Science, society and the environment: (Record no. 7164)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780415715997 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 304.2 |
| Item number | DOV-S |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Dove, Michael R. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Science, society and the environment: |
| Remainder of title | applying anthropology and physics to sustainability / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Michael R. Dove and Daniel M. Kammen. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Routledge, |
| Year of publication | 2015. |
| Place of publication | London: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 163 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction : the anthropology and physics of sustainable environmental systems --<br/>The virtues of mundane science : studying the everyday --<br/>Nature, society, and science in anthropogenic grasslands : studying declensionist discourses --<br/>High-modern versus local folk views of dearth and abundance : studying failure vs success in resource management systems --<br/>Differences in perceptions of climate change between and within nations : studying science, scientists, and folk --<br/>Conclusions : reflections on inter-disciplinarity, sustainability, and thermodynamics. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Abstract, etc | In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kammen Daniel M. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | EP |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sustainability -- Social aspects. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Environmental sociology. |
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| Non Fiction | Library, SPAB | Library, SPAB | D-1 | 13/05/2016 | SPAB/LIB/16-17/B668/2016-04-04/IN14394/15-16/2016-04-30/Shankar/GBP31.99/Rs3227.79 | 304.2 DOV-S | 009613 | Books |