Social impact of environmental issues

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

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

Unique summary of the environmental impact of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for researchers, nuclear engineers and policymakers.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

Analysing how contemporary fiction explores climate change, Johns-Putra argues that literature can help us understand our obligations to the future.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

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

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

Provides an overview of the important role that environmental experts play at the science-policy interface, and the complex challenges they face.

An accessible synthesis of a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making.

A review of the evidence underpinning the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the Anthropocene Working Group investigating it.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

An authoritative review of the ecology of forest birds and their conservation issues throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

Human health is facing unprecedented threats from global environmental change.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

Examines how ecosystems can collapse as a result of human activity, and the ecological processes underlying their subsequent recovery.

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

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the ''Anthropocene''.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

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

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

Examines the problem of poaching of elephants for ivory and looks into the factors that propagate it.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the ''Anthropocene''.

An authoritative review of the ecology of forest birds and their conservation issues throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

A review of the evidence underpinning the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the Anthropocene Working Group investigating it.

Examines how ecosystems can collapse as a result of human activity, and the ecological processes underlying their subsequent recovery.

An overview of the obstacles to effective climate governance, including international relations, national politics and psychosocial factors.

An overview of the obstacles to effective climate governance, including international relations, national politics and psychosocial factors.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

Offers a multidisciplinary edited volume on policy dimensions of climate change for the world''s oceans, for researchers, policymakers and activists.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

A comprehensive, global review of the impact ships have on the environment, covering pollutant discharges, non-pollutant impacts and international legislation.

A comprehensive, global review of the impact ships have on the environment, covering pollutant discharges, non-pollutant impacts and international legislation.

Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.

Big picture of how humanity can thrive in the twenty-first century; a book of realistic hope from a leading environmental author.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

Analyses voluntary programs for sustainable buildings and cities, a prominent strategy to mitigate climate change.

This book reveals how concerns about nuclear reactors made ordinary people into environmentalists and promoted democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s.

This book reveals how concerns about nuclear reactors made ordinary people into environmentalists and promoted democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s.