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Series: CRESC
From food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives. It has become central to processes of contemporary socio-material living. Universalised and abstracted, it is often treated as the passive object of political deliberations, or a problematic material demanding...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how...
To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that...
To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
This book looks at the transition from New Labour’s ‘Spatial Planning’ approach to the Coalition Government’s preferred ‘Localism’ approach. Localism we are told will liberate local planners from the heavy hand of central government and allow planning to flourish at the local level. Alternatively,...
To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
This book examines the topic of sustainable consumption, an important emerging topic in the academic discourse on sustainable development and global environmental change. Throughout the book, transdisciplinary insights from sociology, geography and political science are developed to highlight major...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: New Political Economy
Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S....
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
How does environmentalism square with traditions regarding security? This book offers a political sociology of the emergence and proliferation of ecoterrorism. The question posed here is not what should be done about the problem of individuals or groups who come to use violent means in support of...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy...
To Be Published October 24th 2013 by Routledge
This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the question of the relationships between sustainability and the capability approach. It is rather astonishing that the issue of sustainability first posed by the Brundtland commission in 1987 has gained so little attention from capability scholars...
To Be Published October 27th 2013 by Routledge
Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and ‘crimes against nature’ has become an increasingly popular area of study amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
