Contested Environments

Why are food scares become so common? Whose voices count in decisions affecting the landscapes where we live? Will we soon be wars over water? What makes people protest outside international trade meetings? These are just a few of the questions that are explored in "Contested Environments". By bringing together perspectives from science, social science, technology, and humanities, the book addresses in a uniquely interdisciplinary way why environmental issues are so often controversial. Other features include the detailed examination of a wide range of topics from specific disputes such as those around GM crops, national parks, energy policy, water supply, and international trade to broader debates like environmental justice, economic valuation of environments, and the media, the promotion of integrative thinking through the book wide use of the concepts of value, power, and action, the inclusion of frequent activities to encourage readers to develop both their appreciation of particular issues and generic skills, the rich illustration of the text with examples from around the world. The book is part of a series entitled "Environment: Change, Contest and Response". The series forms a significant part of an interdisciplinary Open University course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are: "Understanding Environmental Issues"; "Changing Environments"; and, "Environmental Responses".

ISBN 0470850000   Pages 352 ISBN13 9780470850008 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 920 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd   Published in Chichester Format Paperback   Series title Ou-Wiley Environment Publication date 23 May 2003   Height (mm) 245 Library of Congress GF1   Width (mm) 193 DEWEY 333.7   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Series preface
		Introduction by Nick Bingham		1
Ch. 1		Food fights: on power, contest and GM by Nick Bingham		3
Ch. 2		Landscape, parks, wilderness by Chris Belshaw		43
Ch. 3		Power in the land: conflicts over energy and the environment by Andrew Blowers and Dave Elliott		83
Ch. 4		Troubled waters by Pam Furniss		131
Ch. 5		Trading with the environment by Annie Taylor		171
Ch. 6		Environmental justice and the environmental justice movement by Wendy Maples		213
Ch. 7		Environmental values in environmental decision making by Jacquie Burgess		251
Ch. 8		Making environment news by Joe Smith		289
		Conclusion by Nick Bingham		329
		Acknowledgements		332
		Index		336

."..a useful addition to the environmental literature..." (The Holocene, Vol 14(4), 2004)

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