Social impact of environmental issues

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law.

Do scientists expect the number and severity of extreme weather events to increase in a warming world?

This timely and innovative book delves into the complex interplay of human activities and natural limits in generating today's sustainability challenges.

Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes.

Rekordtemperaturen, Dürre-Katastrophen und Starkregenereignisse treten heute immer häufiger auf, so dass die Folgen des Klimawandels im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein immer präsenter werden und nicht mehr zu verharmlosen sind.

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies.

Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens.

This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology, which advocates for rethinking human and non-human relationships within our ecosystems, by promoting the inherent and earned worth of all beings.

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Die Menschheit steht vor groen Herausforderungen, denn es bestehen berechtigte Sorgen, dass ihr Naturverhaltnis nicht zukunftsfahig ist.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

This edited collection investigates topics related to environmental humanities through their inclusion, exploration, or critique in contemporary video games.

This edited collection investigates topics related to environmental humanities through their inclusion, exploration, or critique in contemporary video games.

To want to save the planet , a person has to have a sense of belonging in it What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, including environmental anthropology, philosophy, ethics, literature, history, science and technology studies, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene.

The impacts of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, affecting every country regardless of geographical location.

'Consummate and thorough' - The Times'Darkly entertaining' - The SpectatorA superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.

The impacts of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, affecting every country regardless of geographical location.

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

Forced migration always takes place within specific cultural, social, political, and spatial environments.

This major synoptic work explores some of the most important questions facing humanity in the coming generations.

This major synoptic work explores some of the most important questions facing humanity in the coming generations.

The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.

Why did the place of formerly powerful Eurasian land empires, like that of Iran, change so dramatically in global affairs over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology, which advocates for rethinking human and non-human relationships within our ecosystems, by promoting the inherent and earned worth of all beings.

This book reveals how pro environmental actions can boost individuals' and communities' psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing, resulting in positive environmental changes.

Why did the place of formerly powerful Eurasian land empires, like that of Iran, change so dramatically in global affairs over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront.

How do we listen to the earth?

Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication.

Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving.

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

Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene offers a series of thought-provoking chapters about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives.

In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.

*Winner of the 'Research of the Year' award at the 2025 Sport Positive Awards*This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity.

Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology.

With the current climate and economic crises, education for sustainability has never been more critical.