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Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook assesses the overlapping constructs and ongoing debate surrounding the definition of 'sense of place'. It explores connections to natural environments, virtual places, change over time and also broader questions such as how place can be understood across cultures and how attitudes toward places evolve. Chapters engage with non-Western, First Nations worldviews which treat 'Country' as a living, relational entity, contrasting sharply with typical Western, object-oriented models. They provide weight to the view that 'place' must be studied from many angles, and that respecting diverse, especially Indigenous, perspectives is essential for a fuller, more inclusive understanding of how people relate to the world around them. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of this fast-developing field, while also developing theory and encouraging future research in subjects such as regeneration, social relations and digital advancements.

The Handbook on Sense of Place is a valuable resource for students and scholars of human geography, environmental psychology, cultural studies and sociology. Its insights into how people relate to the world around them will also benefit practitioners in urban and regional planning and environmental policymakers.

This book concerns possibilities and obstacles to global cooperation in turbulent times, providing critical insight on how notions of sustainable development, crisis, and diplomacy are shaped by changing moods.

Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis investigates how mood shapes global cooperation. The book focuses on theorising the role of moods in multilateralism, their specific implications for issues as diverse as migration, media, livelihoods, conflict, and development aid, containing also regional case studies including on China, Russia, the United States, Europe, Turkey, and Brazil. It asks: What became of the global cooperation spirit we saw in 2015, with the adoption of several major international frameworks, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Agreement on climate change? Bringing together regional perspectives and original conceptual essays, the book offers a new lens on the changing conditions for global cooperation by focusing on moods and their effects, with important implications for the United Nations 2030+ agenda and beyond.

This volume brings together 19 chapters offering timely and original lenses for understanding the times in which we live, aimed at scholars, students, and practitioners working across the social sciences, diplomacy, humanitarianism, politics, and the humanities

Exploring key debates such as whether capitalism can ever be sustainable, the book underscores why ecological challenges are also questions of justice and equity. Drawing on a broad range of empirical examples from across the Global North and South, chapters highlight how responses to environmental crises vary across regions and the need for solutions to embrace diverse perspectives. The authors conclude that building sustainable futures requires more than technological fixes or incremental change: it demands social transformation, inclusive governance and critical reflection on the systems driving environmental harm.

Linking theory and practical insights, Understanding Environmental Sociology is an essential resource for scholars and students of environmental sociology, environmental governance, and environmental studies more widely. Policymakers and public administrators in sustainable development will similarly benefit from its timely recommendations.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of terrestrial ecohydrology, a rapidly evolving discipline focusing on the interactions of biota and water.

Understanding these interactions is especially important given the pace and scale of environmental change, with climate warming, deforestation, land-use change, groundwater depletion, urbanization, and other human activities are fundamentally reshaping how water is partitioned among evaporation, transpiration, interception, infiltration, storage, and runoff. Addressing these issues, the Routledge Handbook of Terrestrial Ecohydrology provides a thorough introduction to the concepts, methods, and questions that define terrestrial ecohydrology and presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the science as it is being applied around the world. The handbook is organized into seven parts:

• Part 1: Ecohydrology and Water Fluxes across Scales
• Part 2: Ecohydrology Theory
• Part 3: Biomes in Transition
• Part 4: Ecohydrology of Managed Ecosystems
• Part 5: Fauna and Ecohydrology
• Part 6: Methods in Ecohydrology
• Part 7: Ecohydrology and Society

Presenting a global view, with established and up and coming international contributors, the handbook showcases how ecohydrology has matured into a vibrant, problem-driven field that is central to understanding and managing water in a rapidly changing world. The handbook concludes by weaving insights, offering design rules, measurement portfolios, and open questions that link local interventions to downstream and downwind benefits for society.

The handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working in the field of ecohydrology.

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World reveals how biochar is emerging as a powerful tool for climate change mitigation, economic resilience, and sustainable development. Written for entrepreneurs, project developers, policymakers, farmers, and sustainability leaders, this book bridges peer-reviewed science with real-world industry experience. Across agriculture, carbon markets, policy, and innovation, it presents practical pathways to turn biochar into scalable, financeable solutions. By showcasing global case studies and forward-looking strategies, the book offers a bold vision of biochar as an enabler of livelihoods, climate action, and inclusive growth-unlocking new opportunities for communities and economies worldwide.

