Geography

Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

Edited by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities

Edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel

Series: Earthscan Climate

There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change...

Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge

Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change

Ruling Nature

By Gary Wickham, Jo-Ann Goodie

The complex phenomenon known as ‘the natural environment’ is a product of a variety of discourses. This book explores the emergence of different discourses of the environment – scientific, economic, political, aesthetic, moral and legal discourses – analyzing the simultaneous separateness and...

Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge

Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources

Ecology, Economics and Policies

Edited by Thomas Koellner

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other commodities is a global challenge as the...

Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge

Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature

Green Pastures

By Todd A. Borlik

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he...

Published November 1st 2010 by Routledge

Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

By Richard Alexander

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites,...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, Ken Hiltner

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from...

Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge

Mathematics for the Environment

By Martin Walter

Mathematics for the Environment shows how to employ simple mathematical tools, such as arithmetic, to uncover fundamental conflicts between the logic of human civilization and the logic of Nature. These tools can then be used to understand and effectively deal with economic, environmental, and...

Published January 17th 2011 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

Sustainability in European Transport Policy

By Matthew Humphreys

The construction of the European Economic Communities in 1950 primarily set out to build an integrated economic zone in which national borders were, to a large extent, overcome. The ability of persons and goods to move freely within the economic zone was seminal in the realisation of economic...

Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge

Food Systems Failure

The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture

Edited by Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock, Hugh Campbell

Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial...

Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge

The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins

Defining the Limits

Edited by Myles Fisher, Simon Cook

Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book...

Published February 1st 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

Encyclopedia of the Arctic

Edited by Mark Nuttall

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and...

Published November 2nd 2004 by Routledge

Water and Disasters

Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Norio Okada

Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in view of the increasing frequency and intensity of water-triggered disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years,...

Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge

Ecological Economics

Edited by Clive Spash

Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new four-volume Routledge Major Work brings together canonical and cutting-edge research in ecological economics. In tracing both the development of thought in the field, as well as exploring the most recent scholarship, diverse elements of the rapidly...

Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge

New Perspectives on Agri-environmental Policies

A multidisciplinary and transatlantic approach

Edited by Stephan J Goetz, Floor Brouwer

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

Significant advances have occurred in recent years in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies. Land use issues tend to be more pressing in Europe than in the US as a whole because of different spatial exigencies. Because these advances have taken place within...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands

By Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Klaus Hubacek, Jon Stewart

Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

The uplands are a crucial source of ecosystem services, such as water provision, carbon retention, maintenance of biodiversity, provision of recreation value and cultural heritage. This puts them in the focus of both environmental and social scientists as well as practitioners and land managers.....

Published November 8th 2009 by Routledge

Environmental Amenities and Regional Economic Development

Edited by Todd L. Cherry, Dan Rickman

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view. Economic activity became more footloose and the ability to attract productive labor became a...

Published November 17th 2009 by Routledge

The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory 2010

5th Edition

Series: ENVIRONMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DIRECTORY

Examining environmental issues throughout the world, this reference title contains thorough definitions and explanations of terms relating to the environment. The volume includes detailed maps, an extensive bibliography and a Who's Who section, making this an essential one-stop reference work for...

Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge

Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation

The People's Republic of China's Path to a Brighter Future

Edited by Timothy Swanson, Tun Lin

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The...

Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge