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Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment

About the Book Series

This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to conservation and the environment, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. Topics include, but are not limited to, development, environmental policy and politics, ecosystem change, natural resources (including land, water, oceans and forests), security, wildlife, protected areas, tourism, human-wildlife conflict, agriculture, economics, law and climate change.

This series publishes titles for all audiences, including students, scholars and professional/policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).

31 Series Titles


Religion and Nature Conservation Global Case Studies

Religion and Nature Conservation: Global Case Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Radhika Borde, Alison A Ormsby, Stephen M Awoyemi, Andrew G Gosler
October 31, 2022

This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves. With conservation and religion often being championed as allies in the quest for a sustainable world ...

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence

1st Edition

Edited By Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley, Stephen Harris
August 01, 2022

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called ‘fortress conservation’ and ‘co-existence’ schools of thought. This...

Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa Challenges of Sustainable Development

Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa: Challenges of Sustainable Development

1st Edition

Edited By Moren T. Stone, Monkgogi Lenao, Naomi Moswete
June 30, 2021

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years. Questioning how natural resources, tourism and community livelihoods relations can positively ...

Is CITES Protecting Wildlife? Assessing Implementation and Compliance

Is CITES Protecting Wildlife?: Assessing Implementation and Compliance

1st Edition

By Tanya Wyatt
June 17, 2021

This book assesses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), examining both implementation and compliance. Humans are causing a biodiversity crisis, where 1 million species are facing extinction. Species are dying, in no small part, because they ...

Humans and Hyenas Monster or Misunderstood

Humans and Hyenas: Monster or Misunderstood

1st Edition

By Keith Somerville
March 19, 2021

Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people. The hyena is one of the most maligned, misrepresented and defamed mammals. It is still, despite decades of ...

Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

Power in Conservation: Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

1st Edition

By Carol Carpenter
July 10, 2020

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern and ...

Leaving Space for Nature The Critical Role of Area-Based Conservation

Leaving Space for Nature: The Critical Role of Area-Based Conservation

1st Edition

By Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton
April 07, 2020

This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society. Now covering 15 per cent of the land surface and a growing area of ocean, the creation of protected areas is one of the fastest conscious changes in land management in ...

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