Social impact of environmental issues books

3518 books were found.

A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico

A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the...

Author: Elinor G. K. Melville (York University, Toronto)
ISBN: 9780511571091
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental...  Read More >>

Environmental Literacy in Science and Society: From Knowledge to Decisions

Environmental Literacy in Science and Society: From...

Author: Roland W. Scholz
ISBN: 9780511921520
Format: Undefined
$594.00

A comprehensive review and analysis of environmental literacy within the context of environmental science and sustainable...  Read More >>

Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic

Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters...

Author: Light Carruyo (Vassar College)
ISBN: 9780271033266
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people...  Read More >>

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental...

Author: Lena Dominelli (Durham University)
ISBN: 9780745654010
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have...  Read More >>

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental...

Author: Lena Dominelli (Durham University)
ISBN: 9780745654003
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have...  Read More >>

Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865

Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America,...

Author: Cheryl A. Wells
ISBN: 9780820343426
Format: Paperback
$81.71

In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernising, capitalist societies. Work bells, clock towers,...  Read More >>

Learning from Wind Power: Governance, Societal and Policy Perspectives on Sustainable Energy

Learning from Wind Power: Governance, Societal and Policy...

Author: Joseph Szarka ,  Richard Cowell
ISBN: 9780230298743
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and...  Read More >>

Environmental Health Ethics

Environmental Health Ethics

Author: David B. Resnik
ISBN: 9781139161848
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health....  Read More >>

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in...

Author: Paul G. Harris (Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education.)
ISBN: 9781447305071
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development uses Hong Kong to explore environmental economic and social development...  Read More >>

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in...

Author: Paul G. Harris (Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education.)
ISBN: 9781447305088
Format: Hardback
$186.99

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development uses Hong Kong to explore environmental economic and social development...  Read More >>

Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management

Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management

Author: Thomas Measham ,  Stewart Lockie
ISBN: 9780643104129
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Presents fresh research full of practical case studies exploring risk and uncertainty in environmental management....  Read More >>

War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War

War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation...

Author: Lisa M. Brady
ISBN: 9780820342498
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about...  Read More >>

Great Food Robbery

Great Food Robbery

Author: Grain
ISBN: 9780857491138
Format: Paperback
$38.68

We are in crisis. Over a billion go hungry though there is enough food for everyone, land grabs displace the poor...  Read More >>

ICRP Publication 115: Lung Cancer Risk from Radon and Progeny

ICRP Publication 115: Lung Cancer Risk from Radon and...

Author: ICRP
ISBN: 9780702049774
Format: Paperback
$231.00

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Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions

Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments:...

Author: H. Bruyninckx ,  S. Happaerts
ISBN: 9780230360525
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development,...  Read More >>

Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained

Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost,...

Author: Wendy Harcourt
ISBN: 9780230316485
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the...  Read More >>

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology...

Author: James Fairhead (University of London) ,  Melissa Leach (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781139164023
Format: Undefined
$594.00

African forest landscapes are often considered as degraded. However, this fascinating 1996 study reveals how inhabitants...  Read More >>

Who Speaks for the Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

Who Speaks for the Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting...

Author: Maxwell T. Boykoff (University of Colorado Boulder)
ISBN: 9780511978586
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray...  Read More >>

Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed...

Author: Edward B. Barbier (University of Wyoming)
ISBN: 9780511781131
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of...  Read More >>

Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation...

Author: Peter Newell (University of East Anglia) ,  Matthew Paterson (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9780511761850
Format: Undefined
$594.00

What are the best economic policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change? Climate Capitalism...  Read More >>

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Author: William R. Cotton (Colorado State University) ,  Roger A. Pielke, Sr (Senior Research Scientist, University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9780511808319
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This 2007 edition examines the debates surrounding anthropogenic impacts on the Earth's climate and presents the...  Read More >>

Environmental Protection, Law and Policy: Text and Materials

Environmental Protection, Law and Policy: Text and Materials...

Author: Jane Holder (University College London) ,  Maria Lee (University College London)
ISBN: 9780511805981
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This 2007 book explores environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world behind environmental...  Read More >>

Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design

Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research...

Author: Ismael Vaccaro (McGill University, Montréal) ,  Eric Alden Smith (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780511760242
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Evaluating the relationships between human communities and the environment has proved complex in the past. In this...  Read More >>

The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy

The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy...

Author: Neil Carter (University of York)
ISBN: 9780511819179
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive, comparative introduction to the three...  Read More >>

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