Environmental management

Building on recent scholarship in the sociology of food, Claire Lamine uses in-depth case studies from France and Brazil to compile a critical survey of social science approaches to sustainability transitions in agri-food systems.

Building on recent scholarship in the sociology of food, Claire Lamine uses in-depth case studies from France and Brazil to compile a critical survey of social science approaches to sustainability transitions in agri-food systems.

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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This book introduces readers in the environmental policy-making and management process in India by examining various dimensions of environmental challenges faced by the nation.

Throughout most of American history, natural resource policies reflected the dominant philosophy of cornucopianism.

The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, hangs in the balance.

Ecology has become an integral part of the strategic context in which corporations operate.

Recognizing that sound information is vital to the progress of conservation, IUCN have gathered together a visual portfolio of maps of rain forests in Africa.

This book explores why, a decade after Zimbabwean independence, government agricultural development policies still retains surprising similarities with those of the colonial period despite lengthy peasant opposition.

Explore present and future energy needs as well as options for continued use of fossil fuels and alternative energy sources with Dunlap's SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, 2nd Edition.

Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment mini series provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on the remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches.

This book comprehensively discusses different scientific approaches, including groundwater sustainability, numerical modeling, index approach, isotope hydrology, environmental Isotopes, and advanced GRACE satellite data from different regions in developing countries globally, to help understand the groundwater system for strategic management of freshwater resources.

This book comprehensively discusses different scientific approaches, including groundwater sustainability, numerical modeling, index approach, isotope hydrology, environmental Isotopes, and advanced GRACE satellite data from different regions in developing countries globally, to help understand the groundwater system for strategic management of freshwater resources.

Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task.

Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task.

Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue.

High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue.

This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the Global South.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago.

Food has become an essential component in community development practice.

Food has become an essential component in community development practice.

Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement.

Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement.

There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation.

There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development.