Social impact of environmental issues

Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans.

This edited collection brings together a selection of expert authors and draws on a wide range of case studies, geographies, and perspectives to explore the links between forced migration and energy access.

Originally published in 1985, Beth Rose's Appendix to the Rice Economy of Asia provides twenty-six tables detailing various rice statistics across Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the 1980's.

This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society.

Three decades of rapid industrialization until the lifting of martial law in 1987, with little or no concern for the environment, have made Taiwan's environmental degradation a serious problem.

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

'Crucially, this book bridges a gap in our understanding of how different societal sectors can be united to define roles, identify shared interests and devise strategies that complement progress towards more sustainable material use.

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change.

We owe it to our fellow humans and other species to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.

This book proposes transformative, realist methodology for skills research and planning through an analysis of case studies of the changing world of work, new learning pathways and educational system challenges.

The quality of the environment in which people live, work, and play influences to no small degree the quality of life itself.

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it.

Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water.

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 In this book practitioner and researcher Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as a distinctive type of applied art and performance practice that seeks tangible, therapeutic, and transformative real-world outcomes.

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom.

Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity.

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

First published in 1997, this book discusses the interplaying factors environmental issues have on justice and property and other social problems.

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate.

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

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil, and gas, which is only set to increase.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability.

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.

This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse.

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 In this book practitioner and researcher Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as a distinctive type of applied art and performance practice that seeks tangible, therapeutic, and transformative real-world outcomes.

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.

This handbook brings together the expertise of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the well-being, self-determination and sustainability of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

Find clarity on everyday green-living dilemmas to maximise your sustainabilityAre paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic?

Singularizing progressive time binds pasts, presents, and futures to cause-effect chains overdetermining existence in education and social life more broadly.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

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).

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind.

This handbook brings together the expertise of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the well-being, self-determination and sustainability of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

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

This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks.

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states.

In August 2003, one of the largest wildfires in Canadian history struck near Kelowna, British Columbia and the surrounding Okanagan Valley, causing  unprecedented  damage.

An interdisciplinary textbook that incorporates case material and theoretical tools for the Earth changers of today and tomorrow.

In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people?

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

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives.