Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to natural resource management, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Natural Resource Cooperatives in Africa: Sustainable Management and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa, Ibrahima Barry
June 04, 2026
This book examines the role of cooperatives in the sustainable management and governance of natural resources, drawing on a range of case studies from across Africa. Cooperatives play a pivotal role in natural resource management, especially in the face of a changing climate. Their collaborative ...
An Introduction to Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dualism, Reform and the Roots of Conflict
1st Edition
By John W. Bruce
February 04, 2026
Written by a scholar-practitioner with over four decades of experience, this book is an accessible introduction to land tenure and its implications for African development. The book carries a clear warning: intensifying conflict over land across Africa is not the growing pains of a positive ...
Reimagining Resources and Community Development: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador
1st Edition
By Monica Gruezmacher, Kelly Vodden, Brennan Lowery, Amy Hudson, Kristof Van Assche
July 09, 2025
This book analyzes the experiences of communities facing major challenges relating to resource dependency and community sustainability, drawing on specific examples from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It offers a methodology of self-analysis for communities facing similar ...
Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Maureen Papas
May 06, 2025
This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development. Building effective and sustainable mechanisms to tackle environmental problems requires in-depth understanding of ...
Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa: Environmental Justice and Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Obasesam Okoi, Victoria R Nalule
May 06, 2025
This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace. One of the most prominent challenges facing Africa today is the consequences of natural resource extraction. While these resources hold the ...
English Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces
1st Edition
By Christopher Rodgers, Rachel Hammersley, Alessandro Zambelli, Emma Cheatle, John Wedgwood Clarke, Sarah Collins, Olivia Dee, Siobhan O’Neill
April 14, 2025
This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities. ...
Sustainable Management of Cordyceps: Supply Chains and Resource Management Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jiping Sheng, Ksenia Gerasimova
December 30, 2024
This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving Cordyceps sinensis, a rare species of fungus largely grown in Tibet, currently on the brink of extinction. As one of the most expensive commodities in the world, particularly valued for its medicinal properties in China, the ...
Blue Flag Beaches: Economic Growth, Tourism and Sustainable Management
1st Edition
Edited
By María A. Prats, Fernando Merino
December 18, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives. Since its creation in the 1980s, The Blue Flag program awards the management of beaches and marinas based on sustainability...
Researching Institutions in Natural Resource Governance: Methods and Frameworks
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Nunan
December 06, 2024
This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associated with natural resource governance. Institutions as rules of the game are fundamental to the management, governance and use of renewable natural ...
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Anne German, Jeremias Mowo, Tilahun Amede, Kenneth Masuki
October 14, 2024
This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site ...
The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products
1st Edition
Edited
By Carsten Smith-Hall, James Chamberlain
October 07, 2024
This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies. While the plants and fungi that produce non-timber forest products are essential to the sustainability of forest ecosystems, peoples' food and ...
Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Kronenburg García, Tobias Haller, Han van Dijk, Cyrus Samimi, Jeroen Warner
August 26, 2024
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. ...