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A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability

About the Book Series

This series provides accessible, easy-to-navigate overviews of a range of different topics related to environment and sustainability. Following an A-Z format, each book contains entries which map out an important concept or term and illustrates how it connects more broadly to other ideas and disciplines. With related terms and further reading included alongside the entries, these innovative volumes will be of great interest to students and scholars learning, teaching and researching in this field.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal please contact Annabelle Harris, Editor for Environment and Sustainability – [email protected]

5 Series Titles


Essential Concepts of Science Communication An A-Z Guide

Essential Concepts of Science Communication: An A-Z Guide

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Declan Fahy, Todd P. Newman
July 07, 2026

This A-Z guide provides readers with a comprehensive overview of fifty core concepts in the global field of science communication. It explains the origins and research foundations of each essential concept, analyses how they have been applied in different scholarly and professional contexts and ...

Essential Concepts of Environmental Peacebuilding An A–Z Guide

Essential Concepts of Environmental Peacebuilding: An A–Z Guide

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Carl Bruch, Rachel Weaver, Richard Matthew, Erika Weinthal, Larry Swatuk
June 26, 2026

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts of environmental conflict and peacebuilding by compiling and explaining key terms in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format. Over the past 80 years, scholarly interest in war and peace has flourished, resulting in the ...

Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals An A-Z Guide

Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide

1st Edition

Edited By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit, Yixian Sun
July 24, 2025

This book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and...

Essential Concepts of Land Politics An A–Z Guide

Essential Concepts of Land Politics: An A–Z Guide

1st Edition

By Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
June 13, 2025

This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A–Z format. This book takes a broad view on land, across the rural and urban corridor, and advocates for a holistic view of the politics of land, as an aggregation of land and global social life, ...

Essential Concepts of Sustainable Finance An A-Z Guide

Essential Concepts of Sustainable Finance: An A-Z Guide

1st Edition

Edited By Elisa Aracil, Ibrahim Sancak
July 03, 2023

This book compiles and explains technical terms in sustainable finance in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format. The interdisciplinary nature of sustainable finance means that those researching and working in the field often have to turn to a variety of different sources to look up various non-financial ...

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