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8. Storm Warnings: The Role of Anthropology in Adapting to Sea-Level Rise in Southwestern Bangladesh
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written by Timothy Finan, 1947-; in Anthropology and Climate Change (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2009), 175-185
The first edition of Anthropology and Climate Change (2009) pioneered the study of climate change through the lens of anthropology, covering the relation between human cultures and the environment from prehistoric times to the present. This second, heavily revised edition brings the material on this rapidly changi...
written by Timothy Finan, 1947-; in Anthropology and Climate Change (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2009), 175-185
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2 ‘If over a hundred Becquerels is no good, then what does fifty Becquerels mean?’ Governing fisheries and marine radiation in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident
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written by Midori Kawabe, fl. 2017 and Leslie Mabon, fl. 2017; edited by Joseph K. W. Hill, fl. 2017, Lea Stepan, fl. 2017 and Ravi Baghel, fl. 2017; in Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 19-35
The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result of monolithic ac...
written by Midori Kawabe, fl. 2017 and Leslie Mabon, fl. 2017; edited by Joseph K. W. Hill, fl. 2017, Lea Stepan, fl. 2017 and Ravi Baghel, fl. 2017; in Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 19-35
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7 The media timescapes of BSE news
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written by Barbara E. Adam, 1945-; in Environmental Risks and the Media (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2003, originally published 2000), 117-129
Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the media'...
written by Barbara E. Adam, 1945-; in Environmental Risks and the Media (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2003, originally published 2000), 117-129
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Natural Resource Management, Volume 11, The Politics of Industrial Agriculture
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written by Nicholas Hildyard, fl. 1992 and Tracey Clunies-Ross, 1959-, in Natural Resource Management, Volume 11 (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2009, originally published 1992), 173 page(s)
In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more routine maltreatment o...
written by Nicholas Hildyard, fl. 1992 and Tracey Clunies-Ross, 1959-, in Natural Resource Management, Volume 11 (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2009, originally published 1992), 173 page(s)
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