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Inside Technology Serie de eBooks

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  • Ignorance and Surprise

    Science, Society, and Ecological Design

    de Matthias Gross ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research—one that defies prediction or risk assessment—is often a window to new and ... Leer más

    $30,859 CLP

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    de Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Leer más

    $35,154 CLP

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    de John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Leer más

    $70,726 CLP

  • The Ecosystem Approach

    Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability

    de David Waltner-Toews, James Kay, Nina-Marie Lister ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems? Is it scientifically defensible? Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity and the thermodynamics of ecosystems. Drawing from his immensely important work, as well as the research ... Leer más

    $53,043 CLP

  • Environmental Anthropology Today

    Edición de Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools ... Leer más

    $75,014 CLP

  • The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

    Edición de Alwin F. Fill, Hermine Penz ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins with chapters on language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment, with authors providing insight into the link between the loss of ... Leer más

    $75,014 CLP

  • Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene

    An Emerging Paradigm

    Edición de Peter Timmerman, Peter Brown ...
    Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences. The emerging paradigm for ecological economics championed in this new book recenters the field ... Leer más

    $53,043 CLP

  • Meeting at Grand Central

    Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation

    de Lee Cronk, Beth L. Leech ...
    A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciencesFrom the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ... Leer más

    $38,585 CLP

  • Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing

    de Thomas Widlok ...
    Series series Critical Topics in Contemporary Anthropology
    This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood. Widlok advocates a refreshingly broad comparative approach to our understanding of sharing, with a rich range of ... Leer más

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  • What is a Disaster?

    A Dozen Perspectives on the Question

    Edición de E.L. Quarantelli ...
    Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions?In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions are ... Leer más

    $91,091 CLP

  • Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies

    Edición de Adam Burgess, Alberto Alemanno, Jens Zinn ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is over 40 years since we began to reflect upon risk in a more social than technological and economic fashion, firstly making sense of the gap between expert and public assessment of risks, such as to our health and environment. With fixed certainties of the past eroded and the technological leaps of ‘big data’, ours is truly an age of risk, uncertainty and probability - from Google’s ... Leer más

    $76,086 CLP

  • Social Networks and Natural Resource Management

    Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance

    Edición de Örjan Bodin, Christina Prell ...
    Social Network Analysis (SNA), a quantitative approach to the study of social relations, has recently emerged as a key tool for understanding the governance of natural resources. Bringing together contributions from a range of researchers in the field, this is the first book to fully explore the potential applications of SNA in the context of natural resource management. Topics covered include the ... Leer más

    $65,036 CLP