Social impact of environmental issues

This edited collection focuses on theoretical and applied research-based observations concerning how experts, advocates, and institutions make climate change information accessible to different audiences.

This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention.

Design Realities explores a wide range of topics on creativity, design and spiritual well-being.

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on 'green' film and television production.

This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazards to their embodiment in enforceable laws.

Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities.

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the 'success' of social organisations, projects and activities.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international diplomacy, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of multilateralism.

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

The Nation Looks at its Resources records the key points of the Mid-Century Conference on Resources for the Future held in Washington in 1953.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

In preparation for the United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have been considered at the conference.

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

Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development.

We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions.

This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of demography to a nonhuman species.

Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.

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

Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

In The Green Leap to an Inclusive Economy, two leading thinkers, Stuart L.

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.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers' attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices.

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle.

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.

Every movement has its bellweathers, the ideas that lead the way and rally its adherents towards a set of shared values and visions.

This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as science communication, art history, pop cultural studies, environmental studies, sciences studying ice and artists to explore the power of (popular) arts and aesthetics to communicate ice research and the urgency of environmental action.

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

This book analyses the intersections between contemporary art and environmental activism in Indonesia.

Explains how communities and ecosystems everywhere can be strengthened to survive climate chaos.

This book explores the interplay between intergenerational justice and intragenerational justice using nuclear waste management as a consistent case to explore these themes.

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today.

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies.

Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving.

Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides.

The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

In this timely exploration of sustainable actions, Christian Berg unpacks the complexity in understanding the barriers we face in moving towards a sustainable future, providing solution perspectives for every level, from individuals to governments and supra-national organizations offering a lucid vision of a long-term and achievable goal for sustainability.

In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A.