Author: Bhaskar Nath
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: stressors, sectors, compartments, volume, management, practice, environmental
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-03
List price: $420.00
ISBN-10: 041514907X
ISBN-13: 9780415149075

Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors, deals with the problems that occur in the three ’compartments’ of the environment, namely air, water and soil. The contributors also address the socio-economic sectors of industry, traffic, energy, agriculture and tourism.

Authors:Bhaskar Nath, Yontcho Pelovski, Stoyan K. Stoyanov,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sub, partnership, science, series, environmental, volume, security, nato, region, waste, solid, management, southern, sea, black, sustainable
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2000-10-31
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0792366808
ISBN-13: 9780792366805

For historical and socio-economic reasons, the countries of the southern Black Sea region are facing mounting and apparently intractable problems in managing their solid waste, with increasingly serious implications for public health and quality of life, as well as the wider socio-economic development of the region. Hitherto, no comprehensive, systematic study of the problem seems to have been conducted, to determine the underlying causes and suggesting how it might be alleviated in socially and economically viable ways, aiming at sustainability. The present book analyzes the causes

Author: Roy Bhaskar
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, texts, classical, pulse, freedom, dialectic
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008-08-13
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415454913
ISBN-13: 9780415454919

Dialectic is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy. This book, first published in 1993, sets itself three main aims: the development of a general theory of dialectic, of which Hegelian dialectic can be seen to be a special case; the dialectical enrichment and deepening of critical realism, viz. into the system of dialectical critical realism; and the outline of the elements of a totalizing critique of Western philosophy. The first chapter clarifies the rational core of Hegelian dialectic. Chapter two then proceeds to develop a general theory of dialectic. Isolating t

Author: Roy Bhaskar
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, science, theory, realist
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844672042
ISBN-13: 9781844672042

The groundbreaking text that forms the foundation for the philosophical movement of critical realism. A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as ‘Critical Realism’, which is both intellectually diverse and internat

Author: Bhaskar Shukla
Publisher: Sarup & Son
Keywords: friedan, betty, wollstonecraft, mary, feminism
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2008-02-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8176257540
ISBN-13: 9788176257541

Author: Krish N Bhaskar
Publisher: Croom Helm
Keywords: systems, macroeconomic
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 1976
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0856642010
ISBN-13: 9780856642012

Authors:Partha Nath Mukherji, Partha Nath Mukherji, Chandan
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: asian, response, south, science, universality, social, indigeneity
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0761932151
ISBN-13: 9780761932154

Are social sciences that are indigenous to the West necessarily universal for other cultures? This collection of South Asian scholarship draws on the experiences of the region to discuss this question in depth.