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Anthropology and Climate Change
edited by Mark Nuttall, 1962- and Susan Crate, 1957- (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2009), 417 page(s)
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...
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edited by Mark Nuttall, 1962- and Susan Crate, 1957- (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2009), 417 page(s)
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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 changing field completely up to date, with major scholars from around the world mapping out trajectories of research and issuing specific cal...
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 changing field completely up to date, with major scholars from around the world mapping out trajectories of research and issuing specific calls for action. The new edition introduces new “foundational” chapters—laying out what anthropologists know about climate change today, new theoretical and practical perspectives, insights gleaned from sociology, and international efforts to study and curb climate change—making the volume a perfect introductory textbook; presents a series of case studies—both new case studies and old ones updated and viewed with fresh eyes—with the specific purpose of assessing climate trends;
provides a close look at how climate change is affecting livelihoods, especially in the context of economic globalization and the migration of youth from rural to urban areas;
expands coverage to England, the Amazon, the Marshall Islands, Tanzania, and Ethiopia;
re-examines the conclusions and recommendations of the first volume, refining our knowledge of what we do and do not know about climate change and what we can do to adapt.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Mark Nuttall, 1962-, Susan Crate, 1957-
Date Published / Released
2009, 2016
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Climate Change - Context and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Climate change, Ecology, Anthropology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2009 Taylor & Francis
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Date Written / Recorded
1595
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Essay
Topic / Theme
Food and Commodities, Trade Agreements, Food supply, Trade and commerce, Meats and poultry, Fisheries, Economics, Law, Global Consumerism, English, Early Modern Period (1450–1750)
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California Studies in Food and Culture, Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America
written by Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018; edited by Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006, in California Studies in Food and Culture (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 472 page(s)
Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients—like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk—have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 196...
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written by Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018; edited by Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006, in California Studies in Food and Culture (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 472 page(s)
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Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients—like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk—have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 1960s: immigrants have created demand for produce and other foods from their homelands; grocers and food processors have sought to market...
Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients—like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk—have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 1960s: immigrants have created demand for produce and other foods from their homelands; grocers and food processors have sought to market new foods; and transportation improvements have enabled food companies to bring those foods from afar. Yet, even as choices within stores have exploded, supermarket chains have consolidated. Throughout the food industry, fewer companies manage production and distribution, controlling what American consumers can access. Mining a wealth of menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans’ changing eating habits to shed light on the impact of immigration and globalization on American culture.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Topic / Theme
Food and Commodities, Immigration and emigration, Food industry, Globalization, Restaurants, Diet and food, Economics, Global Consumerism, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2020 University of California Press
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Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, 8, Tributyltin: Case Study of an Environmental Contaminant
edited by Stephen J. De Mora, fl. 1990, in Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, 8 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, originally published 1996), 322 page(s)
This authoritative study brings together a wide variety of disciplines to illustrate the general principles in identifying and quantifying an environmental toxin, elucidating deleterious biological consequences, and the legal framework that can invoke mitigation via regulation. It has wide appeal for undergraduate...
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Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, 8, Tributyltin: Case Study of an Environmental Contaminant
edited by Stephen J. De Mora, fl. 1990, in Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, 8 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, originally published 1996), 322 page(s)
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This authoritative study brings together a wide variety of disciplines to illustrate the general principles in identifying and quantifying an environmental toxin, elucidating deleterious biological consequences, and the legal framework that can invoke mitigation via regulation. It has wide appeal for undergraduate courses in environmental science, chemistry, marine ecology and environmental law.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Stephen J. De Mora, fl. 1990
Date Published / Released
1996, 2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series
Topic / Theme
Environmental law, Aquatic ecology, Water pollution, Marine life, Pesticides, Law, Ecology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996
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Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands
written by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 196 page(s)
Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade i...
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written by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 196 page(s)
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Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. They show that flaps—which are taken from the animals' belli...
Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. They show that flaps—which are taken from the animals' bellies and are often 50 percent fat—are not mere market transactions but evidence of the social nature of nutrition policies, illustrating and reinforcing Pacific Islanders' presumed second-class status relative to the white populations of Australia and New Zealand.
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Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Topic / Theme
Food and Commodities, Race and culture, Nutrition, Lamb (Meat), Food industry, Diet and food, Politics & Policy, Economics, Anthropology, Trade and Developing Nations, Agriculture, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2010 University of California Press
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Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
edited by Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 1992), 460 page(s)
As we approach the end of the twentieth century, public and scientific attention is focusing increasingly on the detection and assessment of changes in our environment. This unique volume addresses the potential implications of global warming for fisheries and the societies which depend on them.
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edited by Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 1992), 460 page(s)
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As we approach the end of the twentieth century, public and scientific attention is focusing increasingly on the detection and assessment of changes in our environment. This unique volume addresses the potential implications of global warming for fisheries and the societies which depend on them.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992
Date Published / Released
1992, 2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Climate Change - Context and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Fisheries, Climate change, Sociology, Ecology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992
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Communication from the secretary of the Treasury: transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 8, 1851, the report o...
written by Israel Andrews, in Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (08 March 1851) (District of Columbia, 1853, originally published 1853), 201 page(s)
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written by Israel Andrews, in Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (08 March 1851) (District of Columbia, 1853, originally published 1853), 201 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
08 March 1851, 1851
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Israel Andrews
Date Published / Released
1853
Topic / Theme
Canada and the United States Border, Fisheries, Natural resources, Cotton, Trade and commerce, Colonization, History, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Copyright Message
Material sourced from Senate House Library, University of London. Copyright © The University of London.
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Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin
edited by Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1999), 305 page(s)
This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century: the slow onset of incremental changes which affected the Aral Sea region and its peoples. It provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and r...
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edited by Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1999), 305 page(s)
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This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century: the slow onset of incremental changes which affected the Aral Sea region and its peoples. It provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Michael H. Glantz, fl. 1992
Date Published / Released
1999, 2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Aral Sea, Water resources development, Environmental disasters, Lakes, Ecology, Northern Uzbek, Russians, Kazakh, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999
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Documents in International Environmental Law (Second Edition)
edited by Paolo Galizzi, fl. 2004 and Philippe Sands, 1960- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1994), 1398 page(s)
Documents in International Environmental Law comprises a representative selection of international environmental treaties and documents which are essential for anyone interested in international law in the field of environmental protection. This edition represents an up-to-date collection of the most important doc...
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edited by Paolo Galizzi, fl. 2004 and Philippe Sands, 1960- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1994), 1398 page(s)
Description
Documents in International Environmental Law comprises a representative selection of international environmental treaties and documents which are essential for anyone interested in international law in the field of environmental protection. This edition represents an up-to-date collection of the most important documents easily accessible to students, academics and practitioners.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Paolo Galizzi, fl. 2004, Philippe Sands, 1960-
Date Published / Released
1994, 2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), Treaties, Environmental protection, International laws, Ecology, Law, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © Philippe Sands and Paolo Gallizzi 2004
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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management, Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
edited by Joseph K. W. Hill, fl. 2017, Lea Stepan, fl. 2017 and Ravi Baghel, fl. 2017, in Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 279 page(s)
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...
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edited by Joseph K. W. Hill, fl. 2017, Lea Stepan, fl. 2017 and Ravi Baghel, fl. 2017, in Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 279 page(s)
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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 actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating to water in a variety of settings and knowledge sy...
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 actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating to water in a variety of settings and knowledge systems. With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another. While it is difficult to carry out comprehensive research on water knowledge in Asia due to its linguistic, political and cultural fragmentation, the topic nevertheless has relevance across boundaries. By using a carefully chosen selection of case studies in a variety of locations and across diverse disciplines, the book demonstrates commonalities and differences in everyday water practices around Asia while challenging both romantic presumptions and Eurocentrism. Examples presented include class differences in water use in the megacity of Delhi, India; the impact of radiation on water practices in Fukushima, Japan; the role of the King in hydraulic practices in Thailand, and ritual irrigation in Bali, Indonesia.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Joseph K. W. Hill, fl. 2017, Lea Stepan, fl. 2017, Ravi Baghel, fl. 2017
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Topic / Theme
Water in South Asia, Water resources development, Water supply, Hydrology, Politics & Policy, Ecology, Asians, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan and Joseph K. W. Hill
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