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This book explains how Food Policy Councils solve critical food systems problems by creating just and resilient ways of producing, harvesting, manufacturing, distributing, and consuming food and managing food waste, using methods that encourage civic engagement and strengthen democratic processes.


Although there are over 300 Food Policy Councils operating all across the United States, and scores in other countries, their critical work is not widely known. Due to the universal importance of food in people's lives, Food Policy Councils represent an underutilized and underestimated tool to build community power and strengthen democratic engagement. The book presents a path forward for existing Food Policy Councils to grow their impact and shares tips for advocates planning to start new food policy councils. Success depends on several important skills: understanding how to bring people together across differences to find common ground, raising funds successfully for yourself and your stakeholders, and increasing community members' abilities to advocate for changes in public policy and regulations. There are more and less successful ways to work to change the food system. This book will help food system leaders focus on the ones that work best, so Food Policy Councils can make a sustainable, significant impact.


This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the fields of food policy, food systems, governance and consumption, and anyone who is interested in civic engagement on matters involving food, nutrition and public health.

This book analyzes the evolution of circular economy in China focusing specifically on the role of quality infrastructure (QI) in this process.

QI refers to a system of knowledge, practices, and technologies that forms the basis for the operations of economies and societies, ensures safety and quality, and disseminates new knowledge that can be effective for the transition to a circular economy. Based on the analysis of a large number of Chinese and Western sources ranging from policy to legal and technical documents, the book traces the evolution of circular economy policies in China and its integration with green and low-carbon policies. It provides ample evidence for the role of QI and its elements, which are standardization, conformity assessment (testing, inspection, and certification), market surveillance, and others, as important components of China's economic and technological policy toward a green transition.

The book will be of great interest to students and scholars from the fields of economics, political and social science, environmental and legal studies. It will also be useful for development specialists interested in China's green transition and the functions of QI in this context.

Strategies for Sustainability brings together authors and perspectives from different industries, practice areas, and geographies within a unifying story thread to inform critical discussions and communication of contemporary ecological strategies relevant to business and marketing needs.

Anchored in diverse areas of study such as communication, technology innovation, strategy, policymaking, operations management, financial inclusion, and organizational research, it features a range of sectors including energy, transportation, finance, automobile manufacturing, construction, retail, urban planning, policymaking, and the blue economy, bringing unique insights from across the world from academia and practice. It aims to take a balanced approach, exploring the positive and the less flattering aspects of sustainability efforts. Each chapter starts with a thought-provoking warm-up question, prompting the reader to revisit their current notions of ecological sustainability and critically assess the gaps between sustainability strategy and actual sustainability efforts. Throughout this book, chapter objectives, themes, case studies, and discussion questions support student learning.

Written in a simple, concise manner, this book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of business strategy, marketing, international relations, and sustainability-related fields, as well as practitioners from a range of different industries.

This book is driven by the urgency of addressing the triple energy challenge- energy sustainability, security, and affordability. It explores a timely and policy-relevant research question, examining how effective green fiscal policies are in fostering the adoption of energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable technologies. It assesses whether such instruments are more effective when implemented in isolation or as part of a coordinated policy-mix, and investigates the right design, dosage and sequencing of their deployment. The analysis centers on three principal fiscal instruments-environmental taxes, green investment subsidies, and green investment tax credits-and distinguishes between different types of green technologies, namely superior cleaner production technologies and inferior end-of-pipe solutions.

The book provides a comprehensive and empirically rigorous evaluation of green fiscal policies and their role in the green transition, framing them as a crucial corrective mechanism capable of bridging the gap between private and social returns to green innovation. It offers a comprehensive review of modern econometric methodologies employed in this growing field-including fixed effects models, categorical treatment matching, difference-in-differences, complementarity and sequential analyses -and contributes an original empirical study on the impact of fiscal rule changes on technology adoption outcomes. Lastly, it offers policy recommendations for the implementation of green fiscal policies.

This volume serves as a valuable resource for a broad readership, including graduate students, academic researchers, international organizations, and policy professionals-particularly those concerned with finance and the environment.

