Economic Development Vs Environmental Protection
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Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment $30.19 For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived as small bands of hunter-gatherers in societies that appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, social equity, and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means examines the hunter-gatherer society and lifestyle, providing a brief introduction to the ri… |
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Local Science vs Global Science (Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology) $30.95 While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom … |
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Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism?: A Critical Analysis of Humanity’s Fundamental Choices $27.75 This major synoptic work is remarkable for its authorâs holistic treatment of the environment and social justice as inescapably related questions. He refuses to analyze the industrialized and developing countries as though they are so different that any understanding of the one can ignore the other. Saral Sarkar argues that the USSR bumped up against environmentally defined and resource-relat… |