Social impact of environmental issues

The apocalyptic visions of climate change that are projected in the media often involve extreme weather events, disasters and mass migration of poor people.

This book explores the nexus between children, media, and nature during a time of planetary crisis marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

Is climate catastrophe inevitable?

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society, with ecological integrity as a major theme.

This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South.

With the current climate and economic crises, education for sustainability has never been more critical.

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This book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change.

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

As the fourth report in a series on the Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Reform as Reorganization explores the welfare and development of metropolitan America in terms of political reorganization.

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

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today.

Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value.

DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972.

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

This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil.

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.

Despite the fame Ted Hughes's poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children's literature.

One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration.

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Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

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

The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus.

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history.

Contemporary society is dependent on man's ability to work fundamental changes in the natural environment.

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

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators.

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways.

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment.

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.

Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means to mimic nature with technology.

Originally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age.

In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now in a "e;stakeholder democracy,"e; which is working to strengthen represented democracy in a time of fear.

Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.

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

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

This book critically investigates the pervasiveness of anthropomorphised animals in popular culture.

DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972.

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

Why doesn't everyone see sustainability as a huge issue?

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching challenges related to the ethical and political dimension of environmental and sustainability education.

This book examines the methods and approaches currently being taken by the global community of youth in influencing environmental policymakers of the United Nations.