Social impact of environmental issues

This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.

In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat.

The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before.

Food versus Fuel presents a high-level introduction to the science and economics behind a well-worn debate, that will debunk myths and provide quality facts and figures for academics and practitioners in development studies, environment studies, and agricultural studies.

The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed.

'Urgent, profound and compassionate ROBERT MACFARLANE'Truly original .

The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception.

Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects.

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.

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.

In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming global threat of viral catastrophes.

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now.

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work.

Climate-induced disasters constitute a major risk to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

Climate-induced disasters constitute a major risk to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

The book fills a void by bringing together literature in an under-represented but disaster-prone region - Southeast Asia.

The book fills a void by bringing together literature in an under-represented but disaster-prone region - Southeast Asia.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

There has been increasing concern over the impacts of 21st century challenges, be it on environmental, social, and economic aspect.

There has been increasing concern over the impacts of 21st century challenges, be it on environmental, social, and economic aspect.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

This book, the first of its kind, seeks to demonstrate how 'SDG15 - Life on Land' can be implemented through effective biodiversity management, mainstreaming strategies and proposing solutions to achieve and consolidate the goals.

This book, the first of its kind, seeks to demonstrate how 'SDG15 - Life on Land' can be implemented through effective biodiversity management, mainstreaming strategies and proposing solutions to achieve and consolidate the goals.

In Europe and other developed countries, much of the population live in small and medium sized towns.

In Europe and other developed countries, much of the population live in small and medium sized towns.

Arts, Ecologies, Transitions provides in-depth insights into how aesthetic relations and current artistic practices are fundamentally ecological and intrinsically connected to the world.

An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present.

The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration.

Why, when so many people understand the severity of environmental problems, is progress so slow and sustainability such a distant goal?

This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa.

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like-and how they work-so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe.

This book examines how journalism functions among "e;synergistic effects"e; of climate change, such as compounded impact of severe weather, social and political responses to changing global warming, and the often-unfortunate results and impacts on our environments.

As featured on ITV News and Radio 4's Today programme'This book could not come at a more appropriate moment .

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention.

Planetary Health - the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked - encourages the preservation and sustainability of natural systems for the benefit of human health.

Planetary Health - the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked - encourages the preservation and sustainability of natural systems for the benefit of human health.

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.