Environmental Social Work

The world is witnessing climate change. As responsible citizens of planet earth, we can actively participate in the co-creation of actionable knowl...

Reducere. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in enviro...

Reducere. This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, ...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

Infused with relevant personal narratives and photographs, Social Work and Social Welfare provides a global, human rights perspective on social wel...

Crosby's landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as-and sometimes more than-human factors.

Reducere. Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the "bubble economy" and the almost decade lon...

Tells a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth...

Reducere. The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insig...

Reducere. Themes of social and environmental justice in the multimedia artworks of renowned Colombian artist Carolina CaycedoCarolina Caycedo's (born 1978) i...

In a long and versatile career spanning thirty-five years, Ramachandra Guha has produced a vast body of work. Each time, he has broken new ground-h...

DescriptionAgrarian transition, exploitative production relations, bondage in the agriculture and informal sectors, food insecurity, and poverty ar...

With climate change at the forefront of current discussion, Words of Change: CLIMATE offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and pa...

Explores ways to address personal, social and environmental concerns in simple practical steps in our daily lives, helping us to make incremental, ...

Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushi...

In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral cata...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic in...

DescriptionExtending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ec...

The ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in ac...

Reducere. Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justi...

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turni...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

Subsistence Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived experiences of people taking part in subsistence...

Reducere. Little actual work is required to provide for most human needs such as shelter, clothing, warmth, food, and water, and even new necessities, such a...

Marking the renaissance of social geographies in recent years, this major textbook showcases the breadth of conceptual and empirical approaches tha...

Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambri...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Cri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Melissa TuckeyForeword by: Camille DungyGhost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice ...

Reducere. DescriptionSpaces we live in define our identity and sense of community. Using international examples of environmental architecture and design, The...

In the wake of the tragedy of the shootings in Littleton at Columbine High School and other killings of children by children, there is increasing r...

This book serves as a critical review of SOCIAL URBANISM, defined as a socio-political and practical approach to urban globalization, deriving from...

DescriptionIn ""The Leader's 2nd Training, "" Mindell introduces tested 2nd Training Inner Work, Bodywork, Relationship, and Large Group methods fo...

Reducere. DescriptionSocial factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and ec...

The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on.- Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc, " 1816Glaciers in Amer...

Contributor(s): Author: Steve SussmanSubstance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, ...

In the 21st century, businesses are increasingly faced with complex, "wicked" problems--challenges with social and environmental dimensions they ca...

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Begi...

Reducere. Amid political, social, and environmental anxieties, the need for humor, hope, and meaningful action has never been greater. Hope Is a Verb is the ...

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...

DescriptionIn her brilliant work Touching a Nerve, Patricia S. Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, drew from scientific resea...

Reducere. In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book...

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Question...

In this book, we review a set of Plan: b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints we faced, and the interi...

Reducere. An "extremely funny...brilliantly alive" (The New York Times Book Review) social satire of the highest order from bestselling author Sam Lipsyte, c...

Reducere. Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but we cannot change it by throwing mo...

Reducere. Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and e...

DescriptionIn his 1862 eulogy for Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson reflected that his friend "dedicated his genius with such entire love to...

Reducere. This guidebook presents a framework for climate adaptation planning for coastal cities, large and small, focused on the central roles of citizens, ...

Reducere. A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save h...

Description"In this book you'll find a thoughtfully edited chronicle of the unique convergence of genetic, hormonal, social, and environmental forc...

Reducere. 'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - GRET...

Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects - Architecture Is a Social Act exp...

Reducere. Throughout the world, capitalism and democracy are being challenged with great force. The world must change, but it cannot be changed by throwing m...

Reducere. We've reached a turning point, and the stakes are high. Will we succeed in halting climate change and biodiversity loss, and in finally securing he...

Reducere. From the big bang to the 21st century, the renowned Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History provides an integrated view of human and universal hist...

This book can be a stand-alone book or used with Dr. Riffel's seminar of the same title. Dr. Riffel begins with ten rules about behavior and how th...

IndieFab awardsAn unsung prophet of today's green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations...

Reducere. DescriptionYou want to change the world. You want your work to have meaning. Maybe you're even audacious enough to want saving the world to be fun....

Updated with expanded coverage of twenty-first century architecture, this new edition uniquely comprises a detailed survey of Western architecture ...

'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of e...

DescriptionBy paying tribute to matter, materiality, and materialization, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next? Eco Materialis...

Reducere. In 21st Century Ethics, Dr. Glenn Rogers does four things: 1) provides a historical overview of the major systems of moral philosophy that have sha...

Reducere. Description: Weaving together insights from social psychology, theology, and experiences of interfaith religious leaders, Dagmar Grefe develops pra...

DescriptionThinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of top...

DescriptionIn the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options fo...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge...

Reducere. A concise introduction to the pioneering formal and social innovations of the Neoconcretist and Tropicália protagonistBrazilian artist Hélio Oitici...