World in Motion: The Globalization and the Environment Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0759110255 ISBN 13: 9780759110250

Publisher: Altamira Press, 2008

Synopsis

World in Motion This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us? Full description

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Review

This reader belongs in every environmental studies classroom. It is an essential guide to the big issues, a key to understanding how our species has transformed the planet, and why that transformation may end up making the earth uninhabitable.--Richard Wilk, Indiana University

This anthology will also be quite useful in a global environmental studies or an American environmental studies course seeking to understand and evaluate the impacts of American economic practices and globalization on the rest of the world. The book has a place outside the classroom as well as an effective primer on the number of crises that need to be challenged and some of the strategies for doing so. Specifically, it is definitely accessible to nonacademic readers.--Journal of World History

About the Author

Gary M. Kroll is associate professor in the History Department of SUNY at Plattsburgh. Richard H. Robbins is University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology of SUNY at Plattsburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0759110255
• ISBN 13: 9780759110250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Kroll Gary M., Robbins Richard H.