This new book, Agroforestry and Climate Change Mitigation: Harnessing Multitrophic Interactions for Sustainable Plant Protection and Ecosystem Resilience, explores the fascinating world of multitrophic interactions in agroforestry systems and their implications for sustainable plant protection. Agroforestry, the integrated management of trees and crops or livestock on the same piece of land, is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural practice that offers a range of ecological, economic, and social benefits. This volume brings together a diverse range of ecological, agronomic, and economic viewpoints to provide a comprehensive overview of agroforestry and its impact from climate change.

The chapters cover the role of biodiversity in pest control, the impact of agroforestry practices on multitrophic interactions, the use of natural enemies for pest management, the potential of agroforestry for enhancing ecosystem services, and more. The volume looks at agroforestry in connection with climate change mitigation, environmental stress mitigation, beneficial insects, the role of detritivores in nutrient cycling and soil health, multitrophic pollination networks, plant-microbe synergy, root-mediated interactions, and much more.

Exploring the intricate web of relationships among organisms in agroforestry systems to unlock new strategies for managing pests and promoting the health and resilience of agroforestry landscapes, this volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding and harnessing the power of multitrophic interactions for sustainable plant protection.

Mounting perils posed by climate change, habitat degradation, pollution, and overexploitation jeopardize numerous species, including microbes.This book strives to shed light on the pressing necessity for sustainable biodiversity practices that safeguard our planet's natural legacy. By delving into diverse strategies, scientific paradigms, and case studies, the authors reveal how holistic approaches to biodiversity can cultivate flourishing ecosystems wherein wildlife and human societies coexist harmoniously. This approach sets the book apart from others and presents the tools and knowledge needed to ensure the resilience and thriving of ecosystems for future generations.

Key Features

• Provides a holistic view of how biodiversity impacts ecosystem functions and human well-being.
• "Diverse expertise of editors ensures a well-rounded perspective on sustainable biodiversity management. They present a variety of sustainable management principles, conservation strategies, and policy frameworks."
• Emphasizes the often-overlooked microbial communities, known as microbial dark matter, and their linkage to larger organisms.
• It delves into the ecological significance of microbes, their interactions, and their crucial roles in nutrient cycling and soil vitality, highlighting their importance for ecosystem sustainability.
• Includes real-world case studies and examples of successful biodiversity practices, providing readers with practical tools and actionable insights for effective biodiversity management.
• Emphasizes the importance of understanding basic principles, fostering global collaboration, embracing technological innovations, and encouraging community involvement to ensure the resilience and sustainability of ecosystems for future generations.

This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal.

This book brings together environmental justice scholarship set within a robust conceptual framework, focusing on a diversity of case studies from Nepal. Its locale-specific contextualization provides a unique analysis of the natural resource-based livelihoods common in the region, together with the health and well-being impacts of urban and industrial developments in its rapidly changing political, economic, social, and ecological environment. Centering contributions from Nepalese scholars and practitioners, this volume spans a wide range of topics, including the origins of environmental justice in Nepal, land and agriculture, conservation, infrastructure and development, Indigenous peoples, climate justice, and health equity. It reflects on the rise and development of social movements and public policy, discusses the further evolution of environmental justice, and highlights how the work of scholars, activists, and practitioners in the Nepalese context can enrich global conversations about social and environmental issues.

This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, students, and activists in environmental justice, sustainable development, South Asian, and Himalayan studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license

This book presents a clear, concise, and engaging discussion of critical multicultural and environmental justice education (CMEJE), elucidating what it is; why it is urgent for teaching professionals who work in urban and rural high-need contexts; and how to implement it.

Written for teachers and environmental educators working in a range of settings, this book unpacks CMEJE by describing its foundation in three movements (multiculturalism, environmentalism, and environmental justice) that heretofore have not been combined in discourses about high-quality education. It details various ways in which cultural and environmental phenomena define and shape teaching and learning. Critical concepts such as geography of opportunity, sustainability, and space/place identity are deftly integrated into discussions that explain how belonging, relevance, and responsiveness are central to academic success. At its heart, this book serves as an urgent reminder that educators must acknowledge and respond to the cultural and environmental realities that shape where and how young people live, learn, and grow.

Timely and discursive, this is an essential read for scholars and researchers with interests in multicultural education, environmental education, urban education, social justice, environmental justice, and diversity in education.

The environmental markets have never been more important or more widely discussed. But who exactly are the individuals that trade in the carbon markets, or who trade biofuels, biomass and water? Few non-specialists appreciate how traders approach the environmental markets, what their strategies are, and how they make money.

The trading world is not usually open to outsiders, but this book brings the environmental markets to vivid life by introducing the reader to 40 real-life trades or strategies that were carried out by named market participants. The 40 chapters cover different geographies and different markets, providing an unparalleled insight into how traders in the environmental markets work and think. Environmental trading developed in its current form in the early 1990s and the chapters cover these early beginnings through to the present day. Sections cover compliance and voluntary carbon; ethanol, biodiesel and feedstocks; biomass; environmental finance trades; water markets; and trading as a project developer.

40 Classic Trades in the Environmental Markets provides plenty of inspiration for current or prospective environmental market traders, project developers or analysts. It will also be valuable for academic researchers, business school case studies, and for anyone wanting to learn more about the individuals that are shaping some of the fastest growing and most significant commodity markets of the 21st century.

How to Think Like an Ecologist offers a witty and engaging guide to the science behind restoring the planet and, by association, ourselves.

Aimed at non-science students, this book demystifies the basic science of environmental global changes, from climate change to biodiversity loss, while tackling the natural constraints that shape our future. The book dives into the unique power of science as a tool for uncovering truths about the natural world and equips readers with strategies to spot and counter scientific misinformation. Exploring how differing views of nature can spark conflict, it emphasises the importance of clarity and community in setting environmental priorities. To address environmental challenges requires a basic ecological literacy, so the science of ecology and evolution are examined. The text unpacks the interconnected crises we face, from plastic pollution, invasive species, ocean acidification, and more, arguing for holistic, systemic solutions. The final chapters inspire action, addressing what it takes to create a sustainable society and how to cultivate hope in these challenging times.

Filled with innovative ideas and real-world examples, this alternative textbook is a must-read for students in introductory environmental courses and those in other disciplines seeking to grasp the fundamental science behind our rapidly changing global environment.

Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World is the first book to consider the psychological and social impact of global warming through the lens of Attachment Theory. The contributors reflect on our relationship with the natural world from the perspective of Bowlby's major themes, including the nature and primacy of the attachment instinct for survival, the secure base, separation anxiety, maternal deprivation, loss and mourning. The therapeutic value of renewing our relationship with, and respect for, the natural world we are part of is explored, as is working with psychotherapy clients who are troubled by the climate emergency and suffering caused around the world by continued reckless plundering of natural resources. Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World will offer valuable insights for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, environmental activists, and anyone concerned about our relationship with the natural world in times of ecological crisis.

Environmental Challenges and Political Stability in the Middle East explores how environmental degradation, climate change, and resource scarcity intersect with political instability and social unrest across one of the world's most vulnerable regions.

This book examines how the mounting pressures of climate change-ranging from water scarcity and desertification to rising temperatures and migration-serve as catalysts for conflict and governance challenges in the Middle East. Drawing on extensive research, case studies, and firsthand experience, this book reveals how environmental stress acts as a threat multiplier: amplifying inequalities, undermining economic resilience, and destabilizing fragile states such as Syria, Yemen, and Jordan. Moving beyond diagnosis, this book offers pathways toward resilience through sustainable resource management, regional cooperation, and inclusive governance. It emphasizes that addressing environmental challenges is not merely a technical task but a political and moral imperative-central to peacebuilding and sustainable development in the 21st century.

Bridging environmental science, political analysis, and development studies, this comprehensive book offers a thorough and accessible perspective on the climate-conflict nexus. It will appeal to academics, policymakers, practitioners, and globally engaged readers interested in environmental governance, international relations, peace studies, and the future of the Middle East.

Outlining a transformational pedagogical philosophy that seeks to foster strong and meaningful bonds to the natural environment forged in childhood, this book targets some of the central social challenges entailed by planetary climate disturbance.

