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This book sets out to unpack the human skills, qualities and practices necessary for sustainability leadership and change-making in these complex and urgent times.

Told through the authors’ own experiences of being involved in sustainability and change processes over many years, as well as their shared experience in sustainable leadership education, the book explores the intersections between leadership, sustainability, complexity thinking and more. The chapters present a theoretically grounded framework for understanding sustainability leadership ? from creativity to collaboration, self-reflection to dialogue across diversity, fostering care and courage, and how we can enable and build these qualities in ourselves and others. Peppered through the book are also conversation excerpts with other sustainability leaders who share insights into their real-life experiences of change-making ? the messy, the complex and the beautiful.

A must read for anyone interested in making change ? social change makers, business educators, government officials, and other practitioners interested in creating change towards sustainability, whether that be in a formal leadership role or through informal efforts to shift the system and improve the lives and wellbeing of people and planet in partnership.

Environmental degradation has been part of American life for centuries, and yet environmental journalism as a specialized reporting beat has only existed since the 1960s. In the ensuing decades, the environment has fallen in and out of favor as a priority for news organizations. Moreover, journalists who pursue environmental stories have long been dogged by a reputation that they are activists, a charge that delegitimizes their labor and further undermines the potential for news organizations to commit to reporting on environmental issues.?
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In?The Environmental Beat: Inside the Struggle to Legitimize the Environment as News, Suzannah Evans Comfort examines the circumstances under which news organizations chose to invest in environmental journalism since the early 20th?century, demonstrating that a combination of external social factors and internal newsroom dynamics must occur for the environment to appear as a newsworthy topic. Comfort also examines actors on the margins of journalistic legitimacy, such as newspaper outdoor columnists who wrote on the sports pages, and environmental advocacy presses that provided a far more consistent source of environmental news making than their peers in the newsroom. These low-status actors in the journalistic field embraced advocacy and rejected both-siderism in their reporting on issues of the environment. Their consistency and longevity, even as more traditionally produced news attention waxed and waned, may provide an explanation for the perception of environmental news making as fundamentally activist.?
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The Environmental Beat?will be of interest to working journalists as well as scholars of journalism.
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Decarbonization That Works: From Targets to Results turns climate commitments into operational results. Drawing on the author’s two decades of experience implementing decarbonization programs across Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global institutions, it addresses the central challenge facing organizations: how to translate net-zero commitments into decisions, budgets, and sustained action.

The book follows the same structure practitioners use in the real world: identifying emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3); reducing them through energy, fuels, materials, and operations; and then addressing residual emissions through carbon markets and removals. It moves from technical solutions to leadership, workforce capability, governance, and institutional design, providing a practical system for decision-making: how to prioritize, sequence, finance, and implement decarbonization strategies across portfolios and supply chains. Part I addresses why action is required and what must be reduced, while Parts II and III focus on how organizations operationalize, govern, and replicate successful interventions across portfolios, supply chains, and geographies. The book includes decision tools, frameworks, and methodologies already applied across logistics, manufacturing, technology, buildings, and public-sector infrastructure.

This book is a comprehensive, implementation-ready guide for executives, engineers, policymakers, and sustainability leaders responsible for delivering measurable emissions reductions. It reflects experience from programs that achieved TRUE Zero Waste certification, ILFI Zero Carbon certification, verified emissions reductions, and multi-million-dollar operational savings.

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.

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 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 practical book introduces and defines environmental custodianship: working alongside others to care for people and nature so that future generations inherit a better planet.

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in nature conservation and leadership development, Alison Barnes and Jonathan Males present an inclusive and collaborative approach to leadership that is open to anyone willing to take shared, long-term responsibility for the living world- whether in business, influencing policy, conservation projects, or community life. Offering insights from interviews with 15 environmental leaders from the UK, Australia, and Canada, How to be an Environmental Custodian takes readers on a journey: from clarifying personal values and finding a place to act, through to developing strategies for change and sustaining the people who carry it forward. It sets out a framework of five leadership styles, which help the reader to practically convene people and bring them together, deliver tangible outcomes, and advocate and influence. The authors also explore potential barriers to action and point to ways to overcome or reframe them.

Providing real-world case studies and a range of practical tools and frameworks, this book is a great resource for environmental and sustainability professionals, land managers, policymakers, community leaders, and the coaches and consultants who support them. It is also suitable for academics and students in environmental studies, sustainable leadership, and community development.

Tracing the invention of sheepdogs in the UK, and their journey to New Zealand and back again, this book shows how sheepdogs, shepherds, and the countryside evolve in response to global agriculture, rural cultures, and soundscapes.

This book offers a unique, empirically rich understanding of how sheepdogs, shepherds, and the landscapes they work in co-produce sheepdog cultures that circumnavigate the world. The book’s benefit lies in showing how global sheepdog cultures evolve through multispecies relations, offering new understandings of rural change, mobility, and soundscapes. It delivers this through a distinctive blend of historical research, multispecies ethnography, and sonic geography, combining archival materials, interviews, field observations, and analysis of sheepdog trialling, shepherding, media, and rural events. Each chapter shows, in detail, how sheepdogs function as cultural, economic, and affective resources and provides comparative insights into how working dogs adapt and transform rural life under pressure from climate change, afforestation, labour shifts, and agricultural modernisation. In bringing these materials together, the book equips scholars, students, and sheepdog enthusiasts with a powerful framework for understanding the global evolution of sheepdogs and the wider multispecies rural worlds they help to create.

The book will appeal to all dog lovers, researchers, and practitioners working in human?animal studies, rural and cultural studies, agricultural policy, and working-dog training, as well as shepherds, rural organisations, and anyone curious about the evolution, movement, and cultural significance of sheepdogs across diverse landscapes.

Offering a unique examination of India’s democratic political system by using the dual premises of justice and sustainability, this book argues that India's democratic trajectory ? and the sustainability of democratic governance ? depends on its capacity to deliver social, economic, and ecological justice to all citizens.

India has a sustained record of democracy, unparalleled among postcolonial democracies, and is counted among the five largest economies in the world. Such successes, however, have been tempered by issues of inequity, resource depletion, and climate-induced displacement. Against this backdrop, the book posits that a mere procedural understanding of democracy is increasingly inadequate to address the challenges of growing inequality or climate disruption in India. The chapters in the volume explore how parties, identity politics, gender, education, economic, and foreign policies intersect with justice and sustainable goals, challenging technocratic accounts of sustainability that detach environment from society. In doing so, the book ultimately provides a nuanced understanding of the challenges faced, and strengths needed, to stabilize India’s democratic present, and to ensure its just and sustainable future.

Ultimately through its exploration of the conceptual nexus between democracy, justice, and sustainability, this book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of South Asian politics, environmental politics, and studies of India, as well as those interested in issues of democracy, justice, and sustainability more broadly.

Connected Histories of Oil in Latin America provides a global history of oil in Latin America, from the first oil fields drilled in Peru in the 1860s to the current exploitation at the offshore and tropical forest frontier, reframed through a non-Eurocentric perspective.

Offering a new geographic viewpoint, the book builds a place for the Global South in the narratives of the global energy transitions of the Anthropocene, going beyond the Eurocentric models that tend to drive all aspects of this history back to Great Britain's first industrialization and U.S. capitalism. It demonstrates how petroleum has been a central component for the shaping of nationalist and emancipatory projects in Latin America throughout the 20th century. By incorporating insights from environmental history, labor history, and the energy humanities, the book argues that Latin American societies actively shaped global fossil-fuel modernity rather than merely adapting to it, revealing oil as a profoundly transnational phenomenon. Organized in four parts - Epochs, Places, Actors and Archives, the book moves away from nation-centered and economy-focused narratives, highlighting landscape, environment, culture, and technology as central elements of analysis.

This book is important reading for students and scholars from social sciences and energy humanities, as well as public policy makers and a wider audience interested in current environmental issues.

Securitizing Energy Resources and Critical Raw Materials: Natural Gas and Rare Earths explores what it takes for a natural resource to become securitized, and a source of conflict, through the examples of rare earths and natural gas.

Under what circumstances do natural resources become securitized? Why have rare earths and natural gas become securitized? Why have rare earths gradually made it to the limelight of the international security agenda? How does this affect the behavior of great powers such as the US and China? The aim of this book is to answer questions like these through an array of case studies, such as the Rare Earth Crisis in 2010, climate securitization during President Biden’s administration, rare earths securitization during President Trump’s current administration (2025?2029), natural gas securitization during the Russo-Ukrainian dispute, as well as natural gas securitization in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through analyzing the securitization process and the actors’ behavior in each of the cases and comparing the natural gas cases with the rare earths ones, the book provides a deeper understanding of the drivers of securitization and how it shapes regional and global politics. Additionally, a Natural Resources Index of Conflict (NRIC) is presented as a way to quantify the likelihood of conflict over natural resources, beyond rare earths and natural gas.

Securitizing Energy Resources and Critical Raw Materials will be of great interest to students and scholars of politics and international relations, particularly those working on energy politics, environmental politics and security studies.

