Social impact of environmental issues

Sustainability is a topic of great interest today, particularly for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which have witnessed very rapid economic and demographic growth over the past decade.

Why do affluent consumers almost automatically acquire new versions or variations of products already at their disposal?

Why do affluent consumers almost automatically acquire new versions or variations of products already at their disposal?

Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs.

Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs.

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts.

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance.

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.

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.

Women and Nature?

Women and Nature?

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

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

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels.

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels.

Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change affecting marine social and ecological systems around the world.

Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change affecting marine social and ecological systems around the world.

A deepening ecological crisis is rearing its head in sub-Saharan Africa, as it faces a myriad of challenges in regards to the development of its energy sector.

A deepening ecological crisis is rearing its head in sub-Saharan Africa, as it faces a myriad of challenges in regards to the development of its energy sector.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions.

The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions.

Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival?

Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival?

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

Transition to sustainability is stuck and academic research has not resulted in significant change so far.

Transition to sustainability is stuck and academic research has not resulted in significant change so far.

Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world.

Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society.

Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society.

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century.

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century.

Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization.

When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization.

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the 'success' of social organisations, projects and activities.

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the 'success' of social organisations, projects and activities.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment.

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives.

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives.

Science and Nature brings together the work and insights of historian Carolyn Merchant on the history of science, environmental history, and ethics.