Social impact of environmental issues

Corinna Oschatz zeigt am Beispiel des Klimawandels, was Rezipienten aus den Medien über Politik lernen.

With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future.

Urban land is a precious resource and originally published in 1961, Transportation and Urban Land aims to create an approach to analysing and projecting its uses with a particular focus on the household sector.

We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard.

Organic Wesley:A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming, and Faith examines the intersectionof the teachings of John Wesley with the ethics of the contemporary foodmovement.

Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us.

Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how it occurs, how we measure it, and what it means for our future.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles.

In Meaningful Pasts, Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester explore two strands of identity-making among residents of the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "e;common ground"e; - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity.

This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors.

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives.

It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment.

An analysis of the challenge that India''s poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology''s creation of a public role for science.

This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse.

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology.

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration.

Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise.

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "e;floating population,"e; have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life.

This book focuses on drosophila as an especially useful model organism for exploring questions of evolutionary biology in the full range of evolutionary studies: population genetics, ecology, ecological genetics, speciation, phylogenetics, genome evolution, molecular evolution, and development.

Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it.

First published in 2000.

John Hannigan's definitive textbook offers a distinctive, balanced coverage of environmental issues, policies and action.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

Geography studies the relationship of humans and the natural environment, and these 40 essays examine those geographical events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st century.

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.

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How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

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This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country.

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

In today's changing world, all kinds of problems are plaguing people's thinking.

Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier.

We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together information previously buried in specialist sources and makes it available to the student in a non-technical and well-illustrated synthesis.

This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems.

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Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

Originally published in 1971 Evolution - Revolution is an interdisciplinary volume examining inquiry around the central topic of evolution and revolution.

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Ireland's response to the climate crisis.

To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks.

Explores how the law of the sea can develop in support of the objectives of the United Nations climate regime.