Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Rethinking and Relearning Disaster Adaptations from and within Indigenous Land-Based Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ranjan Datta, Margot Hurlbert, Arifatul Kibria, Rajmoni Singha, Barsha Kairy, Somashree Chattapadhya
January 30, 2025
This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in reshaping disaster adaptations. Drawing from Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, this book challenges transformational approaches to disaster ...
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises
1st Edition
By Massih Zekavat, Tabea Scheel
October 08, 2024
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels. Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to ...
UN Human Rights Institutions and the Environment: Synergies, Challenges, Trajectories
1st Edition
By Sumudu Atapattu
October 04, 2024
This book presents an in-depth analysis of how UN human rights institutions and mechanisms have addressed environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate change. Despite the increasing involvement of UN human rights bodies in addressing environmental degradation and climate change,...
Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns: Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm
1st Edition
By Manuel Vallée
October 04, 2024
This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely populated ...
Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge and Sustainability: Settler Colonialism and the Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola, John Bosco Acharibasam
September 09, 2024
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis. Contributors from cross-cultural communities, including Indigenous, settlers, immigrants, and refugee communities, discuss ...
Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini
August 26, 2024
Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social ...
Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic
1st Edition
By Kalpita Bhar Paul
August 16, 2024
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Indian Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives. It nuances the present understanding of the crisis by introducing plurality in our metaphysical understanding of the environment and epistemological ...
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
1st Edition
By E. C. H. Keskitalo
June 12, 2024
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact not least the present environmental crisis. This book systematically ...
Making CO₂ a Resource: The Interplay Between Research, Innovation and Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Øyvind Stokke, Elin M. Oftedal
June 03, 2024
This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste and, as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest challenges humanity is facing: climate change. Drawing on a Norwegian narrative that has significance for a global audience, Øyvind Stokke and Elin Oftedal ...
Art, Farming and Food for the Future: Transforming Agriculture
1st Edition
By Barbara Benish, Nathalie Blanc
May 27, 2024
This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing ...
Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities: Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe
1st Edition
By Katherine Maxwell
May 27, 2024
This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies. European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘...
Energy, Environment and Geopolitics in Eurasia: Search for Security in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
1st Edition
By Norman A. Graham, Şuhnaz Yılmaz
December 22, 2023
This book advances our understanding of security and its intricate interactions with geopolitics and the environment in Eurasia. Norman A. Graham and Şuhnaz Yılmaz focus on Eurasia, where the energy-water-food nexus has emerged as a vital aspect of political economy and increasinglyas a decisive ...