Social impact of environmental issues

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger.

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequalityThe age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class.

The very first time Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres met the writer Nina Lakhani, Caceres said, "e;The army has an assassination list with my name at the top.

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future.

This volume presents twenty updated and new theories oftravelers decisions and behaviors.

This volume presents twenty updated and new theories oftravelers decisions and behaviors.

Environmental Criminology: Spatial Analysis and Regional Issues combines various academic perspectives to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to examining environmental criminology.

Environmental Criminology: Spatial Analysis and Regional Issues combines various academic perspectives to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to examining environmental criminology.

The legacies of a century of fossil-fuel based development andoverconsumption, of treating the environment as a waste sink for industryand agriculture, have left devastating impacts on the earth s air, water andland, and these are directly implicated in Climate Change.

The legacies of a century of fossil-fuel based development andoverconsumption, of treating the environment as a waste sink for industryand agriculture, have left devastating impacts on the earth s air, water andland, and these are directly implicated in Climate Change.

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies.

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies.

Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future.

Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian 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.

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.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe.

We're dirty.

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics.

Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.

For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts.

For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts.

What is it that makes humans human?

**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation.

Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism.

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead.

This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of what is one of the world's worst weeds.

Just what we need to get the job done - Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallAre you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment?

Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism.

Wolf populations have recently made a comeback in Northern Europe and North America.

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "e;highly visible"e; disasters and several slow-burning, "e;hidden,"e; crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change.

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate.

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself.

The "e;extensive wilderness"e; of Zambia s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries.

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change.

Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation.

The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene.

Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy.

George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus.

Since UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Compact in 1999, over 12,000 organisations around the world have voluntarily adopted and promoted its values and Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and corruption.

While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2016* *Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2015** Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain.

Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide.