Social impact of environmental issues

This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

In Who Will Build the Ark?

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures.

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

Cities across the globe are growing fast.

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures.

El valle geográfico del río Cauca, privilegiado por sus fuentes de agua, plantas y biodiversidad, ubicado en el suroccidente colombiano, ha sido escenario de la expansión del cultivo de la caña de azúcar, beneficiado por la combinación de factores históricos, económicos, técnicos, ecológicos y geográficos, pero con perjuicios en los ecosistemas y en la sociedad.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize FinalistA National Book Award FinalistA Writers' Trust Award FinalistShortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation PrizeA Guardian Book of the YearA New York Times Book of the Year 'No book feels timelier .

Stories of Human Resilience in a Changing Climate offers a captivating glimpse into the human face of climate change.

Una estación meteorológica posible se constituye en una herramienta, no sólo para la recolección de valiosos datos en lugares apartados, sino también como un excelente ejercicio académico para que niños y estudiantes conozcan algunos conceptos de clima e identifiquen patrones del tiempo atmosférico y su relación con la vida diaria (e.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change.

This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associated with natural resource governance.

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene.

The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.

As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era.

From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for peoples lives and health.

This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change.

Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution.

This comprehensive survey of green media and popular culture introduces the reader to the key debates and theories surrounding green interpretations of popular film, television and journalism, as well as comedy, music, animation, and computer games.

This book emerges from a three-year Australian Research Council-funded study that asks how the formation and (d)evolution of leadership has impacted on public environmental debate.

This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media.

The division of 'rural' and 'urban' is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture.

In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease.

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty.

An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation is designed to help practitioners and students of emergency management understand various aspects of the exercise design process.

The "e;Declaration of Interdependence"e; -- both an enlightening creed and a passionate call to action -- was composed by David Suzuki and a team of activists and environmentalists in 1992, in recognition of the United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

This book responds to the need to rehabilitate the holistic urban environment by introducing planning approaches which focus on the Japanese idea of "e;Satoyama.

'A beautiful book and the perfect Christmas present.

Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, waiting only for government assistance in the aftermath of such events.

Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster.

Humankind has long considered the relationship it holds with nature to be both a blessing and a challenge.

For millennia, we lived in harmony with the Earth, taking only what we required to survive.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

A ';smart, honest, and down-to-earth' (Elizabeth Kolbert) citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate.

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions and examines what they mean for humankinds place in the world.

Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond.

This book provides the results of nine case studies of the course of social events in mineral exploration projects (mostly in Latin America).

This book compares and contrasts traditional crime scenes with scenes of climate crisis to offer a more expansive definition of crime which includes environmental harm.

As more governments, companies and individuals scan the globe for access to primary resources such as minerals and timber, food, power and water, and destinations for work, holidays and homes, pressures on places and communities grow.

On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular 'Die Sorge des Hausvaters', for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world.