Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Disaster Risk Reduction for Economic Growth and Livelihood: Investing in Resilience and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Davis, Kae Yanagisawa, Kristalina Georgieva
January 30, 2017
The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences. This book addresses how countries can enhance their resilience against natural disasters and move towards economic growth and ...
Water Politics and Spiritual Ecology: Custom, environmental governance and development
1st Edition
By Lisa Palmer
January 30, 2017
As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance. In many areas water is not only a vital resource but is also endowed with an agency and power that connects ...
Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management: A legal pluralism perspective from India
1st Edition
Edited
By Maarten Bavinck, Amalendu Jyotishi
November 04, 2016
Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods. Issues of governance and management are complicated by the competing claims of parallel legal systems, including state, customary, religious, project and local laws....
Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: Perspectives from Africa and Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Rhuks Ako
May 11, 2016
The evolving environmental justice paradigm is conceptualized differently based on political, economic and historical factors. In developed countries, emphasis is placed on the role of individuals in environmental decision-making and the protection of their access to the prerequisite environmental ...
Fairness and Justice in Environmental Decision Making: Water Under the Bridge
1st Edition
By Catherine Gross
April 27, 2016
By crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uniquely connects theories of justice with people's lived experience within social conflicts over resource sharing. It shows why some conflicts, such as local opposition to wind farms and water disputes, have become intractable social problems in many ...
Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement: How planting trees strengthens the roots of democracy
1st Edition
By Dana Fisher, Erika Svendsen, James Connolly
April 27, 2016
Once considered the antithesis of a verdant and vibrant ecosystem, cities are now being hailed as highly efficient and complex social ecological systems. Emerging from the streets of the post-industrial city are well-tended community gardens, rooftop farms and other viable habitats capable of ...
Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment: The Case of India
1st Edition
By Manu Mathai
October 29, 2015
Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question ...
Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol
1st Edition
By Gerald Kutney
October 12, 2015
Carbon Politics and the Failure of Kyoto charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change. The focus is not on the science or consequences of climate change but on the...
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: A Race against Time
1st Edition
By Peter F. Smith
October 12, 2015
History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization ...
Trade, Health and the Environment: The European Union Put to the Test
1st Edition
By Marjolein van Asselt, Michelle Everson, Ellen Vos
October 06, 2015
The trade conflicts that the EU has faced within the EU or WTO context demonstrate that the question of how to balance trade and other societal values in situations of uncertainty has not been solved by the regulatory model evolved by the EU in the aftermath of the BSE crisis – one which privileges...
Federalism of Wetlands
1st Edition
By Ryan Taylor
July 23, 2015
This book investigates the consequences of redundant state and federal environmental regulations in the United States. Drawing on the most exhaustive statistical analysis of US federal wetland permits ever constructed, the book uncovers the disjointed world of wetland regulation. The author starts ...
The Political Economy of Global Warming: The Terminal Crisis
1st Edition
By Del Weston
July 16, 2015
Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the ...