Social Impact of Environmental Issues

Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area....

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea co...

The guidance aims to assist Parties in more effectively mitigating the effects of possible industrial accidents and the consequences on human healt...

Environmental Philosophy in Desperate Times examines environmental philosophy in the context of climate denial, inaction, and thoughtlessness. It i...

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not t...

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, ...

WINNER OF BOOKSHOP.ORG'S NON-FICTION ANNUAL INDIE CHAMPIONS AWARDFor too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been ...

What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the res...

Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical i...

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate...

The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated a...

The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated a...

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global threat, and is already contributing to record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves. To prevent ...

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key nat...

Cities are playing an ever more important role in the mitigation and adaption to climate change. This book examines the politics shaping whether, h...

There is a growing concern that many important ecosystems, such as coral reefs and tropical rain forests, might be at risk of sudden collapse as a ...

There is a growing concern that many important ecosystems, such as coral reefs and tropical rain forests, might be at risk of sudden collapse as a ...

Our world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable ...

Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that chil...

The modern era is facing unprecedented governance challenges in striving to achieve long-term sustainability goals and to limit human impacts on th...

How does culture interact with the way societies understand, live with, and act in relation to climate change? While the importance of the exchange...