Social impact of environmental issues

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.

Comprehensive look communicating climate change for researchers and professionals in environmental policy and science communication.

Provides a working knowledge of sustainable business development and its key methods and techniques.

Original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy.

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

A description of the transformations in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century.

A comprehensive analysis of natural resource use and economic development in poor countries, first published in 2005.

This 2005 book analyzes how natural resources, social infrastructure, and institutions might be optimally sustained.

Comprehensive review of hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, for practitioners and scientists.

Merges forefront research from different disciplines into a common framework for new insights on sustainability.

This book examines the impact of globalisation on global public health issues and policy.

In this book, prominent authors discuss what changes must occur to ensure a successful transition to sustainability.

This book explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states.

Transforming Education for Sustainable Development documents and disseminates learning around education for sustainable development and associated pedagogical approaches, techniques, and experiences that have been generated across the Master of Development Practice (MDP) Global Association over the past 12 years.

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.

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.

This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time.

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film.

Spatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area.

A behind-the-scenes exposure why our electricity system is headed for a state of emergency-and what can be done to head it off Most people don't realize that skyrocketing global energy demand and economic growth severely affect the supply of electricity.

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

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

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "e;constitutional culture"e; to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations that govern the collective life within a jurisdiction.

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "e;constitutional culture"e; to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations that govern the collective life within a jurisdiction.