Environment and Sustainability

Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by David Jensen, Stephen Lonergan

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or...

Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

Coastal Erosion and Protection in Europe

Edited by Enzo Pranzini, Allan Williams

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands. This book provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe and a comparative analysis of...

Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge

Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing

Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes

By Franz Schmithüsen, Bastian Kaiser, Albin Schmidhauser, Stephan Mellinghoff, Karoline Perchthaler, Alfred Kammerhofer

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-user demands and cost competitiveness within the forest and wood chain as a whole, the industry is needing to adapt. Explaining entrepreneurial action...

To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge

Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Carl Bruch, Carroll Muffett, Sandra Nichols

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Handbook of Forest Resource Economics

Edited by Shashi Kant, Janaki Alavalapati

It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil...

To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Päivi Lujala, Siri Aas Rustad

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber –the stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face...

Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge

Introduction to Natural Resource Planning

By Charles Yoe

This is an exciting time for natural resources planning. There are amazing technologies available to planners and a wide and growing array of resources, problems, and opportunities that need attention. Private and public interests are taking up these issues all over the world and at all levels of...

Published October 4th 2012 by CRC Press

Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

Land and Resource Scarcity

Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Helen Young, Lisa Goldman

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of...

To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge

Redeeming REDD

Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility for Avoided Deforestation

By Michael I. Brown

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons

The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages

By Bruce Lankford

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency...

To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge

Sustainable Forests

Edited by Jeffrey Sayer, Neil Byron, Gillian Petrokofsky

Series: Earthscan Reference Collections

This four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society's changing needs. It brings together in one collection a series of papers that have helped to shape thinking on forests as a key sustainable...

To Be Published September 24th 2013 by Routledge

The Geothermal World: Past, Present and Future

Power Plants and Geothermal Fields

Edited by Ruggero Bertani

Series: Sustainable Energy Developments

This book covers the history of geothermal science, with a special focus on electricity production. The Larderello area, the craddle of the modern geothermal industry, is particularly highlighted. A major portion of the book is devoted to geothermal energy generation in various countries with a...

To Be Published March 14th 2014 by CRC Press

Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals

A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes

Edited by Ian D. Rotherham

In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape – forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed. The book considers the history of grazed treed landscapes, of large grazing herbivores in Europe, and the implications of the past in shaping...

Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge

Tropical Peatlands

By Jack Rieley, Susan Page

Tropical peatlands are found mostly in South East Asia, but also in Africa and in Central and South America. These and peat-swamp forests store large amounts of carbon and their destruction, particularly through the development of plantations for oil palm and other forms of agriculture, releases...

To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge

Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Erika Weinthal, Jessica J. Troell, Mikiyasu Nakayama

Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "water wars," shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly important role in rebuilding trust after...

To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge