Social impact of environmental issues books

3811 books were found.

Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance: Agencies and Interactions

Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance:...

Author: Monica Tennberg ,  Else Grete Broderstad
ISBN: 9780367674151
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and industries...  Read More >>

Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology

Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century: Fascism,...

Author: Caren Irr (Brandeis University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350198838
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno’s lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application...  Read More >>

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 >>

African Environmental Crisis: A History of Science for Development

African Environmental Crisis: A History of Science for...

Author: Gufu Oba
ISBN: 9781032173085
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Surviving Democracy: Mitigating Climate Change in a Neoliberalized World

Surviving Democracy: Mitigating Climate Change in a...

Author: Chien-Yi Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
ISBN: 9781032172682
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Chien-Yi Lu treats climate change as collateral damage of the neoliberal order established to ensure upward power...  Read More >>

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, and Uncertainty

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

Author: Nathaniel K Newlands
ISBN: 9781032242422
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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

Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands: Cultural and Policy Implications

Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands:...

Author: Kiron C. Neale
ISBN: 9781032172996
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policy-making to achieve mainstream solar energy in small,...  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
$294.98

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
$274.53

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

Engaging the Atom: The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present

Engaging the Atom: The History of Nuclear Energy and...

Author: Arne Kaijser ,  Markku Lehtonen
ISBN: 9781952271328
Format: Paperback
$71.50

With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear...  Read More >>

Climate Afflictions

Climate Afflictions

Author: Iffat Mahmud ,  Wameq Raza
ISBN: 9781464817649
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Deteriorating climatic conditions will likely increase the occurrences of infectious diseases and mental health...  Read More >>

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
$459.36

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 >>

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
$41.95

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
$176.95

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
$80.21

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

The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene

The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the...

Author: Holly-Gale Millette ,  Ruth Heholt
ISBN: 9783030437794
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic...  Read More >>

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