Environment and Development Further Reading
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Resilience, Development and Global Change
Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Scaling it up
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Scaling it up
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk
Beyond Fragmented Responses
Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In...
To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Successful Adaptation to Climate Change
Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management...
Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Community Biodiversity Management
Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources
Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by...
Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas
A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM). CM is characterized by the decentralization of the decision-making process, incorporating the...
Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance
Rethinking Participation, Learning and Innovation
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
The purpose of this book is to showcase a range of approaches that consider learning and collaboration as central processes in agriculture and natural resources governance and management. These include four related and overlapping adaptive collaborative approaches – Adaptive Collaborative...
Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Development Through Bricolage
Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management
Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...
Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
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The Zeronauts
Breaking the Sustainability Barrier
A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...
Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Zeronauts
Breaking the Sustainability Barrier
A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...
Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation
Series: Earthscan Climate
This is a companion book to Earthscan’s 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international...
Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture
This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers. The purpose is ultimately to accelerate efforts towards mitigating land-based climate change....
Published November 30th 2011 by Routledge
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The Right to Water
Politics, Governance and Social Struggles
Series: Earthscan Water Text
The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Crops and Carbon
Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change
Rich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf – and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic carbon tied up in plants and in the earth, rather than being in the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. This book looks critically at...
Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
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Adaptation to Climate Change
From Resilience to Transformation
The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound...
Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge