The Routledge Introductions to Environment series, edited by David Pepper of Oxford Brookes University, UK, introduces core topics for environmental study.
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The series presents unparalleled interdisciplinary perspectives on issues of environmental concern. Focusing on human-environmental interrelationships, these concise, engaging, user-friendly texts respond particularly well to the demands of modular learning. Each text in the series features:
• summaries of key concepts and contextual introductions to each topic
• uniform, attractive, series design
• informative diagrams illustrating key concepts and issues
• annotated reading lists and end of chapter questions
• lively global case studies boxed throughout the text.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
