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]).
The Commons in a Glocal World: Global Connections and Local Responses
1st Edition
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By Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Tine De Moor, Christian Rohr, Heinzpeter Znoj
December 18, 2020
This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly...
Tropical Bioproductivity: Origins and Distribution in a Globalized World
1st Edition
By David Hammond
September 30, 2020
This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people. The book examines the basic astronomical and thermal properties of our planet to ...
Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem: The Case of the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi
1st Edition
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By Sosten Chiotha, Daniel Jamu, Joseph Nagoli, Patrick Likongwe, Tembo Chanyenga
August 14, 2020
The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017. The programme was designed to protect the livelihoods of the population and enhance resilience of the natural resource base upon which it ...
Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts: A Global Socio-Legal Perspective
1st Edition
By Madeline Taylor, Tina Hunter
June 30, 2020
Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘temporary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates a ...
Forest Management Auditing: Certification of Forest Products and Services
1st Edition
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By Lucio Brotto, Davide Pettenella
June 30, 2020
Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification. Forest managers, ...
Large Carnivore Conservation and Management: Human Dimensions
1st Edition
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By Tasos Hovardas
June 30, 2020
Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears, wolves and big cats. Their habitats are increasingly being shared with humans, and there is a growing number of examples of human-carnivore coexistence as well as conflict. Next to population dynamics of large carnivores, there are considerable...
Peatlands: Ecology, Conservation and Heritage
1st Edition
By Ian D. Rotherham
May 06, 2020
This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts. Peat is formed when vegetation partially decays in a ...
Governing Renewable Natural Resources: Theories and Frameworks
1st Edition
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By Fiona Nunan
December 02, 2019
In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources. Renewable natural resources are under pressure, with over-exploitation and degradation raising concern globally. Understanding ...
Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management: From Economic Principles to Practical Governance
1st Edition
By Brian Child
November 11, 2019
This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical examples of successes and failures in implementation, and lessons about the economics and governance of wild resources with global application. ...
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: Supporting Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability and Society
1st Edition
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By Maureen G. Reed, Martin F. Price
September 06, 2019
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance. This definitive book shows their global relevance and contribution to environmental protection, biocultural diversity and education. Initiated in the 1970s as part of UNESCO’s Man ...
Food, Energy and Water Sustainability: Emergent Governance Strategies
1st Edition
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By Laura M. Pereira, Caitlin A. McElroy, Alexandra Littaye, Alexandra M. Girard
July 29, 2019
Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume ...
Global Resource Scarcity: Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?
1st Edition
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By Marcelle C. Dawson, Christopher Rosin, Nave Wald
July 29, 2019
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of...