Social Impact of Environmental Issues

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It prov...

Attending to the 'Cry of the Earth' requires a critical appraisal of how we conceive our relationship with the environment, and a clear vision of h...

The Salvation Army is well known for its work with the poor and disadvantaged. There is, however, much more to the story of the Salvation Army than...

An Open Access edition of this work is available on Modern Languages Open (https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org)Postgrowth Imaginaries brings togeth...

Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canadas densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the pol...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Compelling, fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a sp...

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the trop...

Roads and water are generally seen as enemies, with water responsible for most of the damage to roads, and roads being a major cause of problems su...

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters...

AS FEATURED IN BBC TWO'S BILLION DOLLAR DOWNFALL: THE DEALMAKER DOCUMENTARYTwo Wall Street reporters investigate the man entrusted with millions to...

Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution is already drivi...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

The Niger Delta, the crude oil extraction center of Nigeria, features in the global public imagination as the archetypal theatre of oil production....

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analyti...

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political,...

** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades h...

For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and ...

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...