Environment and Sustainability

American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

Architecture and Energy

Performance and Style

Edited by William Braham, Daniel Willis

Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture and Energy provides architects and architectural theorists with more durable arguments for environmental...

Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge

Collective Learning for Transformational Change

A Guide to Collaborative Action

By Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert

The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history. From fields to factories to offices, people have always asked how to make things better. This innovative book offers a step by step guide for recognising the need for transformational change and kick-starting a course of...

Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

Critiquing Sustainability, Changing Philosophy

By Jenneth Parker

Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability

To increasing numbers of people, sustainability is the key challenge of the twenty-first century. In the many fields where it is a goal, persistent problems obstruct the efforts of those trying to make a difference. The task of this book is to identify the philosophical failings underlying these...

To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge

Effective Risk Communication

Edited by Joseph Arvai, Louie Rivers III

Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws...

To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge

Environmental Anthropology

Future Directions

Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the...

Published June 3rd 2013 by Routledge

Green Utopianism

Politics, Practices and Perspectives

Edited by Johan Hedrén, Karin Bradley

Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

In the last decade of planning and policy making, utopian thought and experimental approaches to the organization of society and the built environment have been rare. What has evolved instead is a firm consensus on sustainable society as something created within the framework of current society and...

Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services

By Timothy D. Schowalter

Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

With few exceptions, insects are perceived in industrialized countries as undesirable pests. In reality, relatively few insects interfere with us or our resources. Most have benign or positive effects on ecosystem services, and many represent useful resources in non-industrialized countries....

Published May 22nd 2013 by CRC Press

Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge

Making Sense of Nature

By Noel Castree

We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our...

To Be Published July 16th 2013 by Routledge

Negotiating Bioethics

The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

By Adèle Langlois

Series: Genetics and Society

The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme was established to address such issues in 1993. Since then, it...

To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge

International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism

Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon Estok, Serpil Oppermann

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...

Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge

Reconstructing Sustainability Science

Knowledge and Action for a Sustainable Future

By Thaddeus Miller

Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

Sustainability Science is an interdisciplinary, problem-driven field that seeks to address fundamental questions on human-environment interactions. Reconstructing Sustainability Science repositions sustainability science as a "science of design"—that is, a normative science of what ought to be in...

To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

Relational Architectural Ecologies

Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity

Edited by Peg Rawes

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’, ‘...

To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge

Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change

Edited by Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity’s dependence on favourable environmental conditions. Our relationships with the landscapes and ecologies that we are a part of, the plants and animals that we...

To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge

Sustainability

Principles and Practice

By Margaret Robertson

Sustainability: Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability, equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace. Each chapter presents jointly issues and solutions, which...

To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge

Sustainability Science and Technology

An Introduction

Edited by Alejandro De Las Heras, Thomas Ronald Macagno

This book builds a bridge between sustainability science and engineering. It provides the latest information on sustainability issues and solutions by discussing them from basic concepts to scientific consensus to technical solutions. It identifies and addresses the major issues related to...

To Be Published January 25th 2014 by CRC Press

The Human Capacity for Transformational Change

The Future of the Collective Mind

By Valerie A. Brown, John Harris

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Gregory Bateson and Heryk Skolwimoski and the results of the authors’ research, this book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that...

To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge

The No-Growth Imperative

Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

By Gabor Zovanyi

More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth...

Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge

Thinking through Landscape

By Augustin Berque

Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment,...

Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

The Urban Condition

By Brendan Gleeson

Series: Questioning Cities

To Be Published May 31st 2014 by Routledge