This book throws light on the cultural situatedness of education, the understanding of which enables the attainment of sustainable development goals for education. It is aimed at sharpening the core decision-making skills of teachers, leaders, curriculum designers, policymakers and teacher educators by placing a strong emphasis on theories, concepts and sociocultural perspectives on education and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This volume empowers readers to be equipped for a collective future that might be volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, owing to the numerous challenges posed by technological advancements, natural calamities and warfare. These external influences often seep into classrooms through the lived experiences of teachers, students, leaders and the cultural norms of educational institutions. The book uses concrete examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal, in handling emerging challenges.

Written in an engaging conversational style, this book makes complex topics accessible to prospective teachers as well as seasoned school leaders. It will be useful to academics, researchers, postgraduates and students of education, anthropology, psychology and training. It will also be of interest to policy developers and government agencies who are engaged with the drafting of policies on SDGs.

This field guide offers practical guidance for readers to initiate and engage in resilience planning with their communities in a structured, deliberative way that emphasizes equity.

The contents revolve around lessons learned from The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) on-the-ground community initiative to advance resilience across communities in Virginia. Chapters provide background about resilience planning; a starting point for conducting holistic assessment of a community's resilience with a focus on equity; recommendations for establishing an infrastructure for long- term commitment to resilience; and suggestions for identifying and planning activities and projects to build momentum for achieving resilience outcomes.

The format offers an easy read for non-technical audiences such as community planners, community leaders, or nonprofit agency staff to quickly and efficiently get the guidance they need for community-based, equity-focused resilience planning.

This book delves into the intricate relationship between climate change, urbanisation, political attitudes, and spatial inequities, examining how these elements collectively shape vulnerability in cities. This comprehensive book, structured across ten chapters and three core themes (public perception, urban exposure, and methodological innovation) presents an integrated framework that unifies social science, spatial analysis, and data science. Unlike narrower approaches, it bridges the gap between technical metrics and social responses to urban climate challenges.

The book explores how political worldviews influence climate risk perception and how peri-urbanisation intensifies vulnerability, particularly focusing on the disproportionate impact of heat in rapidly expanding cities. It reveals that while public awareness of climate change is present, a significant gap exists between awareness and individual action, with calls for more effective government responses and integrated climate strategies. It also highlights how advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and remote sensing are transforming the assessment and visualisation of urban climate risks. Specifically, it demonstrates how remote sensing quantifies the intensification of climate change due to urban greenfield expansion, revealing ecosystem loss and increased emissions, especially in peri-urban areas. This underscores the need for policies prioritising ecosystem protection for climate mitigation. Furthermore, the book provides a bibliometric review of urban heat vulnerability research, showcasing its rapid growth and evolution across diverse fields such as urban planning, environmental dynamics, public health, climatology, and remote sensing. It notes a crucial shift towards human-centred approaches and advocates for integrated policies to effectively manage escalating urban heat risks.

This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners in the field, including city government officials, policymakers, urban planners, and consultants. It can also be used as a reference for researchers and university students in urban studies.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), ecological design, and governance reforms can be leveraged to tackle climate-induced urban heat.

The book is structured around three key themes: AI for climate adaptation, green infrastructure and design innovation, and policy and planning perspectives. It delves into how intelligent technologies like remote sensing, real-time monitoring, and machine learning are revolutionising the assessment and management of urban microclimate risks. Specific applications include enhancing urban resilience through hyperlocal weather alert systems and analysing the influence of vegetation and building distribution on urban heat for better mitigation. The book further examines how nature-based interventions, such as AI-optimised vegetation strategies and cooling infrastructure, can create thermally comfortable and ecologically robust urban environments. It highlights the growing intersection of AI and green infrastructure in climate adaptation and urban sustainability. Beyond technology and design, the author focuses on governance and policy frameworks, exploring how institutional arrangements and planning paradigms can translate digital and design solutions into equitable and effective climate action. It investigates how climate action is reflected in local urban planning, drawing insights from cities committed to global climate agreements. By integrating computational tools, bioclimatic design, and multilevel governance, the book provides a holistic framework for addressing urban heat challenges.

It is an essential resource for urban planners, climate researchers, and policymakers seeking forward-looking, inclusive, and technologically informed strategies for building heat-ready cities in a warming world.

This book explores the legal transformations and tensions emerging in the context of the ecological transition. It examines how various legal regimes are already adapting to the challenges posed by the ecological crisis and where legal systems are under increasing pressure to change.

Through a series of thematic chapters, the book identifies and analyses internal legal, political, ideological, and regulatory tensions that characterize the process of adaptation. These include conflicts between legality and environmental protection, the limits of legal frameworks in addressing transnational green capital flows, and the challenges of reconciling legal certainty with ecological imperatives.

This volume maps the paths that law is already taking-sometimes deliberately, sometimes reactively-within the transition. Particular attention is given to how legal structures are shaped by competing visions of justice, growth, and sustainability, as well as the potential for legal thought to evolve in alignment with ecological principles.

An inspirational guide to discussing and fighting climate change for millennial and GenZ voters that cuts through the usual myths and scare tactics to provide practical advice.

Will Hackman is a Millennial, and he is pissed. Two wars, two global economic catastrophes, and a pandemic combined with a ballooning cost-of-living crisis and crushing student loan debt can do that to a person. But there's one thing that compounds these challenges that is unequaled in human history: the ticking time bomb of fossil fuel emissions. Millennials and Gen-Zers will be left to deal with the worst of the climate change fallout well after those responsible have passed away. And we have never been more divided.

In Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, Will Hackman identifies three main obstacles to solving climate change: polarization, paralysis, and stale, ineffective messaging. He empowers readers to turn their anxiety or apathy into passion, and anger into action at the personal, community, and government levels. The climate rallying cries to "Save the Planet" no longer work in our hyper-partisan world, nor do images of polar bears on melting glaciers. The problem isn't scientific, fact-based, or even technological. It's political, emotional, and ideological. Hackman provides a path forward for engagement and voter mobilization that combats apathy, dread, and resentment, and builds greater issue identification.

Hackman reframes the climate crisis as a humanity crisis, arguing that we must change how we think and talk about climate change, both in our conversations with non-believers and among those who care. Assuring humanity's place on a changing planet will require a near universal level of public support we will never reach if we keep making the same mistakes. We know how to do this. But the stakes have never been higher and time is running out.

The climate crisis and the digital transformation of society have been accelerating in recent years and will continue to do so for the immediate future. So far technological breakthroughs and innovation have been unable to address or sufficiently mitigate the damage business has done to the environment, but there are new technologies and new business models that could spell a new beginning. This monograph presents a modern and original approach to the design and implementation of effective digital business models that provide positive services for addressing climate change. This includes artificial intelligence, digital platform solutions based on algorithms changing the functioning of technical organization, applied technological management supported by elements of automation and robotics and new mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity and safety principles. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of sustainability, business model innovation and digital business including artificial intelligence.

This book explores the synergy between artificial intelligence and medtech, offering a roadmap toward achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. These technologies are part of a wave of innovation transforming how we learn, work, communicate, and live, from self-driving cars to AI-designed drugs and quantum computing. Yet most advances remain concentrated in high-income countries, leaving many low-income nations struggling to keep up.

I examine the social, political, and economic factors limiting development, highlight successful strategies, and explore AI and biotechnologies. Through case studies, the book shows how these tools can improve healthcare access, promote sustainable agriculture, and tackle other global challenges while considering ethical implications. By focusing on solutions accessible to low-income countries, it offers insights for innovators in middle- and high-income nations launching ventures with limited resources.

Future trends rely on interdisciplinary approaches integrating economy, sociology, and technology, recognizing that climate change, new health challenges, demographic shifts, and technologies are reshaping societies worldwide. Developing and advanced economies are deeply interconnected, making this broader perspective essential.

This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of international development and public health, as well as those working in development, humanitarian initiatives, or innovation-focused startups and companies targeting low-resource environments.

This open access book is the first of its kind that examines the urban development trajectory, sustainability, and urban policies' role across seven different countries in Asia and Africa. It offers theoretical and policy contributions emerging from a rigorous analysis of conditions on the ground in each city, combined with a critical engagement with urban policy in the respective city/country. It examines key developments in national urban policy over the years and maps emerging urbanization trends, social cohesion and social inclusion, including public health and neighbourhood planning, particularly in light of the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is an essential reading for graduate and post-graduate level students interested in urban studies, public policy, and urban planning.

This book examines the nexus between livelihood capital and resilience across Africa, offering a regional perspective on how people cope with climate change, conflict, and economic uncertainty. Drawing on the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, it explains how natural, human, social, physical, and financial capital interact to shape absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. Through a comparative analysis of North, East, West, Central, and Southern Africa, the book shows that resilience is context specific, shaped by governance systems, ecological conditions, and access to resources.

By integrating case studies with policy analysis, the book highlights pathways for strengthening resilience through inclusive governance and strategic investment in livelihood assets. It emphasizes that resilience is not merely survival, but the ability to bounce forward toward equitable and sustainable futures. Through a synthesis of regional lessons and proffering practical recommendations, the book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in development and climate adaptation across diverse social and ecological contexts in Africa.

This edited volume critically examines the role of higher education institutions in the Arab Gulf States in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of the region's distinctive resource dependence, environmental vulnerability, and rapid socio-economic transformation. Drawing on original empirical research from across the region, the book analyses how universities are supporting sustainable development through teaching, research, and institutional governance. By combining system-level perspectives with institutional case studies, the volume offers insights into how sustainable development is being interpreted, implemented, and institutionalized within the region's higher education systems and institutions.
The book makes a distinctive contribution by focusing on the Arab Gulf as a highly developed yet under-researched region of the Global South, where universities operate within ambitious state-led sustainability frameworks and post-oil development transitions. Through detailed case studies, the chapters highlight innovative pedagogical and institutional approaches, including project-based learning, living laboratories, and interdisciplinary research collaborations that support progress toward the SDGs. The volume offers policy-relevant and practice-oriented insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the role of higher education in advancing sustainable development in diverse national and regional contexts.

Less Is Not Enough examines the rise of minimalist self-help, showing how it depoliticizes middle-class frustrations with capitalist exploitation, and proposes a cultural strategy to channel minimalist desires into a more radical, postgrowth politics.

In the past decade minimalist self-help has exploded, from tidying guides to media detoxes which promise to help affluent middle classes navigate a world of excess-too much clutter, stress, and distraction.

Here, Miriam Meissner exposes the limits of minimalism in addressing both middle-class overload and the environmental crisis. Through a critical analysis of self-help books, TV shows, and online communities, she argues that while minimalism is well-intended, it ultimately distracts from the root causes of the very problems it seeks to alleviate. Trends like decluttering and mindfulness depoliticize middle-class frustrations with the capitalist exploitation of labour, attention, and ecology for profit.

In an era where climate justice and class struggle are inseparable, this book proposes an eco-political strategy that refuses to pit middle-class interests against the demands of a just green transition.

Culture is the essential fourth pillar of sustainability. This book reveals why that matters and how to measure it in a changing world. Progressing from a critique of failing impact metrics in the UK to innovative solutions for retail, exhibition, and heritage spaces, it argues for a holistic approach integrating cultural, social, economic, and environmental dimensions. Beyond simple economics, it offers new methodologies for assessing cultural impact. A vital resource for researchers studying cultural policy and an essential toolkit for creatives seeking to secure funding and demonstrate the true value of their work.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal explores the complex relationship between humans and environment through diverse disciplinary perspectives. It examines how we construct environmental identities and represent our surroundings across multiple domains.
The book begins with food production narratives and animal welfare implications before exploring the military's unexpected role in climate change mitigation. Linguistic analyses reveal how language frames landscapes as sentient entities, while technological chapters investigate digital innovation in conservation.
Legal examinations cover hazardous waste regulations, sustainable development, and water rights, with Morocco serving as a case study. Historical analyses of forest management in India provide context alongside studies of hunted animal portrayals on social media.
Psychological dimensions explore how nature shapes identity and social structures, while critical chapters address environmental crises in relation to postcolonialism and gender inequality in the Global South. Feminist perspectives on conservation and literary representations of environmental issues are examined, concluding with nature's therapeutic potential through ecotherapy practices.
This resource offers insights for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand our environmental relationships.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the reintroduction and recovery of the Mexican wolf in the American Southwest, with a particular focus on the role of the Federal judiciary.
Edward A. Fitzgerald contends that federal courts have played a critical role in facilitating the species' return, primarily through their interpretation of statutory law-most notably, the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The courts rejected challenges from the livestock industry, reaffirmed Federal authority over the recovery process, and struck down certain Federal regulations that hindered effective wolf management. However, Fitzgerald argues that the judiciary also made significant missteps. Federal courts upheld revised Mexican wolf management regulations and recovery plans that failed to meet the ESA's requirement to rely on the "best available science." Additionally, the courts issued inconsistent rulings concerning the construction of border barriers. While they blocked the Trump administration's unauthorized transfer of funds for wall construction, they repeatedly and erroneously upheld the Secretary of Homeland Security's waiver authority. This authority permitted border wall construction to proceed in violation of Federal, state, and local laws-actions Fitzgerald claims exceeded statutory limits and violated the nondelegation doctrine. Providing a comprehensive and detailed examination of the legal challenges surrounding the Endangered Species Act and the recovery of the Mexican gray wolf, this book will be of interest to legal scholars, policymakers, and conservation advocates.

