Social impact of environmental issues

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.

With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades.

The goal of this series, which reviews new theoretical ideas and frameworks, is to stimulate discussion and outline progress in evolutionary studies.

This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions.

Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide identifies the principal challenges that scientists face when communicating with different stakeholder groups and offers advice on how to navigate the maze of competing interests and deliver actionable science when the clock is ticking.

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

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps.

This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Ireland's response to the climate crisis.

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the "e;question of being"e; over the environmental question and the concern for the conditions of life.

The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from searching through the massive quantity of information of differing degrees of quality that is available through the Internet.

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia - a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters.

Contemporary Earth and animal activists rarely collaborate, perhaps because environmentalists focus on species and ecosystems, while animal advocates look to the individual, and neither seems to have much respect for the other.

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

"e;How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change?

Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond.

Desalination is to the water industry what renewables are to the electricity sector.

Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern.

Sustainability is a pressing concern for people and governments around the world, but it is also an essentially contested concept that requires an understanding of the stakes, trade-offs, and complex politics at play.

This book examines whether international law has an impact on the protection of the Amazon.

Packed with useful information, this is an essential resource for anyone thinking of setting up and running a community energy project.

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.

We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth.

In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada.

Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time.

Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world.

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities and the long-term impact on emotional health.

Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth-using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia?

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

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?

The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology was the first comprehensive and international anthology dedicated to green criminology.

In this groundbreaking book, Renee Lertzman applies psychoanalytic theory and psychosocial research to the issue of public engagement and public apathy in response to chronic ecological threats.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

La crisis ambiental es un efecto del conocimiento -verdadero o falso-, sobre lo real, sobre la materia, sobre el mundo.

The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world.

This collection pays unique attention to the highly challenging problems of addressing inequality within decarbonisation - particularly under-explored aspects, such as high consumption, degrowth approaches and perverse outcomes.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing, and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia.

A truly vegan lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, it's the shoes on your feet, the clothes in your wardrobe, the contents of your cupboards and your make-up bag.