Social impact of environmental issues

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A.

An incisive look at the consequences of today's costly and damaging suburban lifestyle In The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, Bloomberg News' John Wasik exposes the economic, cultural, environmental, and health problems underlying life in suburbia.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism.

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India.

How do landscapes-defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations-contribute to the making of politics?

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), and particularly environmental management, has now become a global social norm.

Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides.

Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution.

There has been increasing concern over the impacts of 21st century challenges, be it on environmental, social, and economic aspect.

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other ';long problems' that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations.

This book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact.

This book, the first of its kind, seeks to demonstrate how 'SDG15 - Life on Land' can be implemented through effective biodiversity management, mainstreaming strategies and proposing solutions to achieve and consolidate the goals.

Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis.

In recent years, 'environmental collapse' has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems.

This book examines the nature of the 'energy curriculum' in Arctic Higher Education and provides invaluable data and new models to assess levels of Sustainable Development Literacy.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

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

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

Die Menschheit ist ungeheuer erfolgreich.

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change.

Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization.

The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change.

This book, at the intersection of early childhood and reconceptualizing practice, looks at how practitioners, theorists, and teachers are supporting young children to care about the environment differently.

This book presents a novel approach in the field of global change by presenting a comprehensive analysis of interhemispheric linkages of climate, present and past, and their effects on human societies.

From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published.

This book presents contemporary case studies on selected Italian food and wine products to explore how traditional production and consumption models address and adapt to the sustainability challenges in the Italian high-excellence agri-food sector.

Once imagined as a place on the very edge of the world, Greenland is now viewed as being at the epicentre of climate change.

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.

Viele Wissenschaftler hatten bereits vor dem Ukraine-Konflikt zur Vorsicht gemahnt, auf die Fülle unzutreffender Prognosen, auf die Grenzen von Modellbildungen und auf einen Faktor hingewiesen, der in den Klimamodellen bisher nur am Rande abgebildet wird: Das explosive Wachstum der Erdbevölkerung von einer Milliarde Menschen zu Beginn der Industrialisierung auf nunmehr sieben und in Zukunft auf zehn Milliarden Menschen.

Climate crisis disrupts the beliefs, values and behaviors of contemporary societies, sparking potential for radical changes in culture and consciousness.

First published in 1990.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

This book emphasizes how we already have the technologies available, including renewable energy and the ability to recycle most materials, to make ecological living possible and that perceived barriers to energy transitions can be overcome.

Circular Economy in the European Union: Organisational Practice and Future Directions in Germany, Poland and Spain presents the EU's journey towards a circular economy (CE), identifying significant organisational practices in this gradually adopted field among member countries.

Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture.

The first book to focus on the legal aspects of climate engineering, making recommendations for future laws and governance.

We analyze how human rights are made democratically and how they can be made with respect to environmental matters.