This book explores the intersection of sustainability and business practices in developing economies, focusing on innovative strategies that contribute to and critically engage with relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It takes a critical stance toward mainstream sustainability narratives and the global SDG framework. Moving beyond conventional CSR rhetoric, tokenistic sustainability practices, and unchecked SDG optimism, it interrogates whether global initiatives truly align with local realities in developing economies.

Through a grounded critique, it explores how the SDG agenda may reinforce top-down, one-size-fits-all models that fail to capture the socio-political and economic diversity of the Global South. Rather than celebrating the SDGs uncritically, this book scrutinizes their operational feasibility, coherence, and inherent structural limitations, offering equity-driven and context-sensitive alternatives that challenge normative frameworks and conventional wisdom.

Drawing from decolonial theory to highlight how knowledge production, sustainability discourse, and implementation models are often shaped by colonial legacies and northern-centric paradigms, this work focuses on grassroots approaches, localized epistemologies, and pluriverse thinking to reimagine sustainability as a more inclusive and transformative endeavor, potentially leading to the articulation of new, decolonially informed sustainability concepts.

By bridging research and practice, this book combines scholarly analysis with grounded case studies, enabling readers to engage with both conceptual debates and real-world applications. Ultimately, it offers a roadmap for transitioning from ambition to action, advocating for sustainability practices that are both transformative and just.

Digital trade, encompassing the exchange of goods, services, and information through digital channels, is viewed as a catalyst for innovation and inclusive economic development. Though, the share of African trade in global digital trade appears to be on the low side, the growth in digitally delivered services is recently growing fast relative to trade in goods and non-digitally delivered services. Digital trade represents an important engine of growth and development for the African continent.

This contributed volume is motivated by a shared perspective that digital trade can offer significant opportunities for African countries to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty. The book first distinguishes itself by providing an in-depth and comprehensive examination of the complex dynamics of digital trade in Africa, setting itself apart by probing into the driving forces propelling its growth along with the obstacles that limit the expansion of digital trade in the region. Second this book innovates by linking regional integration efforts in Africa to digital trade. It focuses on how collective efforts within different regional groups across the continent can be harnessed to boost digital trade in Africa.

Third, one of the key differentiators of the book lies in its thorough analysis of the regulatory frameworks governing digital trade across African nations. The existing policies and regulatory challenges are discussed across specific countries and group of countries. Lastly, the book links digital trade to the broader socio-economic environment by exploring the nexus between digital trade and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa. By aligning the principles of digital trade with specific SDGs ranging from poverty alleviation and quality education to gender equality and industry innovation, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of how digital trade can be harnessed as a tool for sustainable development across the African continent. It systematically examines how digital trade can be a driving force in achieving these global sustainability benchmarks.

Unlearn Power: Strengthening Communities in the Age of Environmental Crisis examines how environmental inequality undermines ecosystems and the livelihoods of inhabitants while weighing approaches to resistance and advancing community security. Prefaced on the figurative and literal question "what's under the hood?", the text explores a range of contemporary disparities and threats - endemic across environments and societies - rooted in socioeconomic inequality and systemic racism.

Building on the author's work in urban forestry, environmental planning, and energy policy, Unlearn Power applies a range of analysis approaches, frameworks, and case studies to make its case for the democratization of environmental decision-making through the centering of marginalized communities and elevating labor as focal points.

As serious questions persist related to how the potential of energy and environmental transitions can be reached, without rooting restorative justice and life cycle analysis in environmental governance, the objectives of pro-climate and environmental movements will be deficient. The book ultimately calls for the rethinking of power - including both energy systems and political structures - to advance ecological and human well-being.