Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
About the Book Series
Please get in touch with Grace Harrison ([email protected]), Annabelle Harris ([email protected]) or Hannah Ferguson ([email protected]) if you would like to submit a proposal.
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 ...
The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation
1st Edition
By Trevor Hedberg
December 13, 2021
This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation.In light of climate change, species extinctions, and other looming environmental crises, Trevor Hedberg argues that we have a collective ...
Environmental Justice and Oil Pollution Laws: Comparing Enforcement in the United States and Nigeria
1st Edition
By Eloamaka Carol Okonkwo
September 30, 2021
This book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria. Critically, this book not only examines the fluidity of oil pollutions laws but also how effective or ineffective enforcement can be when viewed ...
Towards a Society of Degrowth
1st Edition
By Onofrio Romano
September 30, 2021
This book explores the concept of degrowth, beginning from a basic assumption, not of resource depletion, as is common in most literature in the field, but rather from a state of abundance, arguing that there is a vast amount of energy on the planet waiting to be utilized by all its ...
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
Edited
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...
Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel
1st Edition
By Sangita Patil
June 30, 2021
Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel tests the theories of ecofeminism against the background of India’s often different perceptions of environmental problems, challenging the hegemony of Western culture in thinking about human problems. This book moves beyond a simple application of the concepts of ...
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 ...
Common Sense in Environmental Management: Thinking Through English Land and Water
1st Edition
By Jonathan Woolley
April 01, 2021
Common Sense in Environmental Management examines common sense not in theory, but in practice. Jonathan Woolley argues that common sense as a concept is rooted in English experiences of landscape and land management and examines it ethnographically - unveiling common sense as key to understanding ...
The Role of Non-State Actors in the Green Transition: Building a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset, Simon Lex
April 01, 2021
This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors. The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending ...