Social impact of environmental issues

Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements argues that multiple contemporary converging crises have significantly altered the context for and object of political contestations around agrarian, climate, environmental and food justice issues.

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society.

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society.

This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic.

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.

Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector.

Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector.

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

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry.

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry.

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

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion.

First published in 1993.

First published in 1995.

First published in 1994.

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion.

The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design.

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

We are becoming increasingly aware and engaged in environmental issues, but it's not always clear what the solutions are and how we can do our bit.

This book is a call to action.

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge.

Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation.

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments.

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges.

Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland.

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically.

"e;Sustainable Justice and the Community"e; is an attempt to locate justice in a workable and sustainable way within the community, introducing 'Sustainable Justice' as a key concept for the coming century.

Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries.

For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors.

Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene offers a series of thought-provoking chapters about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives.

When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival?

Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology.

How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice.

Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina's Gran Chaco region.

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time.

In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality.

Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature.

One farmworker tells of the soil that would "e;bite"e; him, but that was the chemicals burning his skin.

Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "e;floating population,"e; have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life.

Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is still a highly national matter.