Social impact of environmental issues

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies.

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times *A TLS Book of the Year*We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it.

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*From the author of Spillover, the book that predicted the pandemic, Breathless is the story of Covid-19 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists tasked with fighting it.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE LEADING GUT-HEALTH EXPERT, FOUNDER OF ZOE AND AUTHOR OF FOOD FOR LIFE* As seen on ITV's LORRAINE and heard on THE DIARY OF A CEO *This ground-breaking exploration debunks food myths, from what we should be eating for breakfast to whether we should really avoid ultra-processed foods.

How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?

'The most effective ways for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint' INewsClimate Change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact.

Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.

Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.

No one illuminates the wonderful workings of the natural world as perceptively and enjoyably as Stephen Jay Gould.

We owe it to our fellow humans and other species to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.

We owe it to our fellow humans and other species to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

The story of Passenger Pigeon, and what we can learn from its demise 100 years ago.

Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes.

*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year.

Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.

This book investigates the range of conflicts over land and other natural resources in contemporary Zimbabwe, considering the different forms these conflicts take, and the ensuing outcomes.

This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

Combining innovative social theory with ongoing policy discussions on climate change, this book analyzes past and present efforts at challenging global poverty through reforming the dynamics of worldwide agricultural production.

This book reveals how pro environmental actions can boost individuals' and communities' psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing, resulting in positive environmental changes.

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks.

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South.

Desalination is to the water industry what renewables are to the electricity sector.

In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease.

Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

This book delves into Europe's urgent quest for energy independence as a foundation for the EU and national sovereignty, economic resilience and climate leadership.

As humanity sits at an existential crossroads, this book introduces the need to build a nature-positive future to secure the functioning and stability of Earth systems essential to the survival and wellbeing of present and future human generations as well as the rest of Earth's amazing diversity of life.

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?

Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"e;On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is.

This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability.

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

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

This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability.

Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making.

'Compelling' OBSERVER'Humphrys' level-headedness makes the arguments all the more powerful' SUNDAY TIMES'A concise, no-nonsense assessment of the true cost of cheap food: to the environment, the livestock, and the nation's long-term health' DAILY MAIL'A passionate discourse .

This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis.

For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy.

Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction is an overview of the diverse conceptual tools and traditions for thinking about, explaining and addressing the environmental challenges we face in the contemporary world.

The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities.

The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not.