Environment and Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives and Issues
Redaktion: Verma, Manish K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000486391
• Artikelnr.: 62801714

Autorenporträt

Manish K. Verma is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Perspectives on environment and sustainable
development 1. Environmental education for sustainability: Environment
literacy and action-oriented teaching 2. The trilemma of energy justice 3.
Heteronormative exclusions in environmental concerns: Queer ecology as
critique 4. Leisure, happiness and sustainable development: A global
perspective 5. Indigenous people reclaiming their mountains: A
cross-cultural perspective Part II: Environmental issues 6. Environmental
injustice and incarceration: Notes from the United States 7. Energy and
sustainable development: Sustainability and the energy strategies and
activities of Italy and Croatia with a focus on the Adriatic region 8.
Development alternatives: A plea for mining tourism 9. Sustainability and
public policies in Brazil 10. Environmental attitudes in a neighbourhood
context: Multilevel analysis in the City of Split, Croatia 11. 'Not in my
backyard?': Challenges in the social impact assessment of the Gautrain
Rapid Rail Link Project in South Africa 12. Pollution control mechanisms:
Approaches, extent and issues at the global level 13. Technology
innovations for mitigating environmental and social impacts of oil and gas
production in Kenya Part III: Sustainable development and the people 14.
Global environmental concerns of contract farming: Need for sustainable
development in agricultural practices in India 15. Mainstreaming gender in
climate change: Discourse and actions 16. Working environment and
childbirth: An exploration of sexual inactivity in contemporary Japan 17.
Droughts and adaptation strategies: Challenges for small and marginal
farmers