The sixth edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human
societies, ecological systems, and the environment with data and perspectives from different …

On the coastal plain of eastern North Carolina, families in certain rural communities daily
must deal with the piercing, acrid odor of hog manure—reminiscent of rotten eggs and …

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern,
industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany …

Environmental hazards created by resource extraction impose numerous risks on rural
populations, but have been understudied in quantitative analyses of environmental …

Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues is intended to
provide students and interested readers with an introduction to environmental issues. More …

We employ Karl Marx's metabolic approach—via the concepts of metabolic rift and metabolic
restoration—to study the dynamic relationships of interchange associated with distinct …

Sustainability is a contested concept that has been at the center of discussions of natural
and social scientists for decades. Mainstream conceptualizations, predicated upon the …

Profitability and environmental benefits of beef cattle raised on natural pasture or combined
with soybean in tropical biomes need to be better evaluated. The objective of this research …

In analyzing the relations between human societies and the larger biophysical world, Karl
Marx employed a dialectical triadic scheme of “the universal metabolism of nature,” the …

Contemporary Earth and animal activists rarely collaborate, perhaps because
environmentalists focus on species and ecosystems, while animal advocates look to the …