Social Impact of Environmental Issues

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 ...

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A revolutionary vision of how we can create a sustainable planet This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a huma...

How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? In this book authorities in social ...

A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture.“No one who cares...

In this book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a bro...

The mobilization of people, populations, and places—and the social interrelations of space and time, memory and longing, and the global and local—a...

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from highe...

The modern world is, in the authors' view, undergoing the process of meltdown—global meltdown. Having argued in an earlier book that humankind is h...

From the pollution-infested landscape of urban areas to the leached soil of decimated rain forests, the human race has exerted its will on the envi...

We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, Dav...

Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic...

Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipl...

"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of t...

Ecologists increasingly find themselves called upon to address the impacts of global change on biodiversity. Yet most studies of biodiversity focus...

Ecologists increasingly find themselves called upon to address the impacts of global change on biodiversity. Yet most studies of biodiversity focus...

This text offers a critique of the ideological roots of the "deep ecology" movement spreading throughout Germany, France and the United States. Tra...

One of the most shocking realizations of all time has slowly been dawning on us: the Earth's climate does great flip-flops every few thousand years...

Winner of the 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Award in ScienceMankind has recently come to the shocking realization that our ancestors survived hundreds of abr...

A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate Amid resurgent calls for wid...

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most...

Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet...