Social impact of environmental issues books

3072 books were found.

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

Author: Jenell Johnson (Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780271094571
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze,...  Read More >>

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

Author: Jenell Johnson (Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780271094564
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze,...  Read More >>

The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a...

Author: Andy McPhee
ISBN: 9780822966715
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Thorough account of Donora’s six-day smog event addressing both the causes and effects of the disaster.  Read More >>

A Political Ecology of Kenya’s Mau Forest: The Land, the Trees, and the People

A Political Ecology of Kenya’s Mau Forest: The Land,...

Author: Dr Lisa Elena Fuchs (Female Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre for Forestry Research (CIFOR) – World Agroforestry (ICRAF))
ISBN: 9781847013477
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A timely and important examination of the environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic,...  Read More >>

The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist...

Author: Simon Clark ,  Will Louch
ISBN: 9780241988947
Format: Paperback
$24.99

How Arif Naqvi Duped The Global Elite Arif Naqvi was a man with immeasurable dreams- to end world suffering, poverty...  Read More >>

Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change

Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual...

Author: Linda Aspey ,  Catherine Jackson
ISBN: 9781915220271
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Global heating, catastrophic climate change, ecosystem damage and species extinction hang over us all. In this book...  Read More >>

Maritime Professions: Issues and Perspectives

Maritime Professions: Issues and Perspectives

Author: Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś ,  Frank Sowa
ISBN: 9789004518858
Format: Hardback
$398.64

Sociological research on maritime professions offers new insights in work at sea.  Read More >>

Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film

Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological...

Author: Professor Maria Stehle (Customer)
ISBN: 9781640141254
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms...  Read More >>

Adaptive Governance to Manage Human Mobility and Natural Resource Stress

Adaptive Governance to Manage Human Mobility and Natural...

Author: Saleem H. Ali (University of Delaware) ,  Martin Clifford (University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9781009357722
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear,...  Read More >>

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
ISBN: 9781982102500
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, a revolutionary exploration of animal rights, ethics, and law.  Read More >>

Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries: Guidelines for Appraisal of Environmental Health Impacts

Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries: Guidelines for...

Author: Katherine von Stackelberg ,  Pamela Williams
ISBN: 9781464818202
Format: Paperback
$110.75

This framework document provides a practical approach for designing representative studies and developing uniform...  Read More >>

Living with Water: Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections

Living with Water: Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections...

Author: Charlotte Bates ,  Kate Moles
ISBN: 9781526161727
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live....  Read More >>

Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through Innovation

Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through...

Author: Bruce Campbell (Clim-Eat, Global Center on Adaptation, University of Copenhagen) ,  Philip Thornton (Clim-Eat, International Livestock Research Institute)
ISBN: 9781009227209
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Why food system transformation is needed, how it can be achieved, and how science can be a catalyst for change....  Read More >>

Advanced Introduction to Resilience

Advanced Introduction to Resilience

Author: Fikret Berkes
ISBN: 9781802202199
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences,...  Read More >>

In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms

In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics,...

Author: Doug Bierend
ISBN: 9781645021490
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why...

Author: Dan Saladino
ISBN: 9781784709686
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Industrial agriculture and the standardization of taste are not only wiping out many edible plants, but also the...  Read More >>

Advanced Introduction to Resilience

Advanced Introduction to Resilience

Author: Fikret Berkes
ISBN: 9781802202212
Format: Paperback
$54.21

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences,...  Read More >>

How to Fix a Broken Planet: Advice for Surviving the 21st Century

How to Fix a Broken Planet: Advice for Surviving the...

Author: Julian Cribb (Council for the Human Future)
ISBN: 9781009333412
Format: Paperback
$33.61

How to Fix a Broken Planet describes the ten catastrophic, existential risks that threaten human civilisation and...  Read More >>

Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American...

Author: Amy Kohout
ISBN: 9781496233769
Format: Paperback
$57.25

Taking the Field draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire...  Read More >>

Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology

Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology...

Author: Alberto Baracco ,  Manuela Gieri
ISBN: 9783031135729
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections...  Read More >>

Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations

Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy...

Author: Mark Terry
ISBN: 9783031142970
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The book also delivers a detailed analysis of the United Nations’ only database of youth-produced documentary films...  Read More >>

Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American...

Author: Amy Kohout
ISBN: 9781496215215
Format: Hardback
$127.75

Taking the Field draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire...  Read More >>

Urban Pluvial and Coincidental Flooding

Urban Pluvial and Coincidental Flooding

Author: Cedo Maksimovic (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK) ,  Adrian Saul
ISBN: 9780415621588
Format: Hardback
$238.05

Pluvial flooding is defined as flooding that results from rainfall-generated overland flow, before the runoff enters...  Read More >>

Social and Economic Impact of Earth Sciences

Social and Economic Impact of Earth Sciences

Author: Vineet K. Gahalaut ,  M. Rajeevan
ISBN: 9789811969287
Format: Hardback
$336.35

The book focuses on the activities of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, India, in promoting the societal and economic...  Read More >>

Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism

Author: Vandana Shiva ,  Maria Mies
ISBN: 9781350379886
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A powerful searing indictment of development strategies practised by the North on the South from an ecofeminist...  Read More >>

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