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Cover Handbook on Inequality and the Environment
Handbook on Inequality and the Environment

This innovative Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the complex relationship between inequality and the environment and illustrates the myriad ways in which they intersect. Featuring over 30 contributions from leading experts in the field, it explores the ways in which inequality impacts three of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues: climate change, natural resource extraction, and food insecurity.

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Handbook
Published:
08 Jun 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800881136
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2023
Cover A Research Agenda for Food Systems
A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Edited by
Colin Sage

Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests that continues to drive rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that confront current food systems, and the emerging responses to them. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

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Monograph Book
Published:
25 Oct 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880269
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe
Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe
Social Policy and Climate Change

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This seminal book addresses the critical and urgent question of ‘what makes welfare states sustainable?’ in the era of climate change. Expert authors challenge traditional perspectives on questions of sustainability which have focused on population ageing, global economic turbulence and on containing current and future public social spending.

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Monograph Book
Published:
06 Sep 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104633
Cover Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism
Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism
This thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues.
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Handbook
Published:
25 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100222
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover The Violence of Conservation in Africa
The Violence of Conservation in Africa
State, Militarization and Alternatives
Offering insights on violence in conservation, this timely book demonstrates how and why the state in Africa pursues conservation objectives to the detriment of its citizens. It focuses on how the dehumanization of black people and indigenous groups, the insertion of global green agendas onto the continent, a lack of resource sovereignty, and neoliberal conservation account for why violence is a permanent feature of conservation in Africa.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885615
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Research Handbook on Energy and Society
Research Handbook on Energy and Society
This incisive Research Handbook examines the relationship between energy and society, across both macro- and micro-scales, in the context of the climate crisis. Featuring an extensive examination of current research in the field from fifty expert international contributors, it offers important insights into the inter-connections between the globally organised fossil fuel energy system and the changing structures of society.
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Handbook
Published:
10 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100710
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
A Governmentality Perspective
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance.
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Monograph Book
Published:
19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977395
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences.
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Handbook
Published:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900408
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene
Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene
Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. It offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108709
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover What Next for Sustainable Development?
What Next for Sustainable Development?
Our Common Future at Thirty
This book examines the international experience with sustainable development since the concept was brought to world-wide attention in Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds engage with three critical themes: negotiating environmental limits; equity, environment and development; and transitions and transformations. In light of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, they ask what lies ahead for sustainable development.
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Monograph Book
Published:
26 Jul 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975209
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019