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Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of...
Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a...
Published June 14th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
How did one group of indigenous societies, on the Northwest Coast of North America, manage to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years? Can the answer to this question inform the current debate about sustainability in today’s social ecological systems? The answer to the...
Published March 9th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The focus is on the territories of the Arctic rim where the current and future oil and gas activities in the Arctic are and will be...
Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites,...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Land has long been overlooked in economics. That is now changing. A substantial part of the solution to the climate crisis may lie in growing crops for fuel and using trees for storing carbon. This book investigates the potential of these options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, estimates the...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Interest in biomass energy resources from forests, farms and other sources has been rapidly increasing in recent years because of growing concern with reducing carbon dioxide emissions and developing alternatives to increasingly scarce, expensive and insecure oil supplies. The uniqueness of this...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries. While avoided deforestation, as a policy issue, is not new, the current debate in academic and policy...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
Series: Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy
Global change possesses serious challenges for water managers and scientists. In mountain areas, where water supplies for half of the world population originate, climate and hydrologic models are still subject to considerable uncertainty. And yet, critical decisions have to be taken to ensure...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
