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 Conflicts and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By E. Gunilla Almered Olsson, Pernille Gooch
April 17, 2019
Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict. It is shown that the causes and driving forces behind natural resource conflicts are diverse, complex and ...
Environmental Justice and Land Use Conflict: The governance of mineral and gas resource development
1st Edition
By Amanda Kennedy
April 15, 2019
Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world. Using an environmental justice lens, this multidisciplinary book explores cases of land use conflict through the lived experiences of communities grappling with such disputes. Drawing ...
Soil and Soil Fertility Management Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fifty years of shifting visions and chequered achievements
1st Edition
By Henk Mutsaers, Danny Coyne, Stefan Hauser, Jeroen Huising, Alpha Kamara, Generose Nziguheba, Pieter Pypers, Godfrey Taulya, Piet van Asten, Bernard Vanlauwe
April 15, 2019
Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty years. It provides ...
Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods: An Integrated Watershed Approach
1st Edition
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By Feras Ziadat
January 23, 2019
The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated ‘systems’ approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people’s livelihoods. It takes an integrated approach, using one watershed in Ethiopia as a ‘laboratory...
Gender Research in Natural Resource Management: Building Capacities in the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
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By Malika Abdelali-Martini, Aden Aw-Hassan
January 17, 2019
The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach...
Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management: Lessons from the field in Africa
1st Edition
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By Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley, Sabina Di Prima
January 10, 2019
It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa. Analyses of four contrasting ...
Adaptive Cross-scalar Governance of Natural Resources
1st Edition
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By Grenville Barnes, Brian Child
December 21, 2017
Natural resource governance is critical for linking poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource use. This book brings together authors from various disciplines with extensive field experience to promote an integrative understanding of cross-scale and adaptive governance in Africa and Latin ...
The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Lessons from India for Development
1st Edition
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By M. Dinesh Kumar, Nitin Bassi, A. Narayanamoorthy, M.V.K. Sivamohan
October 12, 2017
It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required. This "nexus" is now the focus of major attention by researchers, policy-makers and ...
Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas: A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management
1st Edition
By Natalie Bown, Tim S. Gray, Selina M. Stead
May 25, 2017
In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM). CM is characterized by the decentralization of the decision-making process, incorporating the ...
Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for policy excellence
1st Edition
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By Mike Young, Christine Esau
September 12, 2016
The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, ...
The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus: Challenges and an agenda for action
1st Edition
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By Felix Dodds, Jamie Bartram
April 13, 2016
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability. It is increasingly...
Want, Waste or War?: The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals
1st Edition
By Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, Stacy D. VanDeveer
November 25, 2014
In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and ...