Social impact of environmental issues

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversyShale gas extraction-commonly known as fracking-is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics.

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversyShale gas extraction-commonly known as fracking-is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics.

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services.

This unique text offers a holistic, insightful and timely exploration of sustainable practices across the fashion industry.

This unique text offers a holistic, insightful and timely exploration of sustainable practices across the fashion industry.

This book explores the impact of population aging on energy use patterns in society from both a theoretical and an empirical angle, with a specific focus on Japan and Spain.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research.

Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises.

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?

Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed-more than 125,000 years ago.

Colonized as early as 13,500 years ago, the Northern Channel Islands of California offer some of the earliest evidence of human habitation along the west coast of North America.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

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

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

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

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

A comprehensive 2010 summary of interdisciplinary social methods and research strategies for analysis of the complex relationship between environments and societies.

This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues.

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

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

The book is a seminal contribution from a leading futurist who, over the past three decades, has explored each of the most disruptive forces shaping our world today, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, venture investments, and industrial manufacturing.

A comprehensive 2010 summary of interdisciplinary social methods and research strategies for analysis of the complex relationship between environments and societies.

Shows how nonprofit organizations and NGOs can demonstrate that they are using their funds appropriately and delivering on their promises.

Explores why transnational advocacy movements for global causes succeed in some cases but fail in others.

First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment.

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

How can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere?

Shows how nonprofit organizations and NGOs can demonstrate that they are using their funds appropriately and delivering on their promises.

Explores why transnational advocacy movements for global causes succeed in some cases but fail in others.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

How can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere?

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice.

Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO), which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.

First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment.

Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO), which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice.

A scientific exploration of changing climatic extremes and their impacts on society.

Solutions for the World''s Biggest Problems analyses the world''s twenty-three biggest problems and possible solutions.

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the mitigation of climate change for researchers, students, and policymakers.

Review of future climate change for life sciences and environmental science students, and policy-makers.

This 2007 book explores environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which the law is drawn.

A fascinating and detailed study of the effect of natural disasters on humanity.

Written for undergraduates, graduates in atmospheric and environmental science, this 2007 text examines impacts on the Earth''s climate.