This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes. The account of the history of such changes and turmoil in India and abroad starts in the prehistoric period, long before the emergence of “Rigveda”, the first human written work. The book describes the writings of Aristotle and …
SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy -- SECTION 2 - CHANGING FORMS OF URBAN ACTIVISM -- Housing Activism against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK -- Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social reproduction -- From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Ri…
Chapter 1: Introduction to Outdoor Recreation and Recreation Ecology.-Chapter 2: Recreational Walking -- Chapter 3 Mountain Marathons, Adventure Racing, and Mountain Tours -- Chapter 4 Recreational Climbing and Scrambling -- Chapter 5 Gorge Walking, Canyoneering, or Canyoning -- Chapter 6 Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles, Including Snowmobiling -- Chapter 7 Mountain Biking -- Chapter 8 Camping…
1.0 Setting the Scene -- 2.0 Contemporary Geoethics within Geosciences -- 3.0 Exploring Societal Intersections of Geoethical Thinking -- 4.0 Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche -- 5.0 Reframing Geoethics?This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system. It…
Chapter1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World -- Chapter2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change -- Chapter3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge -- Chapter4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations -- Chapter5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory -- Chapter6: Stewarding Sustainabilit…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Breakfast -- Chapter 2 Orange Juice -- Chapter 3 Wheat Bread -- Chapter 4 Tea -- Chapter 5 Milk -- Break time -- Chapter 6 Chocolate -- Chapter 7 Bananas -- Chapter 8 Coffee -- Lunch -- Chapter 9 Chicken -- Chapter 10 Rice -- Chapter 11 Maize -- Dinner -- Chapter 12 Potatoes -- Chapter 13 Cod -- Chapter 14 Champagne -- Chapter 15 Conclusion. .Open AccessThis open acces…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Channeling Disaster Aid: Process and Problems -- Chapter 3: Disaster Relief Provision -- Chapter 4: Response to and Emergency Relief Efforts for the Selected Disasters -- Chapter 5: Convergence Phenomenon -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.‘Dr. Paul has again provided an exceptional foundation in disaster studies, this time on the complex and evolving nature of hum…
1. Global Water Governance: An Overview -- 2. Environments -- 3. Economies -- 4. Societies -- 5. Water Futures.This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address. It is particularly concerned with connecting what are often technical issues in water management with the social …
1. Introduction -- 2. World Society and Neo-Institutionalisation -- 3. World Society and the Individual -- 4. The International Level: IGOs and INGOs -- 5.Development in Selected Countries -- 6. Individual Environmentalism -- 7. Individual Attitudes Towards Human Rights -- 8. Conclusion.This book explores whether individual attitudes and behaviors are swayed by global developments in a world i…
1. Introduction: Aye. Naw. Mibbe -- 2. Large-scale Renewables: Policy and Practice under Devolution -- 3. Community Renewables: Balancing Optimism with Reality -- 4. Marine Renewables: A Distinctly Scottish Dimension? -- 5. Renewable Heat: The Perfect Storm? -- 6. Scotland, Nuclear Energy Policy and Independence -- 7. Reducing Demand: Energy Efficiency and Behavioural Change -- 8. Crossing the …