Environment and Sustainability Paperbacks

New and Published Books – Page 2

11. Gender and Natural Resource Management

    Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions

    Edited by Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Rebecca Elmhirst

    This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
12. Exploited Earth

    Britain's aid and the environment

    By Teresa Hayter

    Series: Aid and Development Set

    How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
13. Elephants, Economics and Ivory

    By Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
14. Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

    By John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
15. Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources

    Ecology, Economics and Policies

    Edited by Thomas Koellner

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other commodities is a global challenge as the...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
16. 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
17. Acid Earth

    The Global Threat of Acid Pollution, 2nd Edition

    By John McCormick

    Series: International Environmental Governance Set

    Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s. But while industrialized countries have taken measures to reduce the emissions that lead to acidification, the problems have not gone away. Trees are still dying, lakes are still being made uninhabitable; buildings are still...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
18. Intergenerational Justice

    Rights and Responsibilities in an Intergenerational Polity

    By Janna Thompson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this timely study, Thompson presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, showing why people can make legitimate demands of their successors and explaining what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair. What connects...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
19. Marine Environmental Governance

    From International Law to Local Practice

    By Erika Techera

    Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain...

    Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
20. Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

    By Geoff Wilson

    This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge