Environment and Ecology

Today, more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities and is subject to particular environmental and economic impacts against the backdrop ...

The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy gover...

Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions....

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of mult...

This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and ...

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human e...

Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a ...

The Middle East region holds the world's largest oil and natural gas proven reserves. Several Middle Eastern States are major oil producers and con...

Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability, culture, communication, deve...

'A book of wonders' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times Books of the YearWinner of the Wainwright Prize 2022 - Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey ...

'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event...

How do plants make a living? Some plants are gamblers, others are swindlers. Some plants are habitual spenders while others are strugglers and mise...

How do plants make a living? Some plants are gamblers, others are swindlers. Some plants are habitual spenders while others are strugglers and mise...

In pursuit of moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, California and the ...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security ...

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.   Why is it difficult to talk about climate change...

2024 Wildlife Society's Publication Award shortlistBack from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North Americas most underappreciat...

Now back in print... This groundbreaking handbook (first published in 2015 by Oberon and now needed more than ever in the face of multiple unfoldin...

This book reviews the past, present and future generation and use of electricity. While noting the importance of electricity to the well-being of p...

Discover everything you need to know to kick-start your composting journey! Dig into compost basics and get to grips with the many benefits of comp...

This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common schoo...

The collection's focus is on girls' secondary education, and hence the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes and upper classes, will...

Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land a...