Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Environmental Education in Indonesia: Creating Responsible Citizens in the Global South?
1st Edition
By Lyn Parker, Kelsie Prabawa-Sear
March 31, 2021
Indonesia’s wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to develop environmental awareness and avert vast ...
Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny: Ecoculture, Literature and Religion
1st Edition
By Rod Giblett
December 18, 2020
Sigmund Freud’s essay 'The Uncanny' is celebrating a century since publication. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment. Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny brings into the open neglected aspects of the uncanny in this famous ...
Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call: Reticent Imperatives
1st Edition
By James Magrini
December 18, 2020
Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of ...
Poetics of the Earth: Natural History and Human History
1st Edition
By Augustin Berque
December 18, 2020
Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles. Augustin Berque ...
Stranded Assets and the Environment: Risk, Resilience and Opportunity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Caldecott
March 04, 2020
Drawing on the work of leading researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including economic geography, economics, economic history, finance, law, and public policy, this edited collection provides a comprehensive assessment of stranded assets and the environment, covering the ...
Domestic Environmental Labour: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Making Homes Greener
1st Edition
By Carol Farbotko
December 12, 2019
This book addresses the question of domestic environmental labour from an ecofeminist perspective. A work of cultural geography, it explores the proposition that the practice and politics of domestic labour being undertaken in the name of ‘the environment’ needs to be better recognized, understood ...
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Orr, Katie 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 ...
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...
The Governance of Urban Green Spaces in the EU: Social innovation and civil society
1st Edition
By Judith Schicklinski
June 10, 2019
Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests. On the one hand citizens are increasingly aware of the necessity for self-organising to reclaim green spaces. On the other hand local authorities have started to involve citizens in the governance of ...
Sustainability in the Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Elie Azar, Mohamed Abdel Raouf
June 06, 2019
Sustainability is a topic of great interest today, particularly for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which have witnessed very rapid economic and demographic growth over the past decade. The observed growth has led to unsustainable consumption patterns of vital resources such as water,...