Environmental Harm

Environmental Harm

Author: White, Rob

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2014-09-24

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1447320654

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This unique study of social harm offers a systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. The book evaluates three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (the environment) and species justice (non-human animals). It provides a critical assessment of environmental harm by interrogating key concepts and exploring how activists and social movements engage in the pursuit of justice. It concludes by describing the tensions between the different approaches and the importance of developing an eco-justice framework that to some extent can reconcile these differences. Using empirical evidence built on theoretical foundations with examples and illustrations from many national contexts, ‘Environmental harm’ will be of interest to students and academics in criminology, sociology, law, geography, environmental studies, philosophy and social policy all over the world.


Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 237

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 237

Author: W.P. de Voogt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-27

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 3319235737

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.


OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Belgium 2021

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Belgium 2021

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9264400346

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Belgium has made progress in decoupling several environmental pressures from economic growth, in improving wastewater treatment and in expanding protected areas. Regions have achieved high levels of recovery and recycling, and have pioneered circular economy policies. However, further efforts are needed to progress towards carbon neutrality, reduce air and water pollution, reverse biodiversity loss and consolidate results of circular economy initiatives.


An Environmental History of the Civil War

An Environmental History of the Civil War

Author: Judkin Browning

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 146965539X

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This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies. But here Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story, combining military and environmental history to forge a comprehensive new narrative of the war's significance and impact. As they reveal, the conflict created a new disease environment by fostering the spread of microbes among vulnerable soldiers, civilians, and animals; led to large-scale modifications of the landscape across several states; sparked new thinking about the human relationship to the natural world; and demanded a reckoning with disability and death on an ecological scale. And as the guns fell silent, the change continued; Browning and Silver show how the war influenced the future of weather forecasting, veterinary medicine, the birth of the conservation movement, and the establishment of the first national parks. In considering human efforts to find military and political advantage by reshaping the natural world, Browning and Silver show not only that the environment influenced the Civil War's outcome but also that the war was a watershed event in the history of the environment itself.


How to Think Seriously about the Planet

How to Think Seriously about the Planet

Author: Roger Scruton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0199371245

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Roger Scruton here makes a plea to rescue environmental politics from the activist movements and to return them to the people. The book defends the legacy of home-building and practical reasoning with which ordinary human beings solve their environmental problems, and attacks the alarmism and hysteria that are being used to uproot these resources, while putting nothing coherent in their place.


Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 250

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 250

Author: Pim de Voogt

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3030678520

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. Chapter “Natural Purification Through Soils: Risks and Opportunities of Sewage Effluent Reuse in Sub-surface Irrigation” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


World on the Edge

World on the Edge

Author: Lester Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 113654075X

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In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.