Social impact of environmental issues

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system?

Human health is facing unprecedented threats from global environmental change.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions.

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

Utopia in the Anthropocene takes a cross-disciplinary approach to analyse our current world problems, identify the key resistance to change and take the reader step by step towards a more sustainable, equitable and rewarding world.

This book is a critical exploration of motorsport's contribution to 'the green transition', understood as a societal shift towards a fossil-free future, a circular economy, and greater social inclusiveness.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

Collective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding.

This book shows how bringing together experts from the Global South and the Global North can help us to understand and combat global economic, political, and social inequalities.

This volume explores mindfulness and other contemplative approaches as strategic tools for cultivating anti-oppressive pedagogies in higher education.

Examines perceptions of the natural world in ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period to the twentieth century.

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge.

The Politics of Environmental Reform demonstrates how environmental laws affect local governments with Kentucky strip mining as its core example.

The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world.

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize.

The first comprehensive review of the interaction between climate change and migration; for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

How do we listen to the earth?

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

Many ways of thinking about and living with 'the environment' have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition.

As the United States continues its slow climb out of the Great Recession, it is important to focus on new directions to improve the standard of living in America.

On one day in 2009, in thirty-eight countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy.

Never in history has life been so complicated and full of sudden changes.

First published in 1994.

Natural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being.

According to the laws of conservation of mass and energy, matter cannot be created or destroyed.

Water Crises and Governance critically examines the relationship between water crises and governance in the face of challenges to provide water for growing human demand and environmental needs.

This book examines examples of rural regeneration projects through the public administration lens, analysing how governance arrangements in rural settings work.

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

This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes.

The End of the Developmental State?

Can religious people save the environment?

Following Spinoza's lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact.

This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia, drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up-to-date resource available.

Arts Programming for the Anthropocene argues for a role for the arts as an engaged, professional practice in contemporary culture, charting the evolution of arts over the previous half century from a primarily solitary practice involved with its own internal dialogue to one actively seeking a larger discourse.

Every four days there are a million more people on the planet.

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the overarching goal of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn essential read.

Interdisciplinary anthology of 53 foundational readings on socio-environmental research with expert commentary and links to contemporary scholarship.

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface.

Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to near-synchronous world and environmental problems.

Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies?

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change.

As the Earth's oil supply runs out, and the effects of climate change threaten nations and their populations, the search for carbon-neutral sources of energy becomes more important and increasingly urgent.