Environment and Ecology

Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the c...

This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's PhD thesis at the National University of Ireland, and represents a case...

In recent years' research on business and sustainability, particular attention is being given to the motivations driving business managers to incor...

The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different discipli...

Conventional development planning lacks sensitivity to the female experience. Tackling gendered discrimination and the exclusion of women, SDG5 aim...

Providing safe and clean water for all without damaging the environment is one of the biggest challenges of the SDGs. SDG6 is an ambitious goal whi...

A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoodsBoth before and after the 20...

Rebounding after disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods can be daunting. Communities must have residents who can not only gai...

This open access book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of social tipping points applied to energy systems from a soc...

To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice...

This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and o...

We live in an age of crises that are global in scale and potentially apocalyptic in severity, affecting the lives of millions billions of people. P...

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading sche...

Essays investigating the idea of natural heritage and the ways in which it has changed over time. The concepts of nature, culture and heritage are...

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border o...

Everything is subject to a lifecycle. In the field of energy, the obvious question is, Where are we in the lifecycle of fossil fuels? Competitive t...

Asia is not only the largest producer of important food items like rice and vegetable oil, but also the largest importer of commodities like soybea...

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years experie...

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions ...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores...

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capi...