Social impact of environmental issues

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures.

We are at an environmental impasse.

This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities.

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s.

Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism.

This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being.

This book places the contemporary fear of climate change in historical perspective, showing that throughout human history the dominant perspective on the future has been one of fear.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention.

Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature's Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of nature.

The book is a seminal contribution from a leading futurist who, over the past three decades, has explored each of the most disruptive forces shaping our world today, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, venture investments, and industrial manufacturing.

Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes.

Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when they are weakened by the absence of their members?

Using the principles of John Rawls' theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future.

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract.

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime.

Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

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

An analysis of the challenge that India''s poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology''s creation of a public role for science.

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

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

Winner: The 2001 Frederick Milton Thrasher Award (awarded by the National Gang Crime Research Center)Youth violence and youth gangs are serious social problems.

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

Crimes Against Nature provides a systematic account and analysis of the key concerns of green criminology, written by one of the leading authorities in the field.

The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

This book examines the multiple scales at which the inequities of climate change are borne out.

This book deals with the potentials of social-ecological systems analysis for resolving sustainability problems.

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "e;common ground"e; - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity.

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In this challenging and highly original book, the author tackles the dynamic relationships between physical nature and societies over time.

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.

Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds?

Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination.

This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development.

An exploration of the legal features compatibility with the theories of social-ecological resilience and their applicability for effective governance frameworks.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

Hydroids of the Pacific Coast of Canada and the United States is an attempt to give a brief description, with figures, of every hydroid species known to occur along the Pacific Coast of Canada and the United States, together with its distribution within this area.

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis.

Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices.