Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Routledge Handbook of Arctic Energy Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Bram Noble, Greg Poelzer, Gwen Holdmann, Saurabh Biswas, Diane Hirshberg
July 06, 2026
This Handbook approaches the multiplicity of perspectives, values, and tensions around energy transitions in the Arctic as occurring in a tightly coupled, yet diverse, socio-technical environment. Arctic energy is at a crossroads. Climate change and advances in renewable energy technologies are ...
Routledge Handbook of Young People’s Environmental Activism
1st Edition
Edited
By Sadiya Akram, Benjamin Bowman
June 15, 2026
This Handbook addresses the new watershed moment in youth environmental activism: the collision of the historic and globally prominent youth-centred movements on the one hand, with established, consolidated power in opposition to environmental action on the other. The central goal of this Handbook...
Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Moritz, Igshaan Samuels, Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Schlecht
June 12, 2026
This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world. Approaching pastoralism as a social–ecological system, the volume synthesizes current ...
Routledge Handbook of Grasslands
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather A. Hager, David J. Gibson, Jonathan A. Newman
March 17, 2026
This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state-of-the-art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Despite the real and intrinsic values that grasslands offer, they are globally subject to fragmentation, habitat and species loss, and they are ...
The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael T. Heneise, Cassandra Falke, Espen Dahl, Alice Sundman, Edvard Lia
December 19, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology is a comprehensive exploration of how we, as humans, interact with and perceive the natural world. Spanning seven thematic sections, this wide-ranging collection gathers contributions from leading scholars in philosophy, theology, anthropology, literature...
Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime
1st Edition
Edited
By Francis Massé, Annette Hübschle, Laura Gutiérrez, Rebecca W.Y. Wong, Tanya Wyatt
December 18, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms. The effects of wildlife crime and overexploitation are contributing to the possible extinction of one million species. These activities also harm human and ...
Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Shafiqul Islam, Kevin Smith, Martina Klimes, Aaron Salzberg
October 20, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy is a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing water diplomacy – a framework for building relationships, negotiating shared interests, and managing complex water challenges across physical, political, and societal boundaries. In an era marked by ...
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Reyes-García
September 29, 2025
This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous Peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes. While there is well-established evidence that the climate of the Earth is changing, the scarcity of instrumental data oftentimes challenges...
Routledge Handbook of Wetlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Dixon, Ian Maddock
August 29, 2025
This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences. Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented global interest in wetlands and the critical role they play ...
Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles H. Nilon, Myla F.J. Aronson
July 31, 2025
This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity. The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two decades and is now a significant field in its own right. In view of this, the...
Routledge Handbook of Degrowth
1st Edition
Edited
By Anitra Nelson
July 17, 2025
This handbook takes stock of ‘degrowth’, a concept and movement gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth’s significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures. Part I sets the ...
Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Anderson, Candice Howarth
June 27, 2025
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication. As climate change has moved further up the political agenda, the challenge of how to communicate the scientific, social, and political aspects of the climate emergency is of increasing interest to ...