Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

   Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law

   Edited by Shawkat Alam, Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Tareq M.R. Chowdhury, Erika J. Techera

   The Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law is an advanced level reference guide which provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the corpus of international environmental law (IEL). The Handbook features specially commissioned papers by leading experts in the field of...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Edited by Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

   The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Climate Change and India

   Development, Politics and Governance

   Edited by Navroz K. Dubash

   How do policymakers, businesses and civil society in India approach the challenge of climate change? What do they believe global climate negotiations will achieve and how? And how are Indian political and policy debates internalizing climate change? Relatively little is known globally about...

   Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology

   Edited by Ian Douglas, David Goode, Mike Houck, Rusong Wang

   The birds, animals, insects, trees and plants encountered by the majority of the world’s people are those that survive in, adapt to, or are introduced to, urban areas. Some of these organisms give great pleasure; others invade, colonise and occupy neglected and hidden areas such as derelict land...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
7. Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

   Edited by Richard Parker, Marni Sommer

   At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage. They range from arsenic in drinking water to asthma among children and adults; from the re-emergence of cholera, to increasing cancer rates and other chronic diseases; from AIDS to malaria...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security

   Edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool

   This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked. The volume identifies varying definitions and dimensions of energy security, including those that prioritize security of supply...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

   Edited by Constance Lever-Tracy

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this...

   Published July 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

    Edited by Bryan S. Turner

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic,...

    Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge