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]).
Governing the Palm Oil Industry: Perspectives from Southeast Asia and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick O'Reilly, Helena Varkkey
August 23, 2024
This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry. With its historic roots ...
Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change: Pastoralism in Fennoscandia
1st Edition
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By Tim Horstkotte, Øystein Holand, Jouko Kumpula, Jon Moen
January 29, 2024
This volume offers a holistic understanding of the environmental and societal challenges that affect reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia today. Reindeer husbandry is a livelihood with a long traditional heritage and cultural importance. Like many other pastoral societies, reindeer herders are ...
Resource Communities: Past Legacies and Future Pathways
1st Edition
By Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais, Xaquin Perez-Sindin
October 26, 2023
This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, ...
Natural Resource Sovereignty and the Right to Development in Africa
1st Edition
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By Carol Chi Ngang, Serges Djoyou Kamga
May 31, 2023
This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa. The right to sovereignty over natural resources and the right to development are recognised and protected in an extensive framework of international, regional and domestic instruments. They ...
Participatory Governance of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Canada and Israel: Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts
1st Edition
By Natasha Donevska
January 09, 2023
This book explores how participatory governance processes help to find integrated solutions to resource-based development while protecting ecosystems in UNESCO designated areas. Participatory Governance of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Canada and Israel explores how stakeholders’ participation in ...
Balancing the Commons in Switzerland: Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations
1st Edition
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By Tobias Haller, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, Rahel Wunderli
September 26, 2022
Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners’ organisations ...
Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access): Reinventing Agrarian Justice
1st Edition
By Elsa Tsioumani
May 06, 2022
This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider variety of international instruments, ...
The Moroccan Argan Trade: Producer Networks and Human Bio-Geographies
1st Edition
By Daniel F. Robinson
December 13, 2021
This book provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations of the Moroccan argan tree, the products derived from it and its cultural significance. The Moroccan argan trade is booming, but as the tree provides important ecological functions and plays an important role, both ...
Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local Experiences of a Global Concept
1st Edition
By Louisa Parks
June 30, 2021
Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and ...
Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development
1st Edition
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By John F. Devlin
June 30, 2021
Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.Natural resource development takes multiple forms, including infrastructure corridors, mines, dams, resource processing plants and pipelines. Many of which are ...
Policy and Governance in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Relational Equity Approach
1st Edition
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By Anastasia Koulouri, Nikolai Mouraviev
March 31, 2021
This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies. Due to ...
Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors: Outcomes for Society and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Melissa Vogt
December 18, 2020
This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries. Certification schemes set standards through intramarket private and multi-stakeholder mechanisms, and while third-party verification is ...