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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 46
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 46. ^A586944
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Preface -- Section1: Theories in environmental management. -- Search for a theory linking environment and society / Doriana Dariot and Luis Felipe Nascimento -- Gaia: The politics of love and the globe's future: orientations in perverse ecologies / Serena Anderlini D'Onofrio -- Section 2: Framework. -- Sustainability: framing a shared vision of hope / Kandal Hodgman -- Voluntary agreements in Queensland, Australia: contributing factors and current incentive schemes / Jo Kehoe -- Section 3: Class and conflict. -- Global enviornmental governance: mapping unequal and contested terrain / Andrew Deak -- Sustainable outcomes through effective conflict management / Tania Sourdin -- Section 4: Information management. -- The public debate on genetic modification (GM) -- varieties of understanding / Linda Hadfield -- Environmental justice: bridging the gap between experts and laymen / Kim Loyens |
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Section 5: Environmental activism. -- Promoting environmental citizenship? A critique of the moral persuasiveness of direct action environmental protest / Belinda Clements -- How many koalas are there on Kangaroo Island? / Sarah Wilks -- Section 6: Education. -- Environmental education in a course on ethics and international development / Judith Andre -- Carbon justice? the case against a universal right to equal carbon emissions / Derek R. Bell -- Section 7: Professionals and corporations. -- The final frontier: free trade, corporate capitalism and international environmental law / Kristy J. Buckley -- Empowerment of professionals as a strategy for effective sustainability of the built environment / Joseph Akin Fadamiro. |
| Abstract |
Based on presentations made at the conference entitled Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship held in July 2006 at Oxford, UK, 14 papers consider environmental concerns against their social contexts. Contributors address theories in environmental management as they pertain to society and to orientations in "perverse" ecologies, the framework of sustainability, including voluntary agreements and incentives, class and conflict in environmental governance, including the uses of effective conflict, information management including the public debate on genetic modification and the differences between experts and laymen, environmental activism, education, including environmental education in a course on ethics and international development, and the effects of free trade, corporate capitalism, and empowerment of professionals, on sustainability and international environmental law. |
| General note | " ... contains developed versions of presentations made to the 5th conference on 'Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship', held in Oxford, UK in July 2006"--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019287194 |
| ISBN | 9042023783 |
| ISBN | 9789042023789 |
