Environment and Sustainability Paperbacks

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101. International Cooperation and Arctic Governance

     Regime Effectiveness and Northern Region Building

     Edited by Olav Schram Stokke, Geir Hønneland

     Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

     A new exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change. The post-Cold War era has seen an upsurge in interest in Arctic affairs. With new international regimes targeting Arctic issues at both the global and...

     Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
102. Education for Sustainable Development

     Papers in Honour of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)

     Edited by Brian Chalkley, Martin Haigh, David Higgitt

     In 2005, The United Nations launched its Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which recognises that education, including Higher Education is the key to the change in social attitudes that will be needed to protect the welfare of future generations. This involves helping learners to live...

     Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge
103. Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

     Edited by John Grattan, Robin Torrence

     Series: One World Archaeology

     Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies...

     Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
104. Climate Change and Armed Conflict

     Hot and Cold Wars

     By James R. Lee

     Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

     This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic...

     Published May 18th 2010 by Routledge
105. Campsteading (paperback direct)

     Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

     By Derek Brereton

     The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations,...

     Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge
106. Human Ecology Economics

     A New Framework for Global Sustainability

     Edited by Roy E. Allen

     Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

     This book presents ‘human ecology economics’ as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ‘world conditions and human systems’. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates...

     Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
107. Governance for Sustainable Development

     Coping with ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed power

     Edited by Jens Newig, Jan-Peter Voss, Jochen Monstadt

     Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: goals, knowledge, and power: Sustainability goals are subject to changing and controversial risk perceptions, values and...

     Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
108. Water Management in Megacities

     Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis, Asit Biswas, Jan Lundqvist

     Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental...

     Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
109. Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods

     By Todd L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll, Jason F. Shogren

     Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

     The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work exploring the behavioural underpinnings of experimental environmental economics. The essays in this volume will be...

     Published September 17th 2009 by Routledge
110. Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment

     Edited by Ariel Dinar, José Albiac, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

     Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

     Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in other fields of social sciences. With the increased level of extraction of natural resources and pollution of environments, game theory gains its...

     Published September 17th 2009 by Routledge