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Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Sweden, 1800-2000
This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.
This book presents a rich and extensive empirical study on biophysical aspects of two hundred years of economic history for Sweden.
Through a series of ethnographic studies that range from Papua New Guinea to Siberia, Brazil to Namibia, Ethnographies of Conservation argues that the problem is not the disappearance of “pristine nature” or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, critical attention would be better turned on discourses of “primitiveness” and “pristine nature,” so prevalent within conservation ideology.
Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormones in humans and wildlife, especially in the development of the fetus in the womb.