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  1. Global Environmental Forest Policies

    An International Comparison

    By Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, Peter Kanowski

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge

  2. 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

  3. Agriculture in Urban Planning

    Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

    Edited by Mark Redwood

    This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka

    Ethnic and Regional Dimensions

    Edited by Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The...

    Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Improving Water Policy and Governance

    Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit Biswas

    Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes, both governance processes and the scope of the institutions through which power is exercised throughout society may have to undergo a...

    Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Lawscape

    Property, Environment, Law

    By Nicole Graham

    Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, Lawscape engages the abstract philosophy of property law with the...

    Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish

  7. Water Law for the Twenty-First Century

    National and International Aspects of Water Law Reform in India

    Edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav, Usha Ramanathan

    In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of...

    Published July 11th 2011 by Routledge

  8. Land Reform in Developing Countries

    Property Rights and Property Wrongs

    By Michael Lipton

    Series: Priorities for Development Economics

    Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge

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