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This book brings together urbanisation, climate justice, and equity within a single interpretive framework, showing how the climate crisis and urban policy co-produce impacts and effects in urban contexts.

Drawing on planetary urbanisation theory and the frameworks of climate justice and just transition, European Policies for Urban Climate Justice interrogates the political, institutional, and socio-spatial dimensions of municipal climate strategies in Europe. The book offers a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis, spanning a critique of EU climate governance architecture to fieldwork-based case studies of Amsterdam, Bilbao, Freiburg, and Lisbon. It advances a conceptual triptych of climate justice, just transition, and equity: climate justice as a moral-political framing of unequal climate burdens and responses; just transition as a governance and policy project linking decarbonisation with social justice; and equity as the imperative to approach the climate crisis with the explicit aim of converging towards a more equitable society. Building on this, the book develops ecological conversion as a way of characterising the depth and direction of transition itself.

This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in urban studies, political sociology, political ecology, human geography, and environmental policy. It will also appeal to planners, policymakers, and civil-society practitioners working on urban climate strategies across European institutions and municipalities.

This book explores the deep and often overlooked connections between climate change and social inequality in one of the world's most climate-vulnerable regions: Asia. Drawing on empirical research and case studies from across Asia, including India, China, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

This volume explores how climate change disproportionately affects marginalised communities, shaping their socioeconomic realities and adaptive capacities. Dedicated chapters delve into coastal vulnerabilities, glacial lake outburst floods, and climate-induced displacement and look in detail at the subsequent psychosocial impacts, loss of indigenous languages, and economic vulnerabilities of microenterprises as well as communities. The authors also consider specific sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, household resilience, and health systems. Taken together, these cases highlight that the challenges presented by climate change are deepening existing social and economic disparities in the region, due to poverty, income inequality, catastrophic health expenditures, and food insecurity.

Integrating the multifaceted perspectives of economics, social sciences, and environmental studies, this book will be of great interest to practitioners, government, corporates, students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and sustainable development.

Featuring contributions from fifteen leading and emerging scholars of the environmental humanities, this groundbreaking volume explores human creativity and artistry in the face of climate change through a focus on multiple narratives, mediums, and forms in South Asia.

Home to a quarter of the world’s population and rich in cultural and geographic diversity, South Asia offers a compelling case for exploring the impacts of climate change on diverse cultural forms. From the river deltas of Bangladesh, megalopolises in India, mountain tops of Nepal, glaciers in Pakistan, and cities in Sri Lanka: climate change has indelibly altered landscapes and people. Bringing together a rich array of methodologies from different disciplines ? including ethnography, creative nonfiction, visual analysis, and ecocriticism ? this book positions climate change discourse within everyday practices, epistemologies, and infrastructures. Showcasing multidisciplinary perspectives, chapters explore the profound impacts of environmental change, centering human creativity as a vital lens for understanding one of the most urgent crises of our time. Ultimately, the book underscores the necessity of cultural, collaborative, and cross-border practices in addressing climate change.

This important volume will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of art and visual culture, South Asian studies, human geography, architectural studies, and environmental anthropology. It will also appeal to NGO, multilateral, and international institutions investigating the cultural and creative ramifications of climate change in South Asia.

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

In this book Piers Beirne confronts animal cruelty. Further advancing the multidisciplinary research program in non-speciesist and green criminology he has pursued for three decades. Beirne finds existing approaches to animal cruelty to be heavily burdened by religious, cultural and, especially, juridic baggage.

He establishes that the key concept of animal cruelty law, firmly entrenched since the mid-1870s, is the fictive distinction between necessary and unnecessary suffering. While it criminalises certain interpersonal violence as animal cruelty, this murderous distinction also permits―in zones of exception created by statutory exemptions for animal capital―the slaughter of many billions of animals in the animal-industrial complex. Beirne argues that because it is so imbricated in the couplet of permissible and impermissible violence, the concept of animal cruelty is anathema to non-speciesist criminology. It should be abandoned. He therefore proposes a vigorous approach to animal abuse in which a central part is played by non-speciesist concepts of interpersonal, institutional and epistemic violence. This framework is applied in successive chapters on anthroponosis; sexist and speciesist verbal violence; human-animal sex; and the doomsday scenario of zooanthroponosis.

This book is essential reading for scholars in criminology, animal studies, law, philosophy, multispecies justice and environmental ethics.

This book reveals how the city’s politics, culture, and ecology shaped urban nature from 1764 to 2020. Through a longue duree history of Lisbon’s public gardens and green spaces, it offers new insights into green infrastructure, climate adaptation, and the making of the modern city.

Drawing on urban history, environmental history, history of science, and landscape studies, the book uncovers how Lisbon’s gardens, parks, boulevards, and tree-lined streets became laboratories of urban modernity and ecological adaptation. Through emblematic case studies, ranging from the Passeio Publico and Estrela Garden to Monsanto and Lisbon’s Green Capital transformation, it shows how political regimes, scientific expertise, and civic life shaped the city’s green infrastructure across centuries. Thereby, it presents a deeper understanding of the historical roots of contemporary debates on climate resilience, sustainability, public space, and social life in cities.

This book is intended for scholars and students of urban history, environmental history, landscape architecture, urban studies, history of science, and Portuguese studies, as well as policymakers, planners, environmental professionals, and general readers interested in Lisbon, sustainability, climate adaptation, and the historical relationship between cities and nature.

This book offers a comprehensive and forward?looking examination of how global warming is reshaping the world’s river deltas, among the most vulnerable yet vital landscapes on Earth. It provides critical insights into the environmental, social, and political challenges faced by deltaic regions as intensifying climate pressures converge on low?lying coastal areas.

The volume emphasizes the central importance of delta resilience for global climate adaptation and human security, particularly in the context of rising sea levels, extreme weather events, altered hydrological cycles, accelerated land loss, saltwater intrusion, biodiversity decline, and disruptions to food systems.

It covers key thematic areas including deltaic geomorphology, sea?level rise, salinization, land subsidence, food security, climate?induced migration, urban infrastructure risk, and the role of traditional knowledge in adaptation. In?depth case studies from major delta systems, such as the Mekong, Nile, Ganges?Brahmaputra, and Mississippi, highlight both shared vulnerabilities and region?specific dynamics.?It also examines governance challenges, financing mechanisms, and international cooperation in managing transboundary river systems, while assessing nature?based solutions, managed retreat, and emerging adaptation technologies. By bringing together expert perspectives and evidence?based research, it fills critical knowledge gaps and offers a clear roadmap for policy and future action.

The volume serves both as a scholarly contribution and a practical guide for policymakers, planners, environmental NGOs, climate professionals, and graduate students concerned with the future of deltaic environments under climate change.

The gripping story of the trailblazing conservationists who shaped the wilderness of the American West into legend

Driven by richly drawn characters and framed by cinematic showdowns in epic landscapes, Saving the Wild Country vividly combines narrative history, biography, cultural criticism, and outdoor writing to show how postwar wildland advocacy-and the Western myth-shaped American attitudes toward wilderness in a time of ferocious development and change.

In the boom years following World War II, a small but vital group of artists, writers, and advocates mobilized the visual and therapeutic power of the wilderness to combat the dizzying development of the American West.

With cinematic flair, Ben A. Minteer explores the motives and achievements of photographer Ansel Adams, conservationist David Brower, curator and writer Nancy Newhall, and authors Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey, an ensemble united by a fierce commitment to preserving the American wildlands. Through a burst of creative projects, they struggled to control the narrative of development in the American West and offered an alternative vision to the culturally corrosive impacts of mid-twentieth-century industrialism and consumerism. But as the five visionaries fought the dams, bulldozers, and highways that slashed across the wild country, they also fought among themselves-and with their internal doubts and regrets-in a land where personality, myth, and activism collided.

In this volume, illustrated with compelling photographs, portraits, and iconic landscapes, Minteer

* investigates the intertwined truths and myths of the West that still permeate American culture
* provides nuance to the backgrounds and motivations of Adams, Stegner, Brower, Newhall, and Abbey
* sheds light on the perpetual battle against the negative cultural impacts of industrialism and consumerism
* engages with several influential western films, including The Searchers, Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave, The Wild Bunch, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

This long-overdue assessment by one of the top thinkers in environmental history and ethics shows why these postwar defenders of wilderness remain relevant for readers today.

