Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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From Environmental to Ecological Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Anker, Peter D. Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney, Carla Sbert
August 01, 2022
This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law. Presenting new thinking in the field, this book focuses on ...
Polluting Textiles: The Problem with Microfibres
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith S. Weis, Francesca De Falco, Mariacristina Cocca
May 19, 2022
This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry. Comprised of contributions from environmental scientists and materials and textiles scientists, this edited volume addresses the environmental impact of microplastics, with a particular focus on ...
Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis: A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Garver
May 06, 2022
This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth’s human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity’s social metabolism, along with the history of ...
Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison
April 18, 2022
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected. With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community ...
Sociology Saves the Planet: An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice
1st Edition
By Thomas Macias
December 24, 2021
Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology. Given its focus on inequality and the constituent elements of the social world, sociology has often been accused of ...
Riverlands of the Anthropocene: Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
1st Edition
By Margaret Somerville
August 16, 2021
This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global ...
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden
1st Edition
By Robert Sayre, Michael Löwy
August 02, 2021
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different areas: travel writing, painting, utopian ...
Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory
1st Edition
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By Mary Menton, Philippe Le Billon
July 16, 2021
This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment. Between 2002 and 2019, at least two thousand people were killed in 57 countries for defending their lands and the environment. Recent policy initiatives and media coverage...
Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular culture and environmental discourse
1st Edition
By Elena dell'Agnese
May 27, 2021
What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a new theoretical perspective and approach to the analysis of environmental discourse in popular ...
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher J. Orr, Kaitlin Kish, Bruce Jennings
December 05, 2019
This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions – choice, thought, action – has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively ...
What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?
1st Edition
By Haydn Washington
October 18, 2019
The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions. Many of us know that something is wrong with our world, that it is wounded. At the same time, we often don’t know why things...
Environmental Performance Auditing in the Public Sector: Enabling Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Awadhesh Prasad
October 17, 2019
Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern. Trillions of dollars of mostly public money are invested every year in domestic and international policies and programs to address these challenges. The effectiveness of these policies and programs is critical to ...