Social impact of environmental issues

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.

Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system?

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery.

Originally published in 1973 and based on papers published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, this book discusses the impact of road vehicles on the environment.

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability.

Introduces the philosophical issues which ecology poses about the biological world and the environmental sciences attempting to protect it.

Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology.

First published in 1992.

Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas.

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern.

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation.

Ollie Hunter is back with his second book, Join the Greener Revolution.

Verzicht ist in etwa so beliebt, wie Zahnschmerzen zu haben.

A step-by-step guide to animal communication, connecting with your primal mind, and immersing yourself in Nature*; Includes exercises for learning how to become invisible within Nature, sense hidden animals, and communicate with wild animals and birds*; Explains how to approach wild animals and form friendships with them*; Details the intuitive awareness of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and their innate oneness with NatureAnimals and plants are in constant communication with the world around them.

Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today's global crisis *; Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature *; Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the world's peoples *; Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDukeFor millennia the world's indigenous peoples have acted as guardians of the web of life for the next seven generations.

Verzicht ist in etwa so beliebt, wie Zahnschmerzen zu haben.

En un contexto donde se agudiza el cambio climatico y crece la urgencia de buscar la transformacion de paradigmas en todos los quehaceres, la identidad de la educacion ambiental (EA) esta lejos de ser un capitulo cerrado.

Das große Universum der kleinen PartikelWenn wir über Staub sprechen, dann gibt es meist ein Problem: Hausstaub löst Allergien aus, Feinstaub belastet die Stadtluft, Aerosole transportieren gefährliche Viren.

For millennia, we lived in harmony with the Earth, taking only what we required to survive.

¿Quién dijo que en la selva ecuatoriana no hay elefantes?

'Root to Stem is a seasonal and holistic approach to health that puts plants, herbs and nature at the heart of how we live and eat.

Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human consumption has caused the extinction of countless species and neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarization of mainstream politics.

While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities.

An in-depth look at the role of plant spirits in shamanic rituals from around the world *; Shows how shamans heal using their knowledge of plant spirits as well as the plant's ';medical properties' *; Explores the core methods of plant shamanism--soul retrieval, spirit extraction, and sin eating--and includes techniques for connecting with plant spirits *; Includes extensive field interviews with master shamans of all traditions In Plant Spirit Shamanism, Ross Heaven and Howard G.

For millennia, we lived in harmony with the Earth, taking only what we required to survive.

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.

'An inspirational manifesto for change' Caroline Lucas, former leader of The Green Party 'A remarkable and important book' Steve Backshall, Naturalist, Broadcaster, and Author'Astute, erudite and crystalline, Bella writes with visionary clarity and passion [.

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist.

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.

In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America's energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin.

Una explicación brillante, sintética y accesible de los límites del paradigma de la sostenibilidad (y qué puede hacerse al respecto).

Wie gerecht kann eine Welt in der Klimakrise sein?

In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin.

In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin.

Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Z calo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we liveWe are facing a species emergency.