Social Impact of Environmental Issues

Given the importance that entrepreneurship and start-up businesses in technology-intensive sectors like life sciences, renewable energy, artificial...

In Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore, cultural anthropologist Robert Phillips provides a detailed, yet ...

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally. H...

In Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore, cultural anthropologist Robert Phillips provides a detailed, yet ...

Humans and human mobility, including driving and flying, are entangled with the climate emergency. Fossil-fuelled mobility worsens severe weather, ...

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key insti...

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavour that has required new strategies in art-making. T...

'One of the most important books I've read this year. How Are We Going To Explain This? is a crystal clear treatise on where we are, and what we ne...

The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the ...

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous mo...

The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, fo...

Nature writing, as Thoreau knew, can be deeply subversive because it points to ways of living that diverge fundamentally from dominant attitudes. T...

This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near th...

Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserv...

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early ...

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous mo...

A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in tro...

Winner of the Charles H. Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.Richard G. Mitchell Jr. spent more than a dozen years ...

What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and so...