Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Rights of Nature: A Re-examination
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
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 ...
The Creative Arts in Governance of Urban Renewal and Development
1st Edition
By Rory Shand
June 13, 2022
This book focuses on the role of the creative sector in the governance of urban renewal and economic development initiatives. Rory Shand examines the ways in which both the top-down nature of the creative sector, and the bottom-up roles of creative arts organisations, drive development and engage ...
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 ...