Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.
social change
The Steam Engine
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
"From a 'Sociology of Nature' to Environmental Sociology: Beyond Social Construction"
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
"Let the Environment Guide our Development"
Johan Rockstrom works to redefine sustainability, and identifies nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies
About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.
Content
“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
"Decisions vs. Willingness-to-Pay in Social Choice"
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
"Can Environmental Ethics 'Solve' Environmental Problems and Save the World? Yes, but First We Must Recognise the Essential Normative Nature of Environmental Problems"
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
"Science and Society in Historical Perspective: Implications for Social Theories of Risk"
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.