Environmental Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Waste Management in Spatial Environments

   Edited by Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'. This volume addresses waste-management and...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

   Scarcity, Marketization and Participation

   Edited by Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin, Christopher Sneddon

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

   The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Green Utopianism

   Politics, Practices and Perspectives

   Edited by Johan Hedrén, Karin Bradley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

   In the last decade of planning and policy making, utopian thought and experimental approaches to the organization of society and the built environment have been rare. What has evolved instead is a firm consensus on sustainable society as something created within the framework of current society and...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Common Pools of Genetic Resources

   Equity and Innovation in International Biodiversity Law

   Edited by Evanson Chege Kamau, Gerd Winter

   Series: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

   The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity. The CBD and the Nagoya Protocol which has since been elaborated suggest a bilateral model for access to genetic resources and...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
5. Oligopoly, the Environment and Natural Resources

   By Luca Lambertini

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
6. Development, Power, and the Environment

   Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability

   By Md Saidul Islam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   Unmasking the neoliberal paradox, this book provides a robust conceptual and theoretical synthesis of development, power and the environment. With seven case studies on global challenges such as under-development, food regime, climate change, dam building, identity politics, and security...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

   (De)constructing the Greenhouse

   Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan

   Series: Interventions

   Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing

   In Nature’s trust

   By Benjamin J. Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

   This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Environmental Journalism

    Edited by Henrik Bodker, Irene Neverla

    Series: Journalism Studies

    Environmental journalism is an increasingly significant area for study within the broader field of journalism studies. It connects the concerns of politics, science, business, culture and the natural world whilst also exploring the boundaries between the local, regional and global. A central...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge