Social impact of environmental issues

This is the first book to cover existing debates on decolonising and developmental social work whilst equipping readers with the understanding of how to translate the idea of decolonisation of social work into practice.

Civil society participants have voiced concerns that the environmental problems that were the subject of multilateral environmental agreements negotiated during the 1992 Rio processes are not serving to ameliorate global environmental problems.

Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers.

Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature.

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

The Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums, as it relates to sustainability in the museum and heritage sector.

Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age.

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Seeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today.

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

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography.

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis.

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory.

Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value.

In Eco-Performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US, Courtney B.

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years' experience living and teaching ecological planning in Turkey.

CHOICE Recommended title 2022This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity.

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.

Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives.

According to the laws of conservation of mass and energy, matter cannot be created or destroyed.

This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.

This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating habits and improving nutrition among schoolchildren as well as other benefits relating to climate change adaptation, ecoliteracy and greening school spaces.

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

When we think about climate change, our first thoughts are often of burning rainforests, cities filled with smog, and mammals teetering on the brink of extinction.

This timely and innovative book delves into the complex interplay of human activities and natural limits in generating today's sustainability challenges.

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In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces.

In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change.

ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks.

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared.

Mudskippers are amphibious fishes native to the Indo-West Pacific and tropical western Africa.

A behind-the-scenes exposure why our electricity system is headed for a state of emergency-and what can be done to head it off Most people don't realize that skyrocketing global energy demand and economic growth severely affect the supply of electricity.

Ethiopia is facing environmental and poverty challenges, and urgently needs effective management of its environmental resources.

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

In a world where we're bombarded with advice on going green, authors Mark Townsend and David Glick take a refreshing line and tell us how NOT to go green.

Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements.

Academics, activists, and artists offer historically and socially grounded perspectives on climate justice in Indian society and politics.

Oil pollution has been a major environmental concern since the 1920s.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics.

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, ';an exquisitely written and dramatic booka literary page-turner' (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.