In recent decades, social scientists have been studying and drawing attention to what has been labelled "nature-deficit disorder," a psychological condition in which the young child is deprived of meaningful contact with the natural environment and suffers a diminution of well-being. Brian Elliott brings together the ideas of love of place (topophilia) and love of living nature (biophilia) to propose a radically transformed approach to pedagogical theory and practice that would counter the widespread nature deficit typically experienced by children in more affluent countries. The need for this transformation is especially pressing in the age of the Anthropocene, in which it is confidently predicted that systematic climatic disturbance will begin to become relentlessly severe within the next two decades. The pedagogical approach is also predicated on young learners' inherent interest in leading happy, meaningful lives, a goal furthered by unsupervised time in the physical world around them, especially in middle childhood. Drawing a wide variety of literary, scientific, ecological, and philosophical sources, Elliott makes a passionate and compelling case to stop confining our childing within the classroom and get them back into the open air of the natural environment.

Gendered dynamics have always been crucial in determining the experience and patterns of migration. The roles and responsibilities assigned to men and women within households and communities, created by cultural norms, social hierarchies, and economic systems, have dramatically influenced their experiences, vulnerabilities, and contributions during these movements. This book examines the intricate relationship between gender, migration, and climate change to shed light on one of the most important socio-economic issues of the 21st century. It explores the gendered aspects of migration brought on by climate change, recognising the vulnerabilities, adaptability, and resilience of women, girls, and marginalised genders in the face of climate-related disruption.

The book looks at how migration brought on by climate change alters the socio-economic environments of both sending and receiving groups. It focuses on how these changes either promote or impede social fairness by differentially affecting gender roles, economic opportunities, and access to resources. It looks at how migration fuelled by climate change exacerbates already-existing gender inequities, emphasising important issues like job accessibility, household and community decision-making authority, and the uneven cost of adjusting to economic and environmental shocks. Policy frameworks and tactics targeted at fostering gender-responsive resilience and advancing climate adaptation are assessed, acknowledging the pressing need for inclusive and equitable approaches.

By weaving together rigorous analysis, empirical case studies, and policy evaluation, the book encourages transformative solutions that promote equity, inclusivity, and sustainability. It invites scholars, researchers, and decision-makers to reimagine migration governance and climate adaptation strategies, ensuring that gender equity remains at the heart of global efforts to build a just and resilient future.

Human-animal interactions are often a significant part of our experience in sport and recreational settings. Animals contribute to the quality of these environments as well as our subjective leisure experience, but coexistence can also provide challenges. Starting from the smallest nematode and working up to bears and alligators, this book explores the impact of animals in this arena, discussing how animal behaviour impacts sport and recreation, often positively and sometimes negatively, and, in turn, how humans impact animals in these spaces.

Sports and leisure facilities around the world invest significantly in managing interactions with animals to support the quality of recreational experience and the health of both human and non-human animals. Bringing together the expertise of the authors in biology, animal behaviour, anthrozoology, and psychology, this book discusses ways to encourage, or discourage, animals in sports and leisure settings, whilst always observing best possible welfare and conservation practice. The text is supported by reference to news and media outlets as well as scientific literature.

In exploring our relationships with animals in areas highly managed by humans, this book aims to progress how facilities can be improved. It also adopts a One World lens encouraging us to interrogate our preconceived ideas about the animals with which we share these spaces and ultimately hopes that, with better understanding, animals will be treated with respect and wonder rather than seen as a source of conflict.

This book is an urgent invitation, provocation, and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species.

Despite the production of several policies, coalitions, and doctrines, the root causes of environmental violence, such as the reckless expansion of cities, roads, highways, shopping complexes, and residential areas, remain unaddressed. This book unpacks the dangers of 'eco-epistemic ambivalences' and eco-suicidal 'kamikaze mindsets' on the one hand, and to realize our response-abilities toward this planet's natural environment and biodiversity through multiple forms of rhizomatic turns and sub-turns. It thereby presents various rhizomatic methods that can be practiced in everyday life to interweave human and more-than-human knowledge systems.

The book will be of interest for postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and experienced academics engaged in the fields of environmental humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, environmental management, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, critical waste studies, climate change, posthumanities, climate politics, environmentalism, public humanities, critical diversity literacy, teaching and learning methods, and environmental research methods.

While the conversation surrounding climate change often focuses on environmental degradation, economic implications, and policy reforms, an equally critical aspect is emerging: the effects of climate change on mental health and psychosocial well-being. The increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters, such as droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires, not only disrupt communities and ecosystems but also take a significant toll on the mental health of individuals, leaving scars that are both visible and invisible. Those affected by these calamities often experience feelings of loss, anxiety, and helplessness as they grapple with the immediate aftermath of destruction and the long-term impacts on their lives. Research has documented heightened levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety among survivors of such events. The emotional tumult triggered by the loss of homes, livelihoods, and loved ones poses a daunting psychological challenge that cannot be overlooked.

This new volume, Climate Change and Its Effects on Mental Well-Being, brings together insights from various disciplines, including psychology, environmental science, sociology, public health, and climate policy, to provide a holistic view of the climate-mental health nexus. By analyzing case studies from dozens of countries and climate disasters and reviewing existing literature, the author identifies best practices and innovative solutions for addressing mental health challenges in the context of climate change. The book highlights the intricate links between climate change and mental health while also promoting the development of effective psychosocial support systems that are essential for fostering recovery in the aftermath of climate-related disasters and building resilience in communities as they confront an uncertain future.

The volume sheds light on the multidimensional impacts of climate change on mental health, recognizing that these effects can be both direct and indirect. It looks at displacement and trauma caused by climate disasters, the stress associated with economic instability in affected regions, and the psychological burden of climate-related grief. It also considers the disparities that exist in how different communities experience these impacts, emphasizing the need for culturally sensitive and accessible psychosocial support tailored to the unique experiences of diverse populations.

This volume should be essential for practicing and soon-to-be mental health professionals as well as for those working at disaster relief organizations, as the number and cost (both monetary and mental) of climate-related disasters will continue to increase in the coming decades.

Developing a new understanding of the cultural relationships of humans with nature through heritage and tradition, this book examines ways of transforming these relationships sustainably and assesses the impact on policy-related actions for ecologically embedded futures, drawing particularly on case studies from the European north.

This book opens up fresh perspectives, drawing on current debates in multispecies studies and bringing together approaches from environmental activism to community art practice and critical heritage studies. Focusing on ecological relationships underpinning the making of meaningful places, it combines theoretical exploration with case studies that raise themes, issues, and eco-cultural practices that have relevance across the world. Contributors evaluate intangible cultural heritage and traditional ecological knowledge for their potential to augment sustainable development, thus encouraging the rethinking of sustainability as a human-ecological concept indicating how new, locally rooted relationships with nature may create policy-oriented pathways towards cultural sustainability transformation.

Creative Perspectives on Sustainable Nature-Culture Relationships provides new insights to both professionals and students in the fields of sustainability studies, involving human ecology, geography, landscape studies, cultural anthropology, cultural heritage studies, art, archaeology, performance, literature, linguistics, futures research, philosophy, and beyond.

Psychotherapy for Climate Change explores the complex ways in which climate change is both exacerbating and being fueled by modern society's epidemic of loneliness and social isolation.

Chapters include both research and personal accounts to help the reader deepen their understanding of different perspectives on climate change. The book makes the case for using tools from various types of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy to foster collaboration in addressing the climate crisis.

This book offers insights that will help readers gain an understanding of the ways in which emotions and patterns of thinking can impact their capacity for connecting with others about environmental concerns. The book also presents practical tools for strengthening social connections among those who want to contribute to a solution and between environmental advocates and those who deny that the problem exists.

Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Climate and Biodiversity in Infrastructure proposes a high-level conceptual framework to holistically capture how integrated climate and biodiversity action is defined at the infrastructure project level. At its core, it proposes a set of criteria to jointly address two of the most significant, concurrent, and interconnected crises of our time: climate change and biodiversity loss. These criteria aim to mainstream biodiversity into climate, and vice versa, as a way to achieve multiple goals.

The criteria represent a framing and scoping approach for infrastructure project teams to identify and prioritize key issues and risks associated with climate change and biodiversity loss, outline the required level of ambition, identify options and opportunities, and inform decision-making.

Fields covered include landscape design, energy, water and wastewater, food, solid waste, transportation, and information. This book will be especially useful to decision-makers in countries with mandates for net zero carbon, such as Europe and the US, that are called to prioritize the right projects for funding to reach their goals. Moreover, the book will be particularly useful to students of the design professions and especially planning and engineering.

This open access book assembles geographically diverse analyses of case studies from around the world to demonstrate how women interact with global drivers of change to create new governance structures, subvert existing governance structures, or adapt their informal structures to reclaim their commons. Drawing upon case studies from Bangladesh, Peru, the United States, Tanzania and Kenya, and Chile, the book's authors address the question: How do women reclaim their culture and resources from the impacts of global change by enacting processes of formal and informal governance? The authors argue that women are essential actors in processes of both environmental and economic governance. Yet, their labor often goes unrecognized as power dynamics between and across genders shape access, control, and care of a resource or property and both state-level policymaking and international development frequently reinforce women's marginalization. However, women's work underpins economic, environmental, and community sustainability and they persist to overcome, subvert, or circumnavigate forms of enclosure in the commons. As both an ode to women's work and a call to policymakers and development agencies to recognize women's labor, this book illustrates how women draw upon knowledge, care, and culture to improve social, economic, and ecological well-being.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

This book highlights world perspectives on critical aspects impacting the circular economy and the Just Transition. In doing so, it provides recommendations based on the seven pillars of the circular economy which involve: design for durability and longevity, reduce, reuse and recycle, refurbishment and remanufacturing, recovery and regeneration, product as a service, sustainable supply chains, and digital technologies and data.

The edited collection is clearly divided into topics and regions relative to these core elements of the circular economy and the Just Transition. Topics discussed include: Sustainable Fashion with a focus on Asia; Gender Issues in Africa; Critical Minerals with a focus on South America; Nuclear Energy Development in Europe; Renewable energy initiatives in the EU and North Africa; Urban regeneration- Challenges and Solutions for cities in the EU and South America; and the perspectives of Early Career Researchers to the study of Energy Justice.

The book provides a global approach to these issues which are at the core of the just transition to a circular economy. These issues are the impetus of what can drive a just transition to a circular economy in this time of global crisis.

This open access book presents innovative and international research critically examining the effects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation on Indigenous and local peoples and linguistic minorities in the Arctic - and elsewhere, with a comparative focus. It includes anthropological studies and authors from different social and human sciences who engage synergistically with anthropological research. The volume presents knowledge that has been produced together with Indigenous communities and individuals. Its practical goal is to contribute critical knowledge to inform global environmental governance in order to fulfill better its purpose of increasing sustainable use of nature while improving the implementation of Indigenous rights and wellbeing.

This open access book explores the dynamic interface of urban practice, transformation, and cities and climate change science. Beginning with the landmark 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, moving through the Innovate4Cities Conferences in 2021 and 2024, it shows how the evolution of the Global Research and Action Agenda for Cities and Climate Change Science (GRAA) has facilitated collaboration across disciplines and sectors and supported the exchange of knowledge and innovation between cities globally. Through a detailed record of how cities and climate change science have evolved, the book highlights actionable solutions and scalable interventions, while synthesizing lessons learned into effective strategies. This book offers evidence-based pathways for practitioners and researchers working toward resilient, and equitable urban development.

A groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first major driver of fossil-fuel adoption.

This book explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including probate inventories, household manuals, personal journals, medical treatises and contemporary artwork, it reveals how households in the early modern Low Countries embraced peat and coal to fuel new standards of warmth, light and domesticity. Yet, with these new home comforts came rising indoor pollution, intensified and gendered housework and, ultimately, a quiet shift in humanity's relationship with nature.

Bridging the histories of environments, material culture and consumption, Fossil Consumerism offers a reinterpretation of the historical roots of global warming, finding these not in the industrial mill, but in the intimate, overlooked spaces of the home. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the everyday origins of the Anthropocene.