Social impact of environmental issues books

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Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food

Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food

Author: Dale F. Slongwhite ,  Jeannie Economos
ISBN: 9780813049847
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This book provides an intimate look at the lives of former African-American farmworkers who labored in central Florida's...  Read More >>

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach...

Author: Richard Evanoff
ISBN: 9781138008786
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Develops a philosophical framework in which ethical questions related to interactions between self, society, and...  Read More >>

Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross-National Analysis...

Author: Karen Bell (School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol.)
ISBN: 9781447305941
Format: Hardback
$186.99

This optimistic and accessible book contributes to our understanding of the factors that shape environmental justice...  Read More >>

Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene

Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene...

Author: Mark Whitehead
ISBN: 9780415809849
Format: Paperback
$162.00

From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant...  Read More >>

The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

Author: Monique Taylor ,  Monique Taylor
ISBN: 9781137350541
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist...  Read More >>

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics,...

Author: Maurie J. Cohen ,  Halina Szejnwald Brown
ISBN: 9781782540243
Format: Paperback
$94.95

This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through...  Read More >>

Hope on Earth: A Conversation

Hope on Earth: A Conversation

Author: Paul R Ehrlich (Stanford University) ,  Michael Charles Tobias
ISBN: 9780226113685
Format: Hardback
$60.72

Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world's...  Read More >>

The Short Guide to Environmental Policy

The Short Guide to Environmental Policy

Author: Carolyn Snell (University of York) ,  Gary Haq (Stockholm environmental institute)
ISBN: 9781447307174
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An essential introduction for all those interested in how policies can address environmental problems, bringing...  Read More >>

Building Resilient Urban Communities

Building Resilient Urban Communities

Author: Jonas Joerin ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9781783509058
Format: Hardback
$166.00

How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This key issue...  Read More >>

Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and...

Author: Timothy C. Earle ,  Michael Siegrist
ISBN: 9781138012196
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Explores aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. This book is an examination of trust...  Read More >>

Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia: Energy Consumption and Urban Air-Conditioning

Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia: Energy Consumption and...

Author: M. Sahakian
ISBN: 9781137308825
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling...  Read More >>

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

Author: Richard Hoffmann (York University, Toronto)
ISBN: 9780521876964
Format: Hardback
$219.94

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and handle the natural...  Read More >>

The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape...

Author: Nick Wates (Nick Wates Associates, UK) ,  Jeremy Brook
ISBN: 9781844074907
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Essential tool kit for professionals involved in shaping their local community environment.  Read More >>

Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh

Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social...

Author: Jörg Gertel (University of Leipzig, Germany) ,  Sarah Ruth Sippel (University of Leipzig, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415711685
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables...  Read More >>

Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence

Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence

Author: Joseph A. Pratt ,  Martin V. Melosi
ISBN: 9780822962663
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies...  Read More >>

Building Global Infrastructure

Building Global Infrastructure

Author: Dale S. Rothman ,  Mohammod T. Irfan
ISBN: 9781612050928
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International...  Read More >>

Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore...

Author: Timothy P. Barnard
ISBN: 9789971697907
Format: Paperback
$72.32

How has Singapore’s environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political,...  Read More >>

Diversidad, Globalizacion Y LA Sabiduria De LA Naturaleza

Diversidad, Globalizacion Y LA Sabiduria De LA Naturaleza...

Author: Danilo J Anton
ISBN: 9781552501603
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

The conquest of the Americas was the first step on the path to globalization. Today, 500 years later, we are rapidly...  Read More >>

Sustainability Appraisal: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience

Sustainability Appraisal: A Sourcebook and Reference...

Author: Barry Dalal-Clayton ,  Barry Sadler (Independent Consultant, Canada)
ISBN: 9781844073573
Format: Hardback
$441.00

Highlights how Sustainability Assessments can be used to integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars...  Read More >>

Environmental Change and Sustainable Social Development: Social Work-Social Development Volume II

Environmental Change and Sustainable Social Development:...

Author: Sven Hessle
ISBN: 9781472416377
Format: Hardback
$305.00

How does climate change affect social work and social development? What actions are needed to integrate the three...  Read More >>

Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Psychological and Behavioural Approaches

Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility:...

Author: Scott A. Cohen (University of Surrey, UK) ,  James E.S. Higham (University of Otago, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780415839372
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Despite a growing contribution to climate change, tourist and traveller behaviour is currently not acknowledged...  Read More >>

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective...

Author: James Rodger Fleming ,  Ann Johnson
ISBN: 9780822962908
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology,...  Read More >>

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