Social Impact of Environmental Issues

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, gro...

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and int...

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic...

This book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. While many books have been written about climate changethis ...

Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills and filthy river systems. Recalls of spinach, lettuce, and other vegetables because of E-coli bacteria cont...

Marine social and ecological systems around the world face multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors associated with global change. The resultin...

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive indu...

This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge o...

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the ...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns i...

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policymaking to achieve mainstream solar energy in small, tropical islands. Focusing on ...

Mudskippers are amphibious fishes native to the Indo-West Pacific and tropical western Africa. Unlike most fishes, mudskippers emerse to forage, fi...

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations. While commun...

The San Joaquin Kit Fox introduces readers to a small wild canid that occupies a prominent position in ongoing conservation battles. Native to cent...

The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their co...

The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their co...

This book investigates the role played by classical and digital media, and social networks in shaping debates on the environment. Providing a uniqu...

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-hu...

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-hu...

Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impac...

This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblic...

The Jersey Shore attracts millions of visitors each year, drawn to its sandy beaches. Yet New Jerseys coastline contains a richer array of biodiver...

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.Writte...

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.Writte...

This book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and envi...

This book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and envi...

This book is a scholarly anthology that proposes a deep discussion about the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has portrayed nature, huma...

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences. The author, a ...

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the A...

A brilliant (Chicago Review of Books), elegantly written, and compelling (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, ...