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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.

Discover how AI-powered solutions can transform global governance and legal systems with this essential guide to leveraging emerging technologies for peace, justice, and stronger institutional frameworks.

In a world rife with challenges like corruption, cybercrime, legal inefficiencies, human rights violations, and weak institutional frameworks, AI-powered solutions present an unprecedented opportunity to improve transparency, legal systems, and security altogether. This book explores the role of artificial intelligence as a transformative agent of peace, justice, and effective institutions. Drawing on literature from international relations, conflict studies, political science and machine learning, this book considers relationships between artificial intelligence and Sustainable Development Goal 16, focusing on how emerging technologies can support governance, law enforcement, conflict resolution, and democratic practice. Positioning itself between technological innovation and policy, this book provides actionable perspectives to leverage AI responsibly in building stronger institutions and crafting a just, peaceful society.

Readers will find the volume:

• Draws from academics, policymakers, AI researchers, and legal experts to present cutting-edge research, case studies, and policy recommendations on the applications of AI for governance;
• Explores in detail how artificial intelligence can be used to fight misinformation, improve electoral integrity, and cope with global security threats;
• Structured with thematic sections that provide a multi-disciplinary view of the effects of AI on peace, justice, and the resilience of institutions.

Audience

Government officials, international organizations, technology developers, legal practitioners, and scholars dealing with AI holistically for sustainable governance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The second edition of Environment and Society: Concepts for a Just Transformation delivers a major, timely update to one of the field’s most respected concept?driven environmental social science texts. Fully revised and significantly re-oriented to highlight concepts informing social projects in just transformation, this edition reshapes the book around an enhanced set of contemporary concepts?adding new chapters, removing outdated material, and thoroughly updating those retained?to reflect the dramatic shifts in how scholars, policymakers, and communities understand society?environment relations. With contributions from an even more globally diverse group of authors, the book now brings stronger representation from the Global South and a wider array of disciplinary perspectives.

The book examines whether today’s dominant ideas and conceptual frameworks meaningfully support a “Just Transformation” in the face of deepening environmental and climatological crises. Across eleven concept?focused chapters?ranging from justice, colonialism, and intersectionality to futures, metabolism, collective action, commons, footprints, and more?contributors offer accessible syntheses, illustrative examples, and end?of?chapter discussion topics designed for classroom use.

This edition is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across environmental studies, environmental sociology, geography, sustainability, and allied social sciences, as well as scholars seeking a clear, comparative resource on conceptual trends. It will also appeal to practitioners, NGO staff, and policy professionals who require a deeper understanding of the conceptual tools shaping environmental thinking today.

In a time of growing despair about the fate of our planet, the environmental movement known as Earth Uprisings (Les Soulevements de la terre) has emerged as a beacon of hope. Bringing together young and old from different backgrounds and walks of life, they have staged colourful processions in the countryside and taken direct action to defend the land against environmental destruction. They have risen because governments have failed to take the action needed to avert ecological disaster and because they know that by joining forces and working together, people have the capacity to bring about change. Their aim is not to 'save the planet' - this pretentious ambition is far too grand for them, and only invites feelings of powerlessness and despair. Instead, they've forged a practical, down-to-earth ecology rooted in land and territorial struggles.

Formed at a meeting of two hundred people on a ZAD (Zone to Defend) in the west of France in January 2021, Earth Uprisings has grown to become one of Europe's most influential environmental movements. This book tells their story, in their own words. It is a manifesto for those who have organized themselves to dismantle the infrastructure of environmental devastation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As the push to develop the interior reaches of the United States surged in the nineteenth century, a few visionary citizens advocated for identifying and protecting lands with superior scenery, abundant wildlife, and unique resources. Today, almost one-third of the nation's land base constitutes the American Commons, a designation that refers to our shared national resources, managed under a doctrine of public trust and manifest in the ideal of democratic governance.

Founding the American Commons traces the early history of public lands using primary source documents, allowing the actors themselves to share their opinions and motivations regarding the establishment of a "higher use" of environmental resources and the protection of our nation's natural and cultural heritage. Included are original documents from environmental pioneers including John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Chief Joseph, and Rachel Carson, as well as lesser-known individuals like Israel Ward Raymond, Franklin Hough, and Rosalie Edge. The book also includes documents representing diverse groups that have contributed to, or in some cases, been significantly impacted by the American Commons, including women, African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. Founding the American Commons guides readers through this collection of documents and key actors, providing historical context for the extraordinary events that shaped what environmental historian Alfred Runte referred to as "landscape democracy."

This book is a comprehensive guide to the greening of the economy, detailing the essential skills, jobs, and careers required to develop a thriving sustainable future.

The transition towards net zero is creating a wave of new work requiring the redeployment and repurposing of skills and jobs to decarbonise and adapt the economy. Charting this drive for the greening of skills across all sectors of the economy, each chapter in this book addresses ten key questions, taking the reader through the skills and jobs driving the transition to net zero. This book uses a range of skills frameworks to help readers understand how emerging and new competencies are being integrated into existing jobs, and case studies are drawn from across the world to show how green skills are defined and incorporated into new roles. Presenting best practices and policy insights with a strong emphasis on the strategies to overcome the barriers to the green transition, it equips readers with knowledge of the green economy’s opportunities and challenges, and guides individuals in identifying viable career paths in green and non?green sectors.

Written in a highly accessible style, this book will be a key guide for professionals, policymakers, organisations, societies, and individuals looking for clear pathways for education and training, with an emphasis on upskilling and interdisciplinary approaches.

This new textbook introduces environmental communication as a sociocultural practice and an integral part of governance processes. It promotes change-oriented, critical and reflective environmental communication practice in a way that is both accessible and relevant.

Existing textbooks emphasise instrumental and normative perspectives on environmental communication, advising readers on how to effectively communicate environmental issues to encourage more sustainable practices. This book expands on these perspectives while also introducing other approaches to understanding environmental communication that highlight its constitutive role in social change. It consists of three central themes that:

• Contextualise environmental communication within critical social science research through conceptual lenses such as social practices, governance, and power.
• Discuss different understandings of communication and conflict which are relevant for environmental communication research and practice.
• Explore what it means to do environmental communication in a complex world, from facilitating dialogue processes to navigating digital platforms and planning communication campaigns and activism.

Rich in pedagogical features, A Critical Introduction to Environmental Communication uses case study examples, reflective exercises and further reading recommendations to embed learning. Overall, it is an essential resource for students, as well as communication practitioners who are engaged with environmental governance.

This book explores how Education for Sustainability and the Environment (ESE) can form an integral part of the teaching of fiction, drama, and poetry with teenage and adult learners.

Building on posthumanism, postcritique, and resonance theory, this book answers an important question: since the environment can no longer be regarded as a fixed backdrop for human action, how can literature help students live and thrive in the Anthropocene? Engaging with empirical case studies of creative and exploratory teaching, and couched in theory drawn from pedagogy and the Environmental Humanities, the book argues that good ESE in the context of literary education must start from an understanding of what good literary pedagogy is. As such, it rejects the common search for texts that transform learners into sustainable citizens, viewing this as an instrumentalization of literature which is unsustainable in its own right. Instead, the book highlights the potential of literary reading and discussion in honing students’ capacities for critical thinking, tolerance of viewpoint diversity, and dwelling on complex societal and existential dilemmas. Its case studies feature high school and university students, practicing teachers, and students of Norwegian as a second language, who each work on high-quality texts of poetry, drama, and narrative fiction. A central aim is to provide inspiration for practitioners who wish to integrate ESE in their teaching of literature without becoming didactic or compromising on the analytical, ethical, and creative potential of imaginative literature. It features thorough descriptions of pedagogical approaches and explains how they can be adapted in diverse settings.

Sustainable Literary Classrooms will provide student teachers and teachers of literature on all levels with theoretical motivations and pedagogical ideas for integrating ESE in the literary classroom.

This book explores the synergy between Industry 5.0 and the circular economy to address global challenges in waste management and resource scarcity. It highlights Industry 5.0’s human-centric and sustainable approach, leveraging technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, and additive manufacturing to enable circular practices. Key themes include waste-to-resource innovation, policy frameworks, and ethical human?technology collaboration. Offering case studies and strategic insights, the book provides a roadmap for designing closed-loop systems that enhance resource efficiency and ecological resilience.

• Explores low-cost, decentralized Industry 5.0 applications and circular economy strategies in developing countries.
• Provides an in-depth analysis of enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, human-centric automation, and bio-inspired manufacturing.
• Discusses Gender, Equity, and Social Inclusion (GESI) perspectives, focusing on the social dimensions of circular transitions.
• Offers critical reflections on future trends, research gaps, and innovation opportunities at the intersection of digital transformation and sustainability.
• Includes illustrative case studies from diverse sectors and regions, along with policy recommendations.

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in industrial and environmental engineering.

This book explores the direct and indirect consequences of climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region across diverse socio-economic and cultural landscapes.

The EMME region is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, presenting an urgent need for comprehensive adaptation and mitigation strategies. This book focusses on the specific consequences of climate change, as well as the critical strategies for risk assessment and management across key sectors, including the built environment, public health, and agriculture. Furthermore, the book addresses the cascading effects on human, economic, and environmental systems, exploring sector-specific vulnerabilities to highlight the direct and indirect interdependencies between environmental changes and fields such as education, tourism, cultural heritage, and human migration.

This book will serve as a comprehensive guide for policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders in the EMME region. It will also be useful for students, researchers and academics studying climate policy, risk management and climate change studies more broadly.

This book examines gender and socio-spatial inequalities in the context of climate change in the European Arctic states, analysing how climate policies, governance, and adaptation responses shape uneven social impacts across different regions and communities.

It provides a critical understanding of how climate change intersects with gender and socio-spatial inequalities in the European Arctic. Drawing on feminist evaluation and feminist geography, this book combines theoretical analysis with empirical research based on policy documents and interviews. Through country case studies, this book offers a structured assessment of climate governance and adaptation responses, helping readers understand how policies translate into uneven social impacts and where gaps in inclusivity and justice remain.

Gender, Climate Change and the European Arctic is intended for researchers, students, and academics working in climate change studies, political science, gender studies, Arctic studies, and geography. It will also be relevant for policymakers, practitioners, and professionals engaged in climate governance, environmental policy, and sustainable development.

Finance and Energy Transition in Asia: Toward Net-Zero Emissions examines the critical role of finance in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon future and achieving global net-zero emissions targets.

Bringing together perspectives from energy policy, sustainable finance, and transition studies, this book explores how climate-related transition risks are reshaping the behavior of governments, financial institutions, investors, and energy companies across Asia. It investigates the implications of stranded fossil fuel assets, restrictive coal financing policies, green finance initiatives, and emerging approaches to transformative finance that seek to drive systemic change. Combining literature reviews, econometric analysis, case studies, and field research, the study assesses the impacts of net-zero transitions on industries ranging from electricity generation to critical mineral extraction. It also highlights the unintended consequences of energy transitions, including carbon leakage and cross-border spillover effects, through analyses of China’s decarbonization efforts and Indonesia’s nickel mining sector.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of sustainable finance, energy policy, environmental economics, and Asian studies, as well as policymakers, financial professionals, and practitioners seeking to understand the opportunities and challenges of financing the transition to a net-zero economy.

This book delves into India's development cooperation policy within the framework of South-South Cooperation. It examines the shifts in India's role as both a recipient and provider of development aid, highlighting the implications of its economic growth. It also explores the linkages between India's partnership initiatives and the sustainability agenda, offering insights into the evolution of its development cooperation objectives, and:

• Explores India's development cooperation policy within South-South Cooperation.
• Examines India's dual role as a recipient and provider of development aid.
• Highlights the linkages between India's partnerships and sustainability.
• Analyzes India's position in the global aid architecture.
• Provides insights into the evolution of India's development cooperation objectives.

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