This book shows businesses and individuals how to take practical steps on sustainability.

As the urgency around climate change intensifies, businesses and individuals are grappling with the need for meaningful action with enlightened self-interest.

The book breaks down key sustainability concepts and connects them to real-world practice through curated case studies, interviews, vignettes and diagnostic tools. It encourages reflection, action and 'can do' thinking, showing readers how to build a cohesive and well-governed sustainability plan.

This accessible resource equips professionals, students and advocates with the tools they need to make informed decisions and drive change in their own contexts.

This book examines the pressing issue of biodiversity decline and its far-reaching implications for sustainable development. It brings together leading experts to examine the causes, impacts, and solutions to one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Across 38 chapters, the book explores key drivers of biodiversity loss, including deforestation, climate change, land-use change, pollution, habitat degradation, and unsustainable resource use. It presents global case studies, innovative technologies, ecosystem restoration strategies, and community-based conservation approaches that support sustainable development.

Covering diverse ecosystems and regions, the volume highlights how biodiversity loss affects climate resilience, food security, ecosystem services, livelihoods, and environmental governance. Combining scientific evidence with practical solutions, this book serves as both a warning and a roadmap for action.

An essential resource for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, educators, and all who are committed to safeguarding life on Earth and building a sustainable future.

In 2010, the United Nations declared access to clean drinking water a human right. Yet billions still face scarcity while water is wasted, polluted, and undervalued. Water on Wall Street confronts this paradox with clarity and urgency.

Arguing that water must be treated as both a right and a responsibility - two sides of the same coin that will shape our future - researchers Marcel Boyer and Maria Kouyoumijian explore how population growth, economic expansion, and climate pressures heighten global demand. They demonstrate that socially responsible management requires new tools: efficient pricing, regulated markets, and transparent institutions that promote conservation while ensuring equity.

Spanning history, policy, economics, law, and technology, this book speaks to readers who want to understand water in all its dimensions. Accessible yet rigorous, it offers a bold, solution-driven framework showing how protecting humanity's most vital resource demands both ethical commitment and economic ingenuity.

This book provides a comprehensive picture of sustainable development in Northeast India, focusing on historical context, traditional knowledge systems, and contemporary challenges. As a region characterized by unique environmental and geographical peculiarities, Northeast India presents both opportunities and constraints in achieving sustainable growth. This book presents a multidimensional exploration of sustainable development in Northeast India, bridging indigenous traditions with contemporary challenges. It begins with the foundations of sustainability, highlighting theoretical perspectives, traditional agricultural practices, sacred groves, and community philosophies that shape resilience across the region.

The second section delves into environmental, economic, and social dimensions, examining climate change impacts, ecosystem services, livelihood diversification, skill development, vocational education, and women’s empowerment. Case studies on tea plantation workers, MGNREGA, and cross-border trade illustrate how sustainability intersects with equity, employment, and regional policy.

The final section expands to education, health, and inclusive development, addressing disparities in healthcare, educational vulnerability during the pandemic, poverty among the self-employed, and pathways through financial inclusion and access to credit. Together, these chapters provide a holistic view of the region’s progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging with sustainability through a regional lens, this book fosters transparency and public awareness, promotes innovation and adaptation, ensures inclusivity and equity, and contributes valuable insights to global knowledge frameworks.

This collection provides a holistic understanding of sustainable development in Northeast India, addressing key challenges and proposing practical solutions. Beyond merely describing sustainability challenges, this book offers policy-driven solutions that can inform decision-making at the regional and national levels. Designed to be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, academics, and students, it aims to shape discourse on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and socio-economic advancement in the region.

This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s.

While effective against pollution, the new regulatory system led to economic decline, antagonism in the business community and political division. The book traces and compares US policies with more successful policies adopted by the EU in the 1990s. With an afterword reviewing the dramatic events of the second Trump administration, the book suggests future pathways for reducing polarization and promoting reform.

This Handbook proposes an innovative and much-needed approach to the scholarship in humanities and social sciences that is entirely based on the phenomena of breath, breathing, and air. By offering an interdisciplinary perspective based in breathing, it develops new theories for a novel field of critical respiratory humanities and social sciences. The handbook also analyses the key consequences of such theories for philosophy and the related fields in humanities and social sciences (cross-cultural thinking, human geography, feminism and gender studies, cultural studies and anthropology, environmental and medical humanities). This radically new direction in interdisciplinary thinking is based on an innovative vision in which breathing is brought into the very center of our concern. This paradigm opens key new perspectives on the current crisis of intersubjective and community life, environmental and health crises, and closely related global social issues.

This Handbook appeals to students and researchers. It constitutes an attempt to address the hidden, yet fundamentally present dimension of breath and breathing in our bodily and affective lives, communities and environments and to revolutionize current discourses in the humanities and social sciences by addressing and thematizing many and varied conditions of breath in times and places where it is hard to breathe.

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Climate change is transforming the lives of older people, who face increased risks from extreme heat, climate-related disasters, air pollution and shifting disease patterns.

This groundbreaking volume examines why older adults are disproportionately affected and how these vulnerabilities intersect with social, economic and health inequalities. The book also moves beyond vulnerability, showcasing older people as active contributors to climate change activism and resilience.

Bringing together international research spanning gerontology, public health, anthropology and urban planning, the book maps the rapidly developing field of ageing and climate change and outlines practical pathways for building age-inclusive climate responses.

Climate change is reshaping every part of society - and criminal justice is no exception. This groundbreaking book examines how the climate crisis is transforming policing, courts, corrections and communities, from disaster responses and harm prevention to criminalisation of protest and prison design.

Blending international examples with practical insights, it reveals the urgent dilemmas and opportunities facing criminal justice institutions as they navigate ecological upheaval, shifting priorities and political pressures. It is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and scholars seeking to understand and act on the challenges of delivering justice in a rapidly heating world.

Land degradation affects much of the world's land and threatens the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. Many countries have pledged large-scale restoration, yet recent global assessments show that degradation continues to outpace progress. This book examines why these efforts fall short and what can be done to change course.

This book uses a comparative case-study approach to study how socioeconomic conditions shape the pace and pattern of degradation in ten countries - Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Peru, South Africa and Tanzania - that together account for nearly half of global restoration commitments. Using a framework that combines systems thinking with the DPSIR (drivers, pressures, states, impacts and responses) model, it traces how income levels, human development, historical land policies, land tenure, and structural change influence both degradation and the ability to restore land.

The contrasting histories, landscapes and development paths of the countries studied reveal why similar restoration pledges produce different outcomes. By linking institutions and social conditions to environmental change, the book highlights the factors that enable or hinder meaningful progress toward addressing land degradation.

Health and illness are universal human experiences, yet how they are understood, perceived, and lived varies widely across individuals and populations. These differences are shaped by the social, cultural, and environmental contexts in which people live, as well as by the choices they make throughout the life course. Health behaviors?whether protective or harmful?play a pivotal role in shaping health outcomes. Behaviors such as dietary practices, alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, sexual health behaviors, medication adherence, preventive screening, and vaccination can either reduce vulnerability to disease or heighten health risks. Understanding these behaviors across both healthy and at?risk populations remains a central priority in public health and is essential to improving population health worldwide.

Equally important, individual behavior does not occur in isolation. As emphasized by the World Health Organization, health is profoundly shaped by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. Social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors systematically influence health opportunities and outcomes, contributing to persistent health inequities. These broader determinants of health?and their intersections with individual behavior?form a central focus of this handbook and the wider series.

This volume is the inaugural title in a handbook series on health behavior and illness prevention, commissioned by Springer in Singapore. It brings together authoritative, interdisciplinary perspectives on core health concepts, health behavior, environmental health, health promotion, health literacy, intervention design, and research methods. Structured across three books and multiple thematic parts, the series provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing health behavior and illness prevention at individual, community, and societal levels.

The present handbook addresses foundational concepts of health, the nature and determinants of health behavior, and the environmental conditions that shape both. It integrates theory with practice and adopts a critical, equity?focused perspective. Rather than privileging deficit?based or individual?blame models, the volume situates health?compromising behaviors within broader structural and systemic contexts. For example, limited health literacy may reflect unequal access to education, which itself is often rooted in marginalization, poverty, and power imbalances. By unpacking these deeper drivers, the handbook advances a more just and nuanced understanding of health behavior.

Contributors include leading researchers, educators, and practitioners specializing in health, health behavior, and environmental health. Their collective expertise enriches current understanding of health and illness prevention and offers evidence?informed insights to support policy, practice, and research. This handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, and professionals across the health sciences who seek to advance health equity and improve population well?being globally.

A unique comparison of how people living in the shadow of volcanoes and those residing continents away experience and live with their effects

In 1815, when the volcano Tambora in what was then the East Indies erupted, it precipitated global cooling that lasted for several years and led to one of the great subsistence crises in the western world. In the vicinity of the volcano itself, the eruption had equally devastating but differently interpreted effects. Surviving local accounts in the form of syair, epic Malay poetry, interpreted the cataclysm as divine punishment for everyday violations of traditional social orders.

Through the histories of three Indonesian volcanoes-Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa; Krakatau, with its catastrophic 1883 eruption, off the west coast of Java; and Merapi, which is in a state of near-continuous eruption in Central Java-Michael R. Dove compares the global perception of massive eruptions as an incomprehensible break in normality with local villagers' practice of "domesticating" and thereby adapting to and wresting a livelihood from volcanic activity. Given the historic role of volcanoes as climate-forcing agents, this comparison offers a lesson in how local communities can understand and respond to a global phenomenon like environmental change.

This book examines the national approaches of carbon markets in Asia and industry perspectives of carbon market developments in ASEAN. It draws policy insights into developing a carbon market regime for those countries across ASEAN and Asia that intend to introduce a carbon market and also discusses ways of linking a country carbon market to a regional and global market. Apart from carbon market developments at national level, it elicits perspectives on implementing a carbon market for industries such as the textile, aviation and renewable energy industry and discusses challenges and opportunities of implementing a regional carbon market. This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of carbon market developments at national level in Asia and specific perspectives about carbon trading at industry level in ASEAN. By providing empirical findings of carbon markets in operation and policy insights, this book presents practical directions towards the implementation of carbon markets across ASEAN and Asia.

Wie Philosophie im Zeichen der Klimakrise betreiben? Wie die Geschichte der Aufklärung erzählen, wenn mit ihr zugleich die Grundlagen für das Zeitalter der Verbrennung fossiler Energien gelegt wurden? Und warum entwickelte die Moderne Ideen wie Fortschritt und Freiheit losgelöst von ihren materiellen Bedingungen? Die Beiträge in diesem Band von u. a. Jacob Blumenfeld, Alyssa Battistoni, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Eva Horn, Iwona Janicka, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Kohei Saito und Eva von Redecker gehen diesen grundsätzlichen Fragen sowie alternativen Denkentwürfen nach, die im Kanon der Philosophie keinen Platz gefunden haben. Eine Neujustierung der Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte im Zeichen der planetaren Krise.

Addressing the world's major environmental threats - from climate change to species loss and the destruction of ecosystems - is not only an ecological or economic matter. It is also a profoundly political one. States, international organizations, citizens and businesses across the Global North and South have a stake. How do economic and political processes impact environmental progress? And how do we bring about a green transformation that is both economically sound and fair?

Robert Falkner provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the political and economic forces shaping global efforts to green the economy. Drawing on insights from political economy, international relations and environmental and ecological economics, he introduces readers to the key concepts, actors and institutions in environmental politics at the national and international levels. And he shows how transnational economic flows - across energy, trade, investment and finance - and their global governance influence environmental efforts. This balanced yet critical account of current debates provides a pathway to an environmentally sustainable global economy.

Green Political Economy offers an astute introduction to the global green transformation for students of political science, international relations, environmental studies, development studies and political economy.