Social impact of environmental issues

AS FEATURED IN BBC TWO'S BILLION DOLLAR DOWNFALL: THE DEALMAKER DOCUMENTARYTwo Wall Street reporters investigate the man entrusted with millions to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds in history.

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me.

Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human consumption has caused the extinction of countless species and neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarization of mainstream politics.

'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems.

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences.

How have sociologists responded to the emergence of environmentalism?

From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways.

From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.

We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

Be it fair trade coffee or foreign oil, our choices as consumers affect the well-being of humans around the globe, not to mention the natural world and of course ourselves.

Be it fair trade coffee or foreign oil, our choices as consumers affect the well-being of humans around the globe, not to mention the natural world and of course ourselves.

In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually.

Adapting to a Changing Environment provides tools and a theoretical framework for governments and managers to understand and confront the consequences of climate change.

How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?

In recent decades the global wind energy industry has undergone explosive growth, and there is still vast potential for wind to supply more of the world's energy.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades.

When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than two sides to every story.

Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient.

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse.

Never in history has life been so complicated and full of sudden changes.

Few people know that nearly 100 native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished.

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence.

Standardized methods and measurements are crucial for ecological research, particularly in long-term ecological studies where the projects are by nature collaborative and where it can be difficult to distinguish signs of environmental change from the effects of differing methodologies.

Some trees and birds are made for each other.

Hailed as "e;one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West"e; by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history.

In this work, George C.

This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of demography to a nonhuman species.

This collection of reviews by leading investigators examines plant reproduction and sexuality within a framework of evolutionary ecology, providing an up-to-date account of the field.

One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals.

One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals.

The Anolis lizards of the Caribbean are ideally suited for the study of evolutionary ecology.

The goal of this series, which reviews new theoretical ideas and frameworks, is to stimulate discussion and outline progress in evolutionary studies.

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.

The apparent decline in numbers among many species of migratory songbirds is a timely subject in conservation biology, particularly for ornithologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers.

Despite the depiction of nature "e;red in tooth and claw,"e; cooperation is actually widespread in the animal kingdom.

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson.

In Tropical Forest Ecology, Egbert G.

Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common side of scientific research.

In just the last few years, behavioral ecologists have begun to address issues in conservation biology.

This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

Two of the great mysteries of biology yet to be explored concern the distribution and abundance of genetic variation in natural populations and the genetic architecture of complex traits.