Social impact of environmental issues

The mobilization of people, populations, and places-and the social interrelations of space and time, memory and longing, and the global and local-are uniquely analyzed in this fascinating study.

In September 2015, at the United Nations, world leaders agreed on seventeen Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs.

Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined Contribution to the global response to climate change.

Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment InMatter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies.

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.

Originally published in 1988 Deforestation examines deforestation as a major environmental and development problem.

How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds?

The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth's ecosystems.

Recent scholarship on children's literature displays a wide variety of interests in classic and contemporary children's books.

The book describes the results of the AGaStor Project's social research carried out in northwestern Poland which recognizes the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to society.

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it.

This book focuses on the impact of monetary policy and food price volatility and inflation in emerging and developing economies.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.

The Concept of Milieu in Environmental Ethics discusses how we can come together to address current environmental problems at the planetary level, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, transborder pollution and desertification.

This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse.

This interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century.

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

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings-before, during and after catastrophic events-through physical activity and sporting practices.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

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 a clear and wide-ranging overview of consumption as a sociological concept.

Without focusing entirely on what is wrong with the world around us, the third edition of Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that persist and examines current controversies within a socio-organizational context.

Cultural and spiritual bonds with 'nature' are among the strongest motivators for nature conservation; yet they are seldom taken into account in the governance and management of protected and conserved areas.

Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices.

Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining.

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.

Revealing the gender, class, race and species inequalities that have made the Anthropocene, this Element offers tools for undoing it.

In the coming decade, we may see the advent of multinational federalism on an international scale.

This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia.

Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are implemented and enforced, and the impact they have had since their passing in the twentieth century and their continued applications.

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear, causal mechanisms.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

The book fills a void by bringing together literature in an under-represented but disaster-prone region - Southeast Asia.

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers' attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices.

Climate change and social inequity are both sprawling, insidious forces that threaten populations around the world.

High energy prices affect nearly the whole of the American population, arguably affecting some consumer groups more than others.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

Originally published in 1988, Conservation at Home looks at practical methods of conservation that can be carried out within the home.

Just what we need to get the job done - Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallAre you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment?

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceausescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

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

The Conservation of Violence explores the governance of protected forests in Zimbabwe, highlighting the structural and operational mechanism through which violent tactics are produced, employed, and sustained to promote nature conservation.

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America.