Environment & Sustainability

What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health – drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles.
 

The concept and practice of sustainable development is of global importance today. The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns.

Carbon dioxide and climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is oftentimes remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using spectacular visual imagery, 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and communities.

As interest has increased in topics such as the globalization of the agrifood system, food security, and food safety, the subjects of food and agriculture are making their way into a growing number of courses in disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities, like sociology and food studies.

International maritime transportation is the backbone of the world globalized economy. A significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but likely to be affected by wide-ranging and potentially devastating climate change. From the scientific background to port adaptation for climate change and cross-cutting issues such as financing and investment, technology and energy security,this book is essential reading for professionals in the transportation industry, governments and policymakers, trade bodies, investors, researchers and students.

Hyde's unmatched volume reaches far beyond the growing field of forestry economics; it explains what forestry can do to regional development and environmental conservation and what external policies in other sectors and the macro-economy can do to forestry.