Environmental Studies Textbooks
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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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Environment and Food
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth’s resources. Having a better idea of the...
Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Environmental Policy
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This second edition of Environmental Policy explains how policy can respond and bring about greater sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and...
Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge
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Environment and Economy
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might look like. In spite of the success of the environmental movement in drawing attention to the...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Environment, Media and Communication
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Communication about ‘the environment’ in and through a broad array of news, advertising, art and entertainment media is one of the major sources of public and political understanding of definitions, issues and problems associated with the environment. Environment, Media and Communication examines...
Published February 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Politics and the Environment
From Theory to Practice, 3rd Edition
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions so successful. This text is...
Published March 11th 2012 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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Environmental Justice
Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some...
Published December 14th 2011 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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Food, Globalization and Sustainability
Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of...
Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment
4th Edition
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience in EIA (...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Managing Environmental Power
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...
Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainability Assessment
Pluralism, practice and progress
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and ...
Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge
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An Environmental History of the World
Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life
This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary...
Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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Elements of Ecological Economics
Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth’s resources today. These include the problems of global warming (the...
Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management Third Edition
The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. From reluctant-but-necessary calculations of the value of life, to moral quandaries over profits at the environment’s...
Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
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Forestry Economics
A Managerial Approach
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this to the unique processes and problems faced by managers of forests. While most forestry economics books...
Published July 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Energy, Society and Environment
2nd Edition
Whilst energy use is fundamental to human existence, it is also at the heart of many environmental problems we face in the 21st century. Deteriorating air quality and the global warming phenomenon can all be attributed to our use of fossil fuels. The re-emergence of nuclear power as an alternative...
Published August 27th 2003 by Routledge
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Exploring Environmental Issues
An Integrated Approach
Global warming, ozone depletion, drought, acid rain - their causes are viewed as extraordinarily complex; their effects are assumed catastrophic. Exploring Environmental Issues provides a key to understanding our potential crisis. The concise, introductory text presents a review of current...
Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
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Liberation Ecologies
2nd Edition
At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies...
Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
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Sustainable Development
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development in the present and into the future. Answering the need for an introductory, comprehensive, yet critical book that...
Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
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Spaces of Sustainability
Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
Spaces of Sustainability is an engaging and accessible introduction to the key philosophical ideas which lie behind the principles of sustainable development. This topical resource discusses key contemporary issues including global warming, third world poverty, transnational citizenship and...
Published October 25th 2006 by Routledge
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Environment and Social Theory
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory, completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another. This popular text...
Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
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Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment
3rd Edition
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is now firmly established as an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful EIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the...
Published March 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Environmental Values
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are...
Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge
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Environment and Politics
3rd Edition
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Environment and Politics is a concise introduction to the study of environmental politics, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. The authors examine a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and...
Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
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Environmental Modelling
An Uncertain Future?
Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management. However, it is often ignored...
Published July 20th 2008 by CRC Press