Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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The Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Rita Calvário, Maria Kaika, Giorgos Velegrakis
September 25, 2023
The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy, and media attention. Offering a better comprehension of the full socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book highlights the importance of considering ...
Myth and Environmentalism: Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet
1st Edition
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By Esther Sánchez-Pardo, María Porras Sánchez
July 05, 2023
This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging ...
Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation
1st Edition
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By Kirk W. Junker, Paolo Davide Farah
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South. Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global South, this volume is organized into three ...
Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Resilience
1st Edition
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By Mahbuba Nasreen, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan
March 31, 2023
This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh. Located in the lower riparian of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has to face frequent disasters such as floods, cyclones, river erosion, salinity intrusion as well...
Rights of Nature: A Re-examination
1st Edition
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By Daniel P. Corrigan, Markku Oksanen
January 09, 2023
Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural ...
Addicted to Growth: Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future
1st Edition
By Robert Costanza
December 29, 2022
This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want. Our global society is hopelessly addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. Addicted to Growth ...
A History of Radioecology
1st Edition
By Patrick C. Kangas
December 26, 2022
This book presents a history of radioecology, from World War II through to the critical years of the Cold War, finishing with a discussion of recent developments and future implications for the field. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources, the book reviews, synthesizes and discusses the ...
An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939: Fire, Rain, Settlers and Conservation
1st Edition
By Warwick Frost
December 19, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia’s rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use. ...
Climate Change Temporalities: Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse
1st Edition
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By Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, Anne Eriksen
September 26, 2022
Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a ...
Nature and Bureaucracy: The Wildness of Managed Landscapes
1st Edition
By David Jenkins
September 08, 2022
This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality. One prominent challenge facing ...
Sustainable Places: Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
By David Adamson, Lorena Axinte, Mark Lang, Terry Marsden
August 25, 2022
This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that ‘place...
Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life
1st Edition
By Eric S. Nelson
August 01, 2022
Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and ...