Environmental ResponsesISBN: 978-0-470-85005-3
Paperback
320 pages
September 2003
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Climate change, urban congestion, nuclear waste, deforestation,
destruction of wildlife - how can we respond to these and the many
other environmental problems that the world faces today? Can we
trust the experts? Does technology have the answers? Should we look
to governments or to markets to solve the problems? Are political
solutions possible? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about
the environmental futures? To address these questions we need to
look at environmental responses in an integrated way. This includes
understanding the responses of environments to change, and the
responses to those changes made by societies. Environmental
Responses takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to
understanding the risks and uncertainties that inform our responses
to environments. Featuring places such as Lake Baikal, Andalusia,
Cumbria and Bhutan the book is richly illustrated drawing on
examples from across the world. Among the issues covered are:
* how we might deal with environmental risk in conditions of scientific and political uncertainty
* the need to understand the technical, economic and political responses to environmental change
* finding new ways of involving citizens in decisions affecting environmental futures
* the prospects for achieving sustainable forms of development
Environmental Responses is the final book in a series entitled Environment: Change, Contest and Response that forms a large part of an Open University interdisciplinary course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are:Understanding Environmental Issues
Changing Environments
Contested Environments
* how we might deal with environmental risk in conditions of scientific and political uncertainty
* the need to understand the technical, economic and political responses to environmental change
* finding new ways of involving citizens in decisions affecting environmental futures
* the prospects for achieving sustainable forms of development
Environmental Responses is the final book in a series entitled Environment: Change, Contest and Response that forms a large part of an Open University interdisciplinary course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are:Understanding Environmental Issues
Changing Environments
Contested Environments