Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy
The Right to Nature: Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures
1st Edition
Edited
By Elia Apostolopoulou, Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez
December 13, 2018
Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge ...
Environmental Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability
1st Edition
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By Chelsea Schelly, Aparajita Banerjee
February 12, 2018
It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment. From energy development to resource extraction to use of land and water, humans are having a devastating effect on the earth’s ability to sustain human societies and quality lives. Many ...
Public Policy and Land Exchange: Choice, law, and praxis
1st Edition
By Giancarlo Panagia
June 30, 2017
This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges. By blending public choice theory with engaging case studies that contextualize the tactics used by land developers, this book uses economic sociology to help challenge the...
The Limits of the Green Economy: From re-inventing capitalism to re-politicising the present
1st Edition
By Anneleen Kenis, Matthias Lievens
April 13, 2017
Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking. Its underlying message is attractive and optimistic: if the market can become ...
International Arctic Petroleum Cooperation: Barents Sea Scenarios
1st Edition
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By Anatoli Bourmistrov, Frode Mellemvik, Alexei Bambulyak, Ove Gudmestad, Indra Overland, Anatoly Zolotukhin
December 20, 2016
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and even military conflicts. This book looks in detail at the preconditions and ...
Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
1st Edition
By Spencer Meredith, III
November 07, 2016
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukushima had in place a solid containment structure to reduce the spread of radiation in the event of a ...
The Politics of Carbon Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Stephan, Richard Lane
June 17, 2016
The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate...
Land and Resource Scarcity: Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels
1st Edition
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By Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel
May 21, 2015
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be ...