Social Impact of Environmental Issues

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...

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approxima...

This work is a chronological study of South Asia that emphasizes the effect of humans on their environment, and in return the influence of nature o...

Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of environmentalism i...

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates...

This book follows environmental changes—including those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstances—and provides...

This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historic...

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to establish...

This is a book about nature and culture, Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in livi...

Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic. Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.'I read this book yesterday and I've do...

In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, p...

The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, an...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits a...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits a...

'Tony Riddle's mission is to present ways of living that are more in sync with our human biology, to help us thrive in this modern world' Dr Rangan...

This comprehensive overview of the first quarter-century of American environmental sociology introduces readers to the research and theoretical per...

From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments. C...

An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came. Kathleen D...

Some of Nick Brandt’s subjects are humans, some are animals, but they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming sense in ...