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'The arena of environmental issues is a minefield for undergraduate students seeking clarity about key problems and solutions. This is where Understanding Environmental Issues will play a major role, providing a stimulating guide through the wealth of material and complex ideas. In particular, the unification of social and physical science in the case studies provides an holistic approach to the subject that is essential for students and a refreshing innovation for environmental textbooks' - Anna R. Davies, Trinity College, University of Dublin '...provides an excellent foundation for developing critical thinking about contemporary environmental concerns and the ways in which these are debated, represented and managed. The book should achieve its aim of stimulating students to engage with how ideas of sustainability and environmental justice can be applied both in policy and in practical action' - Professor Gordon Walker, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University 'Straight outta Uxbridge something special emerged from the grim surroundings of Brunel University, a concrete jungle in the London suburbs, in the 1990s - a passionate, committed group of geographers and geologists with a commitment to innovative pedagogy, to the application of knowledge, and to tackling the big environmental issues of the day...This book, written by a team that includes at least two media stars, shows that understanding the environment should involve engagement, and reaching out beyond the campus. It also tackles the big issues of the day, and how we value them and approach them as scholars, citizens and activists. A useful set of thematic chapters introduce students to key environmental issues - the food and waste streams, climate change, natural hazards, and urban environments. Highly recommended' - Simon P J Batterbury, School of Resource Management and geography, University of Melbourne and ECI, University of Oxford 'The book's strengths are to do with the pedagogic backgrounds and commitment of the authors and the spread of expertise revealed. I do like section 1 where some of the big ideas and concepts are explored followed by section 2 where case studies are written by partnerships of scientists and social scientists. The case studies provided are of worldwide environmental significance and the final chapter on Mexico City touches on many of the concepts and cases written about earlier in the text...A key objective was to stimulate interest and action by the readers - I think it will achieve that and not just for an undergraduate audience. I found it was written and illustrated in an accessible way. Highly recommended' - Professor Ashley Kent, Institute of Education University of London 'Understanding Environmental Issues will stimulate critical thinking and debate about the inextricable links between the physical and socio-political determinants of our planet's future' - Julian Agyeman, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning,Tufts University 'In a world where concrete environmental systems are in a state of change at the same time our understandings of these systems are in upheaval, teaching environmental issues has become impossible without meaningful integration of earth systems and political-economic relationships. Buckingham, Turner, and their collaborators accomplish this extremely difficult task and make a range of complex and iterative synergies clear, immediate, and compelling: hydrology and water rights; agronomy and land control; carbon loading and carbon trading; systems of flows and systems of meaning. A terrific teaching text' - Professor Paul Robbins, University of Arizona There is now an unprecedented interest in, and concern about, environmental problems. Understanding Environmental Issues explains the science behind these problems, as well as the economic, political, social, and cultural factors which produce and reproduce them. Understanding Envi

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PublisherSage Publications Inc

ISBN-139780761942368

eBay Product ID (ePID)95552943

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameUnderstanding Environmental Issues

Publication Year2008

SubjectEngineering & Technology

TypeTextbook

AuthorMike Turner, Susan Buckingham

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height242 mm

Item Weight460 g

Item Width170 mm

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EditorMike Turner, Susan Buckingham

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

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Understanding Environmental Issues by Mike Turner, Susan Buckingham (Paperback, 2008)