Energy Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

   International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

   By Laura Westra

   More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

   A Guide for Latin America

   By Elizabeth Lokey

   Series: Environmental Market Insights

   This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Household Waste Recycling

   By Richard Waite

   Series: Environmental Management Set

   Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue. In many cases, recycling is the most sensible option, and the UK government has set a target to recycle a quarter of all...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

   Lessons from Cuba

   By Julia Wright

   When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now – only systematic and empirical study to come...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge