Social impact of environmental issues

How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road.

Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene?

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace.

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.

Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda.

Social Ecology and Education addresses "e;ecological understanding"e; as a transformative educational issue: a learning response to emerging insights into social-ecological relationships and the future of life on our planet.

Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.

First published in 1985.

A pantoum about a child touching the smallpox-scarred face of an aunt; a dialogue between Jesus and Pilate in the form of a nursery rhyme; Joseph and Mary sleeping on the Sphinx's stone paw: these are some of the experiences brought before us in The Heronry.

"e;Public pressure and societal changes induce interventions and policies, which aim to transform agriculture and food provision.

Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction.

Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO), which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020.

Deep reductions in energy use and carbon emissions will not be possible within political economies that are driven by the capitalist imperatives of growth, commodification and individualization.

Ein Leben für die Natur: Dieter Kobus begeisterte sich seit frühester Jugend für Ornithologie und ist seitdem auch aktiv im Naturschutz tätig.

Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy.

Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.

This book explores the critical role of urban food production in strengthening communities and in building ecosocialism.

Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United States.

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of "e;weird"e; and "e;fantastic"e; literature and culture.

Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE) is a complex mix of policy and practicality, educational theory and pedagogy, classroom and government policy.

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Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance.

This book looks at how to build more resilience into socio-economic networks within local communities.

While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global perspective.

Overview of how decisions by China on climate, energy, and environmental policy will influence the country''s capacity to decarbonize.

This second edition of Pragmatic Sustainability proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.

This book investigates energy access through the lens of everyday energy practices in the Gambian community of Kartong.

The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of "e;the nexus"e; between water, food, and energy which is intuitively compelling.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

The book develops the concept of environmental violence as a potent tool to identify, track, reduce environmental threats to humanity.

An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural icon.

This book offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental threat.

For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world.

This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.

This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy.

This book focuses on the economics of smart meters and is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering.

Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

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

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions.

This book is the first legal geography book to explicitly engage in method.

The growing global demand for food, feed and bio-based renewable material is changing the conditions for agricultural production worldwide.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.