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11. Water Policy Processes in India

    Discourses of Power and Resistance

    By Vandana Asthana

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
12. Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy

    Nihilism and Responsibility

    By Mats Andrén

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

    Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level. This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
13. Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

    Edited by Laura Anne German, Alain Karsenty, Anne Marie Tiani

    Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
14. Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts

    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental...

    Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
15. Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia

    ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution

    By Paruedee Nguitragool

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
16. Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

    Edited by John Grattan, Robin Torrence

    Series: One World Archaeology

    Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies...

    Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
17. The Ecological Modernisation Reader

    Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren

    Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological...

    Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge
18. Ecological Economics

    Edited by Clive Spash

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

    Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new four-volume Routledge Major Work brings together canonical and cutting-edge research in ecological economics. In tracing both the development of thought in the field, as well as exploring the most recent scholarship, diverse elements of the rapidly...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
19. Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

    Edited by Edwin Zaccaï

    Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

    This timely volume discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. Sustainable consumption stands as a wide objective that attracts a growing attention within sustainable development policy circles and academic research. The contributors examine a range of interesting...

    Published June 9th 2008 by Routledge
20. Economic Development, Climate Change, and the Environment

    Edited by Ajit Sinha, Siddhartha Mitra

    With contributions from renowned economists, scientists and environmentalists, this book examines the problem of environmental degradation and its relationship with economic development....

    Published January 14th 2007 by Routledge India