Social impact of environmental issues

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey.

Explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores a sustainable path for the future.

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles and the realities of climate change has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies.

This textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses.

One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals.

Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s in the streets of Manhattan and now attracts 1200 competitors from the U.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development.

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

This is an exciting time for natural resources planning.

Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people.

This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

Transformative Politics of Nature highlights the most significant barriers to conservation in Canada and discusses strategies to confront and overcome them.

This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability.

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased.

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability.

First published in 1992.

In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century.

Originally published in 1983, Broadman and Montgomery present an agenda for further research into deregulated natural gas markets by relating natural gas production, transmission and distribution with the economic function of contracts and local distribution companies.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts.

Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability.

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.

This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.

Die Menschheit ist ungeheuer erfolgreich.

Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies.

The Handbook of Regulations on Environmental Protection in China details the environmental laws, regulations and standards in China for those enforcing and creating environmental policy as it stood in the early 1990's.

This book explains how the U.

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles.

An accessible, engagingly written book on Arctic environmental change and cooperation by an author intimately involved in Arctic science and policy.

The oil price shocks of the 1970's led to severe recessions in the 1980's in the United States.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally.

Originally published in 1985, this volume of essays was compiled in honour of Gordon Manley, a major and distinctive twentieth-century figure in climatology.

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.

Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design.

This state-of-the-art compendium, combining theory with practical examples, looks at the entire biochar supply chain.

Stakeholder or public participation has become something of a modern mantra employed in all sorts of contexts to give people a voice.

Much of the published work on disaster response has focused on specific disasters, highlighting what went wrong.