Social impact of environmental issues books

3518 books were found.

The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is...

Author: Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich)
ISBN: 9780745690216
Format: Hardback
$103.95

* Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new...  Read More >>

Social Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Regions: Findings from Transdisciplinary Research

Social Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal...

Author: Grit Martinez ,  Hans-Joachim Meier
ISBN: 9783865816825
Format: Paperback
$89.73

Being key factors in creating and solving the challenges of climate change, end users, decision makers and local...  Read More >>

Contributions Towards a Sustainable World: In Dialogue with Klaus Topfer

Contributions Towards a Sustainable World: In Dialogue...

Author: Falk Schmidt ,  Nick Nuttall
ISBN: 9783865814791
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Parks are key to the protection of nature and the to the conservation of cultural landscapes, but increasingly,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Sufficiency: Making it Easier to Live the Good Life

The Politics of Sufficiency: Making it Easier to Live...

Author: Uwe Schneidewind ,  Angelika Zahrnt
ISBN: 9783865816900
Format: Paperback
$19.80

This book outlines a politics of sufficiency that will make it easier to live with fewer resources but with stronger...  Read More >>

Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics...

Author: Stefan Dorondel
ISBN: 9781785331206
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in...  Read More >>

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development,...

Author: Suzanne Simon
ISBN: 9780826519603
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA's Environmental...  Read More >>

Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist Regeneration

Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist...

Author: Dora Francese (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138999398
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration.  Read More >>

Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism

Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism

Author: Hans Antlov ,  Stein Tonnesson
ISBN: 9781138992399
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Traditionally, the tumultuous period 1930-50 in South East Asia has been viewed as a dichotomy, of European vs Asian...  Read More >>

Returning North with the Spring

Returning North with the Spring

Author: John R. Harris
ISBN: 9780813062747
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of...

Author: Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781447322924
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging...  Read More >>

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of...

Author: Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781447322917
Format: Hardback
$167.99

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging...  Read More >>

Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living

Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living

Author: Freya Mathews
ISBN: 9781760410926
Format: Paperback
$23.29

In Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, eco-philosopher Freya Mathews livens up her theme - that the company...  Read More >>

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and slum life in Indonesia

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and...

Author: Roanne van Voorst
ISBN: 9781138860537
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Human Ecology: How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

Human Ecology: How Nature and Culture Shape Our World...

Author: Frederick R. Steiner ,  Richard T.T. Forman
ISBN: 9781610917384
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Human ecology is the study of the interrelationships between humans and their environment, drawing on diverse fields...  Read More >>

Empires in Collision: The Green versus Black Struggle for Our Energy Future

Empires in Collision: The Green versus Black Struggle...

Author: David Howell
ISBN: 9781908531636
Format: Hardback
$51.62

The energy world is dangerously divided between fossil fuel producers and environmentalists. A vicious head-on fight...  Read More >>

Business and Post-disaster Management: Business, organisational and consumer resilience and the Christchurch earthquakes

Business and Post-disaster Management: Business, organisational...

Author: C. Michael Hall (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) ,  Sanna Malinen (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781138890855
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of a natural disaster on business and organisational...  Read More >>

Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Problems and Prospects

Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography):...

Author: David Ley ,  Marwyn Samuels
ISBN: 9781138992276
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of contemporary geography....  Read More >>

Vegan Betrayal: Love, lies, and hunger in a plants-only world

Vegan Betrayal: Love, lies, and hunger in a plants-only...

Author: Mara Kahn
ISBN: 9780990341321
Format: Paperback
$47.39

This riveting book explores the philosophical roots of veganism and why some thrive and some take a tragic dive...  Read More >>

Global Environmental Problems: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions

Global Environmental Problems: Causes, Consequences,...

Author: Tobias Lanz
ISBN: 9781631890604
Format: Paperback
$134.20

Provides an overview of the main environmental problems facing today's world. While many books on the environment...  Read More >>

Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America

Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America...

Author: Zachary Falck
ISBN: 9780822964025
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy...

Author: Melissa K. Merry
ISBN: 9781138194526
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Based on a case study of the Gulf oil spill, this book develops a theory about how political actors strategically...  Read More >>

Earth Matters: How soil underlies civilization

Earth Matters: How soil underlies civilization

Author: Richard Bardgett (Professor of Ecology at The University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199668564
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Earth Matters describes the importance of soil, the many ways in which we depend on it, and how humans have worked...  Read More >>

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