Environment and Sustainability Paperbacks

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51. Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

    The Growth Paradigm

    By Stephen J. Purdey

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

    The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary. National governments around the world are seized of the same objective. Major international institutions such as the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, IMF and OECD, powerful international...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
52. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

    By Raymond Pierotti

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
53. Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems

    Methodology and Applications

    Edited by Pushpam Kumar, Michael Wood

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully recognised and hence ecosystem considerations may not be incorporated adequately into decision-making...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
54. Law and Ecology

    New Environmental Foundations

    Edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

    Series: Law, Justice and Ecology

    Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations contains a series of theoretical and applied perspectives on the connection between law and ecology, which together offer a radical and socially responsive foundation for environmental law. While its legal corpus grows daily, environmental law has not...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
55. Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

    Edited by Anna Montini, Massimiliano Mazzanti

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. This field of research has been focusing on how environmental innovation is particularly related to the intensity of emissions and economic performance. There are...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
56. Water Policy Processes in India

    Discourses of Power and Resistance

    By Vandana Asthana

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
57. Sustainable Development and Free Trade

    Institutional Approaches

    By Shawkat Alam

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development. Focusing in particular on the interests and concerns of...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
58. Participation in Environmental Organizations

    By Benno Torgler, Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas, Alison Macintyre

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmentalbehaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes andconsequences of participation in environmental organizations. This book fills the gap by analysing in detail the determinants of environmental...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
59. Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land

    The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa

    Edited by Fred Nelson

    Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes,...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
60. Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia

    Locating the commonweal

    Edited by Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge