Background: Increasing environmental crises in recent centuries have endangered human lives and creatures on Earth, and these crises are increasingly widespread and can lead to irreparable events across the globe. So, though, chocolate needs a little self-care and a constructive and ethical interaction with the environment to preserve it. The attention to environmental ethics began around the w...

In this paper mortality crises in a rural area in southern Sweden are analysed by using a new approach. We start off with a combined life-event and time-series analysis approach in which the influences of food prices, agricultural production and air temperature on mortality by age, sex and socio-economic status is analyzed, much in line with our previous work. Special attention is given to year...

M. Gross and H. Heinrichs (eds.), Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract For quite some time environmental sociology has been preoccupied with understanding the fundamental causes of environmental crises. It is only since the 1990s that attention has shifted stronger t...

newly industrializing economies (NIEs) is vast, rich, and highly contentious. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the literature on industrial pollution management in these economies. (These NIEs include China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan1, Thailand, and Singapore.) To begin with, there are relatively few studies of industrial pollution management in the East Asia...

A core idea of World Heritage is to ensure that the places most iconic and valuable humanity outlast all crises are conserved across generations. Today we face perhaps our biggest challenge yet, an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history, at its centre climate change.

Often, systemic banking crises initiate from one or more banks and affect countries by rapid spreading in the banking network, financial markets and economy of countries. According to Reinhart & Rogoff (2009) in the book titled "This time is Different," financial crises are pointed as an equal opportunity menace for high-income countries and emerging markets. Although The International Mo...

Geopolitics is about how the world is understood politically at the planetary scale. It is simultaneously a term that refers to great power rivalries and the knowledge and representational practices that legitimate that mode of rule. Now in the face of climate change the premises for thinking about human politics have been dramatically changed, even if many political elites and scholars have ye...