Human Geography

New PDF release: Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible

By Barbara Adam

ISBN-10: 0415162742

ISBN-13: 9780415162746

ISBN-10: 0415162750

ISBN-13: 9780415162753

Timescapes of Modernity explores the connection among time and environmental and socio-cultural matters. utilizing examples comparable to the BSE challenge, the ocean Empress oil pollutants and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental dangers are inescapably tied to the successes of the commercial lifestyle. worldwide markets and financial progress; large-scale construction of nutrients; the rate of delivery and verbal exchange; the 24 hour society or even democratic politics are one of the invisible dangers we are facing. With this distinctive 'timescape' standpoint the writer dislodges assumptions approximately environmental switch, allows a rethinking of environmental difficulties and offers the possibility of new options to house environmental hazards.

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