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The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from the perspective of food prices in the short run, but also from the perspective of sustainability and...
To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Reference Collections
This four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society's changing needs. It brings together in one collection a series of papers that have helped to shape thinking on forests as a key sustainable...
To Be Published September 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs...
To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Managing the transition towards sustainable enterprise is a daunting task for corporations and business leaders. Uniquely combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective, by considering the extent to which the ‘business case’ for sustainability can be proven. Drawing...
To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010’s Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD’s initial 1992 framework of global ABS governance established the objective of sharing the...
To Be Published October 10th 2013 by Routledge
Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional ‘ecosystem services’, from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet across the world, these resources are...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Whales and elephants are iconic giants of the marine and terrestrial animal world. Both are conspicuous representatives of wildlife conservation. The issues of whaling and the ivory trade are closely linked, both legally and politically, in many ways; some obvious, and some surprising. The...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. There is great uncertainty regarding its future impacts on a planetary scale and the extent to which each eco-system and region will be affected. Although there has been much published on climate change mitigation policies,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
This book is the first to provide a focused examination of climate change adaptation in rural regions of the global South. By employing an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the traditions of political economy and political ecology, it argues that current approaches to climate change adaptation...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development
Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
