The environment

The global climate crisis is one of the most defining challenges of our time, with profound implications not just for the environment, but also for human health.

The global climate crisis is one of the most defining challenges of our time, with profound implications not just for the environment, but also for human health.

The ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015 by all members of the United Nations, contains a pledge that "e;no one will be left behind.

Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived?

Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived?

Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death.

Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century.

Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia.

Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.

In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment.

Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are bound inextricably with fossil fuel consumption.

Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways?

Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia.

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards.

What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle?

One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized.

The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources.

In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Saez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework.

Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism.

This book examines the recent intersection of national security and public health regarding biological threats to the U.

An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters caused by climate change in their novels and films.

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories.

Since 2008, energy and food markets those most fundamental to human existence have remained in turmoil.

No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change.

The ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015 by all members of the United Nations, contains a pledge that "e;no one will be left behind.

Building water resilience is the single biggest challenge in a changing global climate.

The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.

A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "e;Sustainable Development Goals,"e; to be achieved by 2030.

Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.

How is water scarcity becoming a serious problem worldwide-including in the United States?

Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today.

An engaging and at times sobering look at the coexistence of humans and animals in the 21st century and how their sometimes disparate needs affect environments, politics, economies, and culture worldwide.

Through case studies, opposing viewpoints, and primary documents, this reference work examines the environmental and sustainability issues regarding water as well as how water is an intrinsic part of human culture.

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world's fish.

This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present.

The ability to access and economically develop vast amounts of America's unconventional natural gas resources, especially large shale gas formations, has altered our national view on energy and has subsequently changed the discourse at the federal, state, and local levels.

Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters.

This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide.

For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other.

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time.

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This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore the associated impacts for the sake of technological, scientific, military, and economic expediency.

A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complex issues surrounding energy generation and use, this one-of-a-kind resource clarifies everything from the basic structure of the industry to the potential-and risks-of new technologies.

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a "e;tabularasa"e; to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States-and suggests how their influence can be reduced.

Climate change is one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of the 21st century.

Through case studies, opposing viewpoints, and primary documents, this reference work examines the environmental and sustainability issues regarding water as well as how water is an intrinsic part of human culture.