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Series: Routledge Revivals
This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain. Chris Park places the debates surrounding acid rain in context, and examines the full implications of scientific studies and the effects of acid rain on surface waters, soils...
To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms. A drastic reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions...
To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation. Most scholarly and popular publications have painted a rather pessimistic picture about the worrisome trend. Yet a somewhat more optimistic view has emerged in the past decade...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Ontological Explorations
Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth. The author refutes the belief in combining perpetual economic growth with long-term environmental sustainability based on the premise...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of...
To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970’s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner city migration has transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern, high rise city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet the most frequently quoted understanding is from Our Common Future in 1987. This is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Two...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led...
To Be Published November 19th 2013 by Routledge
