Social impact of environmental issues

An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.

This book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice.

This interdisciplinary collection examines social equity and environmental justice in India.

Originally published in 1987, this book showcases global examples of people and communities who are learning to use the world's resources without despoiling them for future generations.

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "e;accidental wilderness"e; on Toronto's lakeshore.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland.

Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North.

This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.

Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an environmental crisis.

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and the practice of toxicity testing.

This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing these problems.

The author is a sociologist who has written extensively on human rights and recently on climate change.

Originally published in 1972, Minority Perspectives is the second in a series exploring metropolitan problems within the government structure.

Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers.

This book describes how, as a species our survival and capacity to flourish depends on realizing the intimate relationship of humans with nature through active, embodied participation with nature.

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policymaking to achieve mainstream solar energy in small, tropical islands.

An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

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.

In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.

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

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production.

In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

The quality of the environment in which people live, work, and play influences to no small degree the quality of life itself.

From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.

This book follows environmental changes-including those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstances-and provides a process to manage their impact on the future.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures.

Climate change poses multiple challenges to development.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process.

This book examines leadership and management in natural resources, drawing on literature, principles, and the author's own experiences as a leader and activist.

Originally published in 1995, this book brings together material from many sources and offers a balanced appreciation of the ways in which climatic changes can interact with society.

This volume presents twenty updated and new theories oftravelers decisions and behaviors.

This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal.

This book explores the field of environmental studies emphasizing its multidisciplinary nature.

This book gives a special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives, and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations, and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development.

Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct.

Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to sustainable levels within ecological limits.