Social impact of environmental issues

The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before.

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 explores how the media frame environmental and scientific disputes faced by American Indian communities.

Seit jeher löst Fleisch Kontroversen aus – sei es durch seine ressourcenintensive Gewinnung, die es zum Ausdruck für Wohlstand, Kraft und Gesundheit macht, oder sei es durch moralische Fragestellungen, die sich durch das Nutzen und Töten fühlender Lebewesen ergeben.

This accessible book challenges and provokes readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society.

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia's rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

Sir John Houghton''s definitive, full-colour guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming.

Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Environmental Criminology: Spatial Analysis and Regional Issues combines various academic perspectives to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to examining environmental criminology.

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge.

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

Overview of the cutting edge of research in environmental sociology, covering a broad range of theoretical approaches and empirical cases.

As climate change has increasingly become the main focus of environmentalist activism since the late 1990s, the global economic drivers of CO2 emissions are now a major concern for radical greens.

The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics.

This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil.

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like-and how they work-so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe.

Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize.

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) to reshape global climate governance and explore areas for mutual cooperation.

This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about climate policy.

This book engages with, and contests, the 'new sociology of nature'.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Placemaking: Production of Built Environment in Two Cultures is a book about the context of placemaking - the production of vernacular architecture and settlement.

Across the world each year events of every shape and size are held: from community events, school fairs and local business functions through to the world's largest festivals, music events, conferences and sporting events.

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes.

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.

This title, originally published in 1981, explores the difficult, and at times volatile, relationship between public choice and rural development in developing countries.

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food.

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.

Systemic change is required to move to a circular economy (CE) model which can meet the demands of a growing population in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and waste generation.

The first-and only-source to integrate the multiple disciplines and professions exploring the many ways people interact with the natural and designed environments in which we live.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

First published in 2000.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.

An original ''international political ecology'' analysis of the implications of climate change and water scarcity for twenty-first-century conflict and security.

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action.

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).

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

Challenges conservationists to rethink protecting the natural world; making political strategies central to increase support and influence.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide.

Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth.

First published in 1993.

The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world.