Environmental Studies Paperbacks

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21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions

    Theory and Measurement

    By João F. D. Rodrigues, Tiago M. D. Domingos, Alexandra P.S. Marques

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    Climate change policy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are currently discussed at all scales, ranging from the Kyoto Protocol to the increasingly frequent advertisement of ''carbon neutrality'' in consumer products. However, the only policy option usually considered is the reduction of...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
29. The Cooperation Challenge of Economics and the Protection of Water Supplies

    A Case Study of the New York City Watershed Collaboration

    By Joan Hoffman

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City’s watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
30. Environmental Amenities and Regional Economic Development

    Edited by Todd L. Cherry, Dan Rickman

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view. Economic activity became more footloose and the ability to attract productive labor became a...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge