Resource Management - Environmental Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People

   Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil

   By Barbara J. Cummings

   Series: Sustainable Development Set

   The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Transboundary Risk Governance

   By Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd, Ylva Uggla

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa

   Managing for Products and Services

   Edited by Emmanuel N. Chidumayo, Davison J. Gumbo

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management

   An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

   Edited by Geoffrey Gooch, Per Stålnacke

   One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from Better Management of Rivers

   Edited by Jamie Pittock

   Series: Climate and Development Series

   Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world. The papers in this volume present a powerful case for and exploration of different freshwater adaptation strategies in the face of global climatic change. The volume centres on six detailed case...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use

   By Renate Schubert

   Biofuels have been represented by some as a silver bullet to the climate change threat, and by others as a fatal mistake set to destroy forests and increase hunger; they are neither. Sane and sensibly developed they offer a chance to reduce emissions, generate employment and diversify rural...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Lessons from Forest Decentralization

   "Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific"

   Edited by Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram, Doris Capistrano

   The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries described in this book presents rich and varied experience with...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Water Governance for Sustainable Development

   Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries

   By Stefano Farolfi

   Edited by Sylvain Perret, Rashid Hassan

   Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Unwelcome Harvest

   Agriculture and pollution

   By Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the ?blue-baby? syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Multifunctional Rural Land Management

    Economics and Policies

    Edited by Floor Brouwer, C. Martijn van der Heide

    The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts. Many interested parties, including farmers, nature conservationists, rural residents and tourists, compete for the same space. Especially in densely populated areas, agriculture, recreation, urban...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge