Environment & Agriculture Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. African Environments and Resources

   By L. A. Lewis, L. Berry

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes

   Edited by Carol J Pierce Colfer, Jean-Laurent Pfund

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the interface between communities and the landscape level, building on interdisciplinary research conducted...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa

   Managing for Products and Services

   Edited by Emmanuel N. Chidumayo, Davison J. Gumbo

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Decentralization of Forest Governance

   Politics, Economics and the Fight for Control of Forests in Indonesian Borneo

   By Moira Moeliono, Godwin Limberg

   Edited by Eva Wollenberg

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   'This book provides an excellent overview of more than a decade of transformation in a forest landscape where the interests of local people, extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict. The studies assembled here teach us that plans and strategies are fine but, in the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa

   Management and Restoration

   Edited by Frans Bongers, Timm Tennigkeit

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   Forest degradation as a result of logging, shifting cultivation, agriculture and urban development is a major issue throughout the tropics. It leads to loss in soil fertility, water resources and biodiversity, as well as contributes to climate change. Efforts are therefore required to try to...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market

   Opportunities Under REDD

   Edited by Margaret Skutsch

   Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries (REDD) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural communities through management of the forests in their vicinity. Since the annual changes in forest carbon stock under this kind of...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Lessons from Forest Decentralization

   "Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific"

   Edited by Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram, Doris Capistrano

   The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries described in this book presents rich and varied experience with...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Green Revolution Revisited

   Critique and Alternatives

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Learning From China?

   Development and Environment in Third World Countries

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning. The...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Mountain World in Danger

    Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

    By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

    Series: Sustainable Development Set

    The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge