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  1. Creating Island Resorts

    By Brian King

    Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

    This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes, but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations, by examining social, cultural, mythical, environmental,...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains

    Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System

    Edited by Niels Fold, Bill Pritchard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

  3. A Crisis of Waste?

    Understanding the Rubbish Society

    By Martin O'Brien

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development

    An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans

    By Marco Colazingari

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population....

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Waste and Environmental Policy

    Edited by Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns. It takes a socio-economic and policy-oriented perspective and provides empirical evidence at EU...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge

  6. Benefits of Environmental Policy

    Conference Volume of the 6th Chemnitz Symposium 'Europe and Environment'

    Edited by Klaus Dieter John, Dirk Rübbelke

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Environmental policy may produce effects which go beyond the scope of the specific policy’s initial aim. Reforestation, for example, generates positive benefits not only in the shape of climate protection but also in the shape of the combat of biodiversity loss and it may also raise the...

    Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Philosophical Basics of Ecology and Economy

    By Malte Faber, Reiner Manstetten

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    In today's world – despite the dramatic anthropogenic environmental changes – a proper understanding of the relationship between humanity and nature requires a certain detachment. The pressing problems in their whole extent will only be fully understood and solved with comprehensive and patient...

    Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge

  8. 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

  9. Manufactured Sites

    Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape

    Edited by Niall Kirkwood

    **This title was originally published in 2001. The version published in 2011 is a PB reprint of the original HB** Manufactured Sites focuses on the legacy of industrial production and pollutants on the contemporary landscape and their influence on new scientific research, innovative site...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Taylor & Francis

  10. Sustainable Development

    Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being

    Edited by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann, Johannes Frühmann

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge