Environmental Health, Education and Society
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Communicating Environmental Patriotism
A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Coping with Population Challenges
Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the year 2050. The question is therefore no longer the traditional one of whether the planet can support...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Design Education for a Sustainable Future
Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a...
Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises
Everyday Politics of Crisis Response
Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies
Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Ecological Public Health
Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health
What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...
Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Environmental Education
Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment
Questions and issues about and around the environment and its sustainability are dizzying in their complexity—and urgency. Consequently, environmental education has probably never been more crucial. Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Environmental Social Work
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate...
Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Formal Peace and Informal War
Security and Development in Congo
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule,...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Gender and Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led...
To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Global Corruption Report: Education
Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realizing the right to education and to reaching the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Corruption not only distorts access to education, but affects the quality of education and the reliability...
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education
Learning in an Age of Transformation
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
As the transformation towards sustainability is a societal learning process, education in general and higher education in particular have become the place in which future key agents of change are educated. This book asks how we can equip students and scholars with the capabilities to contribute to...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Introduction to Environmental Management
for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management
This endorsed handbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail. Includes sample NEBOSH questions and case studies to aid learning Up to date and aligned with the revised 2012 specification Over 100 images,...
Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Participatory Action Research
Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry
This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...
Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
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Participatory Workshops
A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas and Activities
This sourcebook is for all who work with others on participatory learning and change. Written in a spirit of critical reflection and serious fun, it provides 21 sets of ideas and options for facilitators, trainers, teachers and presenters, and anyone who organises and manages workshops, courses,...
Published April 30th 2002 by Routledge
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Population Studies
Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and...
Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Reconsidering the Bicycle
An Anthropological Perspective on a New (Old) Thing
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of...
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Reconsidering the Bicycle
An Anthropological Perspective on a New (Old) Thing
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of...
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Statelessness and Citizenship
Camps and the Creation of Political Space
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
In-depth field research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the boundaries between statelessness and citizenship are fluid and contingent. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainability for Healthcare Management
A Leadership Imperative
Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order...
Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
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The Community Development Reader
2nd Edition
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a...
Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Connected City
How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis
Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life
The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. The book focuses on three...
Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
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The Sustainable University
Progress and prospects
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties. This book seeks to inspire positive change in higher education by exploring the rich notion of the sustainable university and illustrating pathways through which...
Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge