Social impact of environmental issues

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms.

This book is about the resilience of silvo-pastoral systems now, and in the future.

In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border.

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the current state of inland waters in tropical and subtropical East Asia, exploring a series of case studies of freshwater fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and water bodies at particular risk.

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists.

Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the world, causing significant destruction to individuals and communities.

This book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history.

The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future.

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes.

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

This book considers the philosophical underpinnings, policy foundations, institutional innovations, and deep cultural changes needed to ensure that humanity has the best chance of surviving and flourishing into the very distant future.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores.

Die Klimakrise bedroht nicht nur unsere Erde als Lebensgrundlage, sondern auch das psychische Wohlbefinden vieler Menschen: Mehr als zwei Drittel der 14- bis 24-Jährigen in Deutschland leiden an großer Angst vor ihr.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

The authoritative assessment of the many climate change impacts on allergens and allergic diseases, for researchers, clinicians, students.

This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience.

Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed the basis of the National Institute of Design.

This book examines a new topic in Human Resource Management (HRM), green - or environmental - HRM, analysing the role humans play in environmental management at work and environmental behaviours at workplaces around the world.

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During evolution, there have been several major changes in the way that genetic information is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Entertaining, easy-to-understand book by dietitian Dr.

The second edition of this classic work that evaluates the ecological reasons for European expansion.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world's major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR).

The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security.

Drawing on recent work in sport studies, business and management, health, science, and law, this book offers a critical examination of the latest published research on sport and environmental sustainability.

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being.

The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises.

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me.

Scientists directly involved in studying the Exxon Valdez spill provide a comprehensive synthesis of scientific information on long-term spill effects.

Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars.

Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure?

Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society.

Managers of multinational organizations are struggling to win the strategic competition for the hearts and minds of external stakeholders.

This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage and resilience.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.