Social impact of environmental issues

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.

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

Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining.

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.

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.

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?