Social impact of environmental issues books

Assessing environmentalism as a social movement and political force, this volume of essays focuses on cultural roots...  Read More >>

Contributions from anthropology, geography, history and literary studies. The combination of diverse methods and...  Read More >>

Explores the technology of looking at things and examines strategies developed by the Western sciences for seeing...  Read More >>

The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first...  Read More >>

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* Original and innovative guide to the sociology of the environment. * Covers all the key issues and debates including:...  Read More >>

In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation...  Read More >>

Analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact....  Read More >>

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these...  Read More >>

An exploration of the role of human adaptation along the Gulf coast of Florida and the influence of coastal foraging...  Read More >>

This is the first systematically comparative study of environmental protest in a representative cross-section of...  Read More >>

Bringing together anthropologists and historians, this volume examines the range, variability and historical mutability...  Read More >>

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This volume offers an integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource...  Read More >>

The term ""natural disaster'"" is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods....  Read More >>

""At Risk"" argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed....  Read More >>

'Modern', 'modernity', 'modernism' modernization': these notions convey ideas which aim to describe the world. But...  Read More >>

Skin and Bones relates the history of Shellcracker Haven, a community pseudonym, to the development of fresh water...  Read More >>

In this travelogue, William H. Calvin takes us around the globe and back in time, showing how such cycles of cool,...  Read More >>

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If we are part of the environment - and we are - what are the limits, the boundaries, of human intervention in the...  Read More >>

Science was a central pillar of colonialism, but the converse holds true as well: colonialism profoundly shaped...  Read More >>

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