Social impact of environmental issues

The volume provides a timely, state of the art collection of studies examining climate change communication in the era of digital media.

The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention.

Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future.

This book introduces the various aspects of international farm animal protection and wildlife conservation through the lenses of food safety and environmental protection law.

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

This wide-ranging volume explores the tension between the dietary practice of veganism and the manifestation, construction, and representation of a vegan identity in today's society.

From the Foreword by Dr Valmond Ghyoot, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate, University of South Africa: The valuation profession, the legal profession, property industry participants in general and students will welcome publication of this book.

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

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.

Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities.

To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another.

The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy.

Travel journalism about natural attractions is environmental communication at the cusp of consumerism and concern.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries.

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies.

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations.

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life.

As culture is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucial element of sustainable development, design competence has emerged as a useful tool in creating a meaningful life within a sustainable mental, cultural and physical environment.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures.

Green Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe aims to explore the crucial role of green innovation in guiding organisations towards sustainable development amidst contemporary environmental challenges.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa.

In the aftermath of colonial occupation, Indigenous peoples have long fought to assert their sovereignty.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

First published in 1994.

This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate.

In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge.

First James Lovelock, and recently Prince William and David Attenborough believe that we have reached a tipping point in the process of climate change.

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue.

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

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 volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core.

Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems.

The rapid economic expansion and population growth of developing countries in Asia has led to increasing demands for water and energy.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters.

This book focuses on the often intertwined industries of coffee and tea, using accounts of single producer communities to highlight the transformation from plantation-style colonial agriculture towards systems that now claim to produce social and environmental benefits from the farm to the cup.