Environment and Development Textbooks
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Conservation and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
How can we reconcile environmental conservation and economic development? This book asks what is entailed in approaching environmental conservation and economic development simultaneously, and how that changes our understanding of conservation and development. It does this by exploring the outcomes...
To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Understanding Human Ecology
A Systems Approach to Sustainability
We are facing hugely complex challenges – from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human ecology promises an approach to these complex challenges, a way to understand these problems holistically and to start to manage...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Climate change is the defining developmental challenge of our times. First, its impacts threaten to reverse hard won developmental achievements of past decades. Poor countries and peoples will generally be hit soonest and hardest despite them contributing least to causing the problem. Second, our...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Environmental Security
Approaches and Issues
Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental...
Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Children, Citizenship and Environment
Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere,...
Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Food and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last thirty years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence, some people have too much food and die from...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Smart Development in Asia
Transition to Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economies
Asia is rapidly becoming a major contributor of global greenhouse gas emissions. Also many countries in the region are highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. With a growing consensus that there is limited time to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists, engineers, economists and...
Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Environmental Governance
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that...
Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Low Carbon Transport in Asia
Strategies for Optimizing Co-benefits
Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain. Within developing Asia, the key to averting such a crisis lies in low carbon transport. China, India and Asia's other emerging economies could promote fuel efficient vehicles, public transport, and sustainable...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Global Political Ecology
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
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Water Resources and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change. Water Resources and...
Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Conducting Research in Conservation
Social Science Methods and Practice
Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for...
Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Green Development
Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World, 3rd Edition
The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. This third...
Published July 29th 2008 by Routledge
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Green Development
Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World, 3rd Edition
The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. This third...
Published July 29th 2008 by Routledge