Social impact of environmental issues

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

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

This book explores the concept of degrowth, beginning from a basic assumption, not of resource depletion, as is common in most literature in the field, but rather from a state of abundance, arguing that there is a vast amount of energy on the planet waiting to be utilized by all its inhabitants.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society.

This book provides the results of nine case studies of the course of social events in mineral exploration projects (mostly in Latin America).

An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation is designed to help practitioners and students of emergency management understand various aspects of the exercise design process.

This volume draws together a selection of high-quality presentations at the 13th International Bonhoeffer Congress held in January 2020 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves.

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature.

From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought.

First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain's 'Silicon Valley' along the M4 motorway.

From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought.

First published in 1991.

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

Managers of multinational organizations are struggling to win the strategic competition for the hearts and minds of external stakeholders.

Fashion, Upcycling, and Memory questions practices and explores its profound connection to memory and sustainability.

Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

A scientific exploration of changing climatic extremes and their impacts on society.

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Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger.

Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society.

Originally published in 1982, Biogeographical Processes is a concise introduction to biogeography aimed at undergraduate students.

This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellin (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South.

This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular.

Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality, large-scale migration.

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights?

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.

Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region.

Originally published in 1980, this book by a group of international lawyers and experts from the energy industries suggests ways in which the law may have to change to cope with developments in the oil and nuclear energy industries and the way they impact on marine pollution.

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology.

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

This special collection aims to offer insight into the state of geography on questions of social justice and urban life.

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture.

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, for researchers, professionals and advanced students.

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

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments.

This book presents a comprehensive, lucid, and accessible approach to environmental sociology.

In recent decades, science has experienced a revolutionary shift.

Explains how artificial intelligence methods can be used to aid conservation of wildlife, forests, coral reefs, rivers, and other natural resources.

Since UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Compact in 1999, over 12,000 organisations around the world have voluntarily adopted and promoted its values and Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and corruption.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.