Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamrul Hossain, Dorothée Cambou
October 17, 2019
The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive industrial developments. The threats arising out of these pressures result in human security challenges. This book analyses the formation, and promotion, of...
NGO Discourses in the Debate on Genetically Modified Crops
1st Edition
By Ksenia Gerasimova
May 21, 2019
The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a number of social science analyses of the issues, this is the first book to assess the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the debate at such...
African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Chimakonam
March 05, 2019
African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa...
Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré
January 10, 2019
As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to ...
Rawls and the Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
By Dominic Welburn
June 20, 2018
The liberal political theorist John Rawls, despite remaining largely silent on ‘green concerns’, was writing during a time of increasing awareness that the ecological stability of the earth is being compromised by human activity. Rawls’s reluctance to engage with such concerns, however, has not ...
Energy Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Bo Kong, Jae Ku
June 16, 2017
Drawing on cutting-edge research from leading scholars, this book investigates state preferences for regime creation and assesses state capacity for executing these preferences in Northeast Asia’s energy domain, defined as the geographical area comprising the following countries: Russia, Mongolia, ...
Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting
1st Edition
By Seleshi Sisaye
April 27, 2017
Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and organizational performance cannot be explained unless we can deduce patterns of administrative behaviour...
Peak Energy Demand and Demand Side Response
1st Edition
By Jacopo Torriti
April 27, 2017
With different intensities, depending on the season, every morning and evening of any weekday there are the same peaks in electricity demand. Peaks can bring about significantly negative environmental and economic impacts. Demand Side Response is a relatively recent solution in Europe which has the...
Environmental Change and the World's Futures: Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Paul Marshall, Linda Connor
April 11, 2017
Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking ...
Culture and Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism
1st Edition
By Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Helen Kopnina
April 06, 2017
Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral ...
The Green Economy in the Gulf
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Mari Luomi
February 24, 2017
Filling a void in academic and policy-relevant literature on the topic of the green economy in the Arabian Gulf, this edited volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the key themes and challenges relating to the green economy in the region, including in the energy and water sectors and the ...
The Politics of Ecosocialism: Transforming welfare
1st Edition
Edited
By Kajsa Borgnäs, Teppo Eskelinen, Johanna Perkiö, Rikard Warlenius
February 24, 2017
As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues. This innovative book offers a unique perspective, stressing the necessity of both ecological ...