 // Environmental Justice 159 // Settler Colonialism 163 // Whiteness and Nature 169 // Thinking with Racialized Environments 170 // I // Part II Objects of Concern . 175 // 11 Carbon Dioxide 177 // Stuck in Pittsburgh Traffic 178 // A Short History of CO,

178 // Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Carbon Cooperation 184 // Markets: Trading More Gases, Buying Less Carbon 190 // Political Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere? 193 // The Carbon Puzzle 196 // 12 Trees 200 // Chained to a Tree in Berkeley, California 201 // A Short History of Trees 201 // Population and Markets: The Forest Transition Theory 209 // Political Economy: Accumulation and Deforestation 212 // Gender, Trees, and Power: Feminist Insights into Forests 214 // Ethics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing? 216 // The Tree Puzzle 218 // 13 Wolves 222 // Wolves, Be Wary Where You Tread 223 // A Short History of Wolves 224 // Ethics: Rewilding and Wolves 229 // Institutions: Stakeholder Management 232 // Feminism: Of Wolves and Masculinity 235 // The Wolf Puzzle 238 // viii Contents // 14 Uranium 242 // Promise and Peril in Post-Nuclear Worlds 243 // A Short History of Uranium 244 // Risk and Hazards: Debating the Fate of High-Level Radioactive Waste 250 // Race: Environmental Justice and the Navajo Nation 253 // Social Construction: Discourses at Work in Australia 256 // The Uranium Puzzle 260 // 15 Tuna 264 // Big Trouble for Big Tuna 265 // A Short History of Tuna 265 // Markets and Commodities: Eco-Labels to the Rescue? 270 // Political Economy: Re-regulating Fishery Economies 273 // Ethics: Saving Animals, Conserving Species 276 // The Tuna Puzzle 279 // 16 Lawns 283 // How Much Do People Love Lawns? 284 // A Short History of Lawns 284 // Risk and

Chemical Decision-Making 288 // Social Construction: Good Lawns Mean Good People 291 // Political Economy: The Chemical Tail Wags the Turfgrass Dog 292 // The Lawn Puzzle 295 // 17 Bottled Water 298 // A Tale of Two Bottles 299 // A Short History of Bottled Water 300 // Population: Bottling for Scarcity? 305 // Risk and Technology: Health and Safety in a Bottle? 307 // Political Economy: Manufacturing Demand on an Enclosed Commons 309 // Racialized Environments: The Burden of Bottled Water in the United States 312 // The Bottled Water Puzzle 314 // 18 French Fries 318 // Getting Your French Fry Fix r _ x 319 // A Short History of the Fry 319 // Feminist Approaches: The Body Politics of French Fries 325 // Political Economy and Racialized Environments: Have it Your Way? 328 // Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage? 333 // The French Fry Puzzle 337 // Contents // 19 E-Waste 341 // Digital Divides 342 // A Short History of E-Waste 343 // E-Waste and Markets: From Externality to Commodity 348 // The Political Economy of E-Waste 351 // E-Waste and Racialized Environments 355 // The E-Waste Puzzle 359 // Glossary 362 // Index 372