Social impact of environmental issues

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

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 edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change?

The authoritative assessment of the many climate change impacts on allergens and allergic diseases, for researchers, clinicians, students.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability.

Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans.

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

A cutting-edge analysis of the key issues and policy options facing future global climate governance, written by leading world experts.

We have forgotten how to think about limits.

This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states'' reliance on desalination plants, for researchers and policy makers.

This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US.

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today's business and society.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.

This book gives a special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives, and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations, and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development.

This Element summarizes the impacts of climate change on children''s healthy development and highlights critical areas for action.

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.

This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them.

Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee effectively the concept in their laws and practices.

An analysis of the normative prerequisites for addressing the challenges of democratic earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

What does it mean to bring Asia into conversation with current literature on everyday multiculturalism?

This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973.

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

Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking.

Environmental journalism is an increasingly significant area for study within the broader field of journalism studies.

Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions.

Over the last two decades, "e;green criminology"e; has emerged as a unique area of study, bringing together criminologists and sociologists from a wide range of research backgrounds and varying theoretical orientations.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

In recent decades, science has experienced a revolutionary shift.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

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

The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish.

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.

This volume presents twenty updated and new theories oftravelers decisions and behaviors.

How can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere?

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

With the sustainability emergency, businesses can no longer give priority to commercial interests (and financial gains) and close their eyes to societal and environmental interests.

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.

We are at the beginning of the sustainability era.

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the overarching goal of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

Originally published in 1985, this volume of essays was compiled in honour of Gordon Manley, a major and distinctive twentieth-century figure in climatology.

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

'Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen' Sunday Times'Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping .

Originally published in 1983, Broadman and Montgomery present an agenda for further research into deregulated natural gas markets by relating natural gas production, transmission and distribution with the economic function of contracts and local distribution companies.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

One of the major considerations of any environmental resource project must be the effect on human well-being; originally published in 1979, this study aims to deal specifically with the transmission of Schistosomiasis as a human environmental impact.