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Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "water wars," shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly important role in rebuilding trust after...
To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency...
To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge
Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analysed in this innovative volume. Comprised of twelve commissioned...
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 21st 2013 by Routledge
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 August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades. This title, first published in 1986, deals with the critical issues surrounding nature conservation and wildlife protection. The book is broad in scope, with a focus on the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside...
To Be Published September 8th 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
As a result of increasing pressures from globalisation, consumption levels, the expanding gap between rich and poor and contestation for property rights and use, the world’s natural resources are under threat. Over-exploitation, mismanagement and degradation have had a severe impact, most...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for the book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
This comprehensive Handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
