Environment and Sustainable Development: Perspectives and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780367541828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Manish K. Verma

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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