Social impact of environmental issues books

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Research Handbook on Energy and Society

Research Handbook on Energy and Society

Author: Janette Webb ,  Faye Wade
ISBN: 9781839100703
Format: Hardback
$513.00

This incisive Research Handbook examines the relationship between energy and society, across both macro- and micro-scales,...  Read More >>

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, and Uncertainty

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, and...

Author: Nathaniel K Newlands
ISBN: 9781032242422
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview...  Read More >>

Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China

Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China...

Author: Henry Lee (Harvard University, Massachusetts) ,  Daniel P. Schrag (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108842389
Format: Hardback
$284.63

A review of how near-term decisions by China on climate, energy, and environmental policy will impact their capacity...  Read More >>

Materielle Kulturen Des Bergbaus Material Cultures of Mining: Zugänge, Aspekte Und Beispiele Approaches, Aspects and Examples

Materielle Kulturen Des Bergbaus Material Cultures of...

Author: Michael Farrenkopf ,  Stefan Siemer
ISBN: 9783110734751
Format: Hardback
$212.18

This volume presents the papers given at an international conference held at the German Mining Museum in Bochum...  Read More >>

The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World

The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and...

Author: Brett King ,  Dr. Richard Petty
ISBN: 9789814868952
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology

Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology

Author: Axel Franzen ,  Sebastian Mader
ISBN: 9781800370449
Format: Hardback
$494.00

This Research Handbook presents the state of the art of empirical sociological research on the causes of, and solutions...  Read More >>

The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands

The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands

Author: Donald S. Murray
ISBN: 9781472942760
Format: Book
$22.99

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs, and heaths.  Read More >>

Housing Market Response to Sea-Level Rise in Florida

Housing Market Response to Sea-Level Rise in Florida...

Author: Risa Palm ,  Toby Bolsen
ISBN: 9783030884345
Format: Hardback
$284.60

South Florida continues to attract new residents despite its susceptibility to sea-level rise. This book explores...  Read More >>

River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China

River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict...

Author: Qian Zhu
ISBN: 9789004505902
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Anyone who cares about the environment cannot ignore the overmining of river-sand. This book explores how river...  Read More >>

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's...

Author: Nancy Krieger (Professor of Social Epidemiology, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
ISBN: 9780197510728
Format: Hardback
$69.95

Drawing on an array of novel examples such as workplace discrimination, relationship abuse, Jim Crow, climate change,...  Read More >>

Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future

Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a...

Author: Prof. Peter Adey (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) ,  Tim Cresswell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781786998965
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An examination of the need for a transition from our current carbon-intensive forms of mobility (dominated by automobility)...  Read More >>

Planet of the Trees

Planet of the Trees

Author: John Halkett
ISBN: 9781925043648
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Alarmists and deniers rarely go head to head in the climate change debate. They preach instead to sympathetic audiences...  Read More >>

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing...

Author: Katharine Hayhoe
ISBN: 9781982143831
Format: Hardback
$51.75

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save...  Read More >>

Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently

Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently

Author: Rob Imrie (Visiting Professor in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.)
ISBN: 9781529220520
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social...  Read More >>

Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently

Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently

Author: Rob Imrie (Visiting Professor in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.)
ISBN: 9781529220513
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social...  Read More >>

The Climate Demon: Past, Present, and Future of Climate Prediction

The Climate Demon: Past, Present, and Future of Climate...

Author: R. Saravanan (Texas A & M University)
ISBN: 9781009018043
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Climate predictions - and the computer models behind them - play a key role in shaping public opinion on climate...  Read More >>

Breaking the Silos for Planetary Health: A Roadmap for a Resilient Post-Pandemic World

Breaking the Silos for Planetary Health: A Roadmap for...

Author: Nicole de Paula
ISBN: 9789811637537
Format: Hardback
$142.29

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Thomas Berry: A Biography

Thomas Berry: A Biography

Author: Mary Evelyn Tucker ,  John Grim
ISBN: 9780231176996
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography...  Read More >>

Green Ideas Slipcase

Green Ideas Slipcase

Author: Greta Thunberg ,  Naomi Klein
ISBN: 9780241548721
Format: Mixed media product
$240.00

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Over the past 75 years,...  Read More >>

SOCIAL HOUSING HOMES IN 25 PAINTINGS: AN ILLUSTRATED STORY OF UK SOCIAL HOUSING

SOCIAL HOUSING HOMES IN 25 PAINTINGS: AN ILLUSTRATED...

Author: Thurston Jones
ISBN: 9781800683556
Format: Paperback
$21.22

‘Social Housing Homes in 25 Paintings’ describes how these homes rose to prominence from the slums of the Industrial...  Read More >>

The Forests for the Palms: Essays on the Politics of Haze and the Environment in Southeast Asia

The Forests for the Palms: Essays on the Politics of...

Author: Helena Varkkey
ISBN: 9789814881869
Format: Paperback
$43.86

Transboundary haze has been a recurring problem in the Southeast Asian region since at least 1982. Why does this...  Read More >>

State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis

State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana's...

Author: Craig E. Colten
ISBN: 9780807175705
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Explores Louisiana's protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard...  Read More >>

The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time

The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time

Author: Allan Stoekl
ISBN: 9781517908188
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of clichâe-to a substantive, truly sustainable future""--"...  Read More >>

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