Sustainable Development Further Reading
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Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development
Learning Journeys in Conservation
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological,...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainability
If It's Everything, Is It Nothing?
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
Humans are not living within our ecological means. We are using the earth’s resources at a pace that cannot be maintained. We have already seen evidence of the fallout associated with ecological overconsumption and continued abuse of environmental systems will create increasing challenges both...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...
Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Crisis of Global Sustainability
Series: Global Institutions
This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability. Crisis of Global...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation
The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa
Improving Quality and Access for the Poor
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost....
Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...
Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Contested Agronomy
Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Development
Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
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The Limits to Scarcity
Contesting the Politics of Allocation
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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The Limits to Scarcity
Contesting the Politics of Allocation
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Rice Biofortification
Lessons for Global Science and Development
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Biofortification – the enrichment of staple food crops with essential micronutrients – has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the problem of micronutrient deficiency or 'hidden hunger'. Considerable attention and resources are being directed towards the biofortification of rice –...
Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
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Rice Biofortification
Lessons for Global Science and Development
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Biofortification – the enrichment of staple food crops with essential micronutrients – has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the problem of micronutrient deficiency or 'hidden hunger'. Considerable attention and resources are being directed towards the biofortification of rice –...
Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
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Dynamic Sustainabilities
Technology, Environment, Social Justice
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...
Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
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Dynamic Sustainabilities
Technology, Environment, Social Justice
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...
Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
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Dynamic Sustainabilities
Technology, Environment, Social Justice
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...
Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
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After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Series: Natural Resource Management Set
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
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 September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Sustainable Development Set
Series: Earthscan Library Collection
Earthscan's pre-eminent position at the forefront of sustainability publishing is represented in this twenty volume set. Bringing together the key original writings on sustainable development, the volumes include a variety of works authored by development organizations like the UNEP, WWF and...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Crisis and Opportunity
Environment and development in Africa
Series: Aid and Development Set
Winner of the Prix Pierre Chauleur of the French Academie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer Until some way is found of dealing with Africa's catastrophic environmental crises none of the continent's other problems will find a long-term solution. Yet there is hope, and Crisis and Opportunity sets out a...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability?
Series: Tourism Environment and Development
Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably...
Published August 25th 2009 by Routledge
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Understanding Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is notoriously difficult to grasp for students and professionals. Multidimensional, encompassing social, ecological and economic theories, policies and practice, it can be a maze of complexity and contradiction. This powerful new textbook, by a topic instructor in the field,...
Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge
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Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks
The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The...
Published April 29th 2008 by Routledge
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An Introduction to Sustainable Development
This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global...
Published October 28th 2007 by Routledge
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Governance for Sustainable Development
A Foundation for the Future
As the process of globalization continues and power imbalances between decision-making institutions become increasingly apparent, the need for a critical assessment of the way in which we manage our interaction with the natural environment becomes ever more urgent. Good governance was identified at...
Published May 31st 2005 by Routledge
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International Investment for Sustainable Development
Balancing Rights and Rewards
International Investment for Sustainable Development critically examines the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment. It challenges the conventional view that foreign direct investment is a 'miracle drug' for developing countries and exposes...
Published October 31st 2004 by Routledge
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Exploring Sustainable Development
Geographical Perspectives
Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is...
Published July 31st 2004 by Routledge
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Mapping Vulnerability
Disasters, Development and People
Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters...
Published December 31st 2003 by Routledge
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Just Sustainabilities
Development in an Unequal World
Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power...
Published September 30th 2001 by Routledge
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Instruments of Change
Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development
Instruments of Change examines the use of incentive systems and improved institutional arrangements to protect the environment and conserve natural resources, as a means towards sustainable development....
Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge