Social impact of environmental issues

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance.

Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians.

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized.

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where 'alternative' food practices are increasingly visible.

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research.

Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

An accessible synthesis of a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making.

First published in 1991, Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of a wide variety of traditional plant foods used by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada.

This volume examines the role of communication in contributing to and contesting the current climate crisis.

"Wenn unsere Kinder eine Zukunft haben wollen, muss die Generation 50+ dringend mit ins Boot.

This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice.

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media.

This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media.

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

'My hope is that people can grow to appreciate this sector - its challenges and opportunities, but most importantly, the role agriculture can play in improving South Africa's rural economy, creating jobs and bringing about much-needed transformation (or inclusive growth).

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "e;holiday hunger"e; in the United Kingdom.

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

An original ''international political ecology'' analysis of the implications of climate change and water scarcity for twenty-first-century conflict and security.

This book argues for a broader approach to sustainable growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship, Canada in Question delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.

Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat.

While the number of publications on corporate social responsibility has skyrocketed since the last economic crisis that began in 2008, challenges still remain in the modern economy that make socially responsible business a leading topic both in the field of science and business practice.

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards.

Agricultural Policies in a New Decade was written in preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill in the United States in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Committee of the National Planning Association.

This book unfolds a vision for philosophical theology centered on the practices of the care of the self, the city, and creation.

This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives.

Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools.

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York.

This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity.

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia.

Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally relevant and emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving.

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales.

This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation.

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.

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes.

This book reveals how concerns about nuclear reactors made ordinary people into environmentalists and promoted democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.

This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.

Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole - encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity.

Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience - the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India.

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature.

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "e;highly visible"e; disasters and several slow-burning, "e;hidden,"e; crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change.