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 examines the transformative role of genetics in health, prevention of diseases and climate change. It bridges the gap between genomic research, biotechnology and environmental health, and shows how genetic insight can lead to particular medical advances, permanent health services, and climate change-oriented solutions. With CRISPR, Gene Therapies and Pharmacogenomics, focusing on state-of the-art advances, this book offers a comprehensive and approachable perspective on the future of genetics and global health in environments impacted, even dominated by climate change.

This transdisciplinary book explores how climate extremes?specifically extreme heat and urban flooding?are experienced, governed, and resisted within African informal settlements.

Focusing on the nexus of environmental stress, public health inequities, infrastructural fragility, and adaptation politics, the authors unpack how these converging crises disproportionately affect marginalised urban populations and expose the limitations of dominant climate governance models. The book takes Cape Town as its principal empirical site, particularly the informal settlements of Khayelitsha, Philippi, and Masiphumelele. These settlements serve as “urban laboratories” through which the book investigates the everyday, embodied, and gendered impacts of climate change. While deeply grounded in the Cape Town context, the book also draws comparative insights from similarly climate-vulnerable and socially complex informal settlements in Lagos (Makoko), Nairobi (Kibera and Mukuru), Accra (Agbogbloshie), and Dhaka (Korail), situating African experiences within a broader Global South urban adaptation discourse. The book is structured around eight thematic chapters, each advancing a layered understanding of climate risk and resilience through different empirical, theoretical, and methodological lenses. Through this multi-layered exploration, Climate Change, Health, and Adaptation in African Informal Settlements positions informal settlements not as passive recipients of adaptation, but as generative sites of innovation, knowledge, and political agency. It offers a compelling and much-needed intervention into both academic and policy debates, arguing that reimagining climate adaptation from the margins is not only possible?it is essential.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban development, climate justice, health equity, and environmental governance.

This introductory environmental science textbook examines how the needs of daily life affect the ecological interactions of the natural world. It aims to help students understand their own personal ties to the environment, preparing them to foster the development of more sustainable approaches to minimizing human impact on the natural world. Text chapters explore human impact in relation to Earth’s ecological systems and how to reduce those impacts. Chapters focus on the following topics: environmental issues in the context of earth processes, the atmosphere, biomes, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, the transfer of energy, ecological communities, and sustainable solutions in energy, agriculture, waste management, and urban development. Additional chapters introduce the field of environmental science, explain the role of evolution and extinction in shaping life on Earth today, examine how human population growth puts pressure on the environment, and support scientific literacy and basic chemistry understanding.

Designed for college students seeking an introduction to environmental science, the text is suitable for both environmental science majors and non-majors who want a more rigorous introduction to the field.

Key Features:

• Data-driven approach that integrates graphs, charts, maps, and data tables throughout the text
• Specific real-world examples that connect readers to the complexity of environmental issues and stories
• High-quality figures and illustrations that build understanding of key concepts and themes
• Bulleted summaries and glossaries of key terms in every chapter
• End of chapter multiple choice and open-ended questions designed to test understanding and encourage deeper thinking
• Web presence for students and instructors that includes lecture slides and Answers to Questions

Based on ethnographic and archival research from inland and border regions of Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), this edited volume explores frontier-making and unmaking through the interplay of state and capitalist forces, environmental change, and human and more-than-human relations.

The chapters critically examine the socio-environmental transformations associated with infrastructure development, resource extraction, and frontier expansion in Indonesian Borneo. Through case studies centring local perspectives and experiences, the chapters illustrate how frontiers are actively produced, contested, and reconfigured, highlighting the historically layered, agentive, and multispecies character of frontiers. Adopting a frontier-making and unmaking approach, the book offers a novel perspective on frontier dynamics, emphasising their temporal, relational, and more-than-human nature.

This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in anthropology, political ecology, human geography, Southeast Asian studies, and environmental humanities. Readers interested in environmental change, resource frontiers, and the social dimensions of development and conservation in tropical forest regions will also benefit.

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.

As the global climate catastrophe accelerates, economic theories struggle to offer policies for sustainable development. Japanese Political Economy of the Environment draws on Japan's experiences, struggles, and environmental constraints to illuminate a new economic vision incorporating both state and market institutions.

Tracing Japan's path from industrialization and pollution to environmental policy, this volume emphasizes real-world challenges. Part 1 (Thoughts and Theories) traces the legacy of Japanese pioneers of environmental economics such as Shigeto Tsuru and Hirofumi Uzawa, alongside K. W. Kapp's social costs and ecological Marxism. Part 2 (History and Policies) critically examines Japan's history of energy and environmental policies, the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the contemporary ‘carbon-captive political-economic structure’. These analyses highlight the decisive importance of governance in overcoming environmental crises.

Exploring Japan's theoretical and empirical insights, this book is a vital resource for scholars, students, and reflective policymakers seeking to understand and ameliorate the environmental crisis and deliver sustainable development.

This book presents a comprehensive and contemporary approach to the relationship between water, energy, and climate change, highlighting how hybrid renewable source systems (HRESs) can serve as an important foundation for a sustainable future. Starting with the basic forms of energy and the current active landscape with the imperative need for a transition to renewable energy sources (RESs), it proceeds to explore water use, the hydrological cycle, and modern challenges in water supply while at the same time examining the impact of climate change on water and energy resources. RES-based desalination and the various energy storage technologies that comprise the hybrid HRESs are key aspects of the analysis, which is complemented by examples of real-world applications on off-grid Greek islands that face challenges in meeting their water and energy needs. With a combination of theoretical knowledge, practical solutions, and field study, the book offers a rational framework for energy transition and sustainability.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of the current and predicted effects of climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME), and their impact on key sectors of the economy.

The EMME is considered a global "climate change hot-spot", with unique vulnerabilities. Despite that fact that several countries in this region have expressed serious concern about climate impacts, detailed regional environmental data and climate modelling remain limited. This book explores the physical, technological and socio-economical drivers of the climate crisis, with individual chapters devoted to key sectors, including energy systems, water resources, green economy, and the marine environment, among others. The book also documents the evolution, structure, governance, and implementation framework of the EMME Climate Change Initiative (EMME-CCI), a regional cooperative effort launched by the Republic of Cyprus in 2019, which promotes science and technology-driven regional climate action, with emphasis on transboundary projects and regional cooperation mechanisms. Particular attention is given to the EMME-CCI Regional Action Plan, and the broader conditions shaping climate action in the region.

Bringing together scientific analysis, policy perspectives, and regional case studies, this book provides a comprehensive guide for policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and students engaged in climate policy, risk management, and climate change studies more broadly.

The Energy Permacrisis investigates a series of increasingly frequent energy crises over the last 15 years - amid rapid changes in climate, energy resources, finance and politics. It employs a case study approach to highlight the rise of energy crises in middle to high-income societies that have long enjoyed access to electricity and modern transportation.

Written against the backdrop of the pandemic crash and 2022 energy inflation, Sandy Smith-Nonini provides a timely and critical analysis of how fossil fuel shocks are reshaping the political economy. Drawing on her ethnographic research, the author examines how oil dependency and trans-border kleptocracy shaped Greece's debt crisis and Puerto Rico's 2017 grid collapse while spurring social resistance. Smith-Nonini pulls together data showing the pivotal impacts of soaring gasoline prices and oil speculators in the 2008 financial crisis. She explores the under-reported role of monopoly traders in the 2021 Texas blackout and global impacts and lessons from the 2022 crisis. Three chapters analyze hydrocarbon aspects of the Ukraine, Gaza and Iran wars. Overall, the book highlights how fossil dependency threatens family livelihoods, health, vital services and economies, and points to policy solutions for a humane climate/energy transition.

Written in a journalistic style by a critical political anthropologist, The Energy Permacrisis will be of great interest to a wide range of readers including students and scholars of energy and climate change, political ecology, environmental studies, policymakers and advocates.

Revised and fully updated, Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.

The rapidly growing body of research on environmental justice has brought about a proliferation of ideas, concepts, approaches, and methodological developments. As such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students, scholars, and activists. Now in its second edition, this book is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts, they help the reader understand the foundations of the field of environmental justice studies, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. Also explored are the intersections between environmental justice and other contemporary struggles and approaches, including climate and energy justice, just transition, and justice for non-humans, as well as feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches. A brand new section on disciplinary insights provides a stepping stone for a critical and interdisciplinary study of environmental justice, and each chapter features learning outcomes, follow-up questions, and references for further reading, making the book a useful tool for both teaching and learning.

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introduction to environmental justice.

The degradation of the natural environment, highlighted through the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity decline and pollution of seas and oceans, continues to deepen. Contributing to the academic debates around the optimal environmental policy solutions to deal with the crisis, this book critically compares the approaches of environmental and ecological economics.

The contributors to the book present a comparison of the theoretical foundations and practical solutions presented by both ecological and environmental economics. The main goal of the book is to identify the essential features that distinguish the two approaches, including their central concepts of the economic figure ? homo oeconomicus and homo sustinens. The book explores how each approach equips researchers to tackle questions around reconciling the pursuit of economic growth with planetary physical limits, ecosystem valuation, renewable resources and the identification of optimal policy solutions for the European Union (EU). Ultimately, the book delineates between mainstream environmental economics as a descriptive science and ecological economics as a normative science.

The book will be an invaluable resource for readers interested in ecological economics, environmental economics and their impact on environmental protection practice.