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Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
The risks of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss throw into focus the impact of humans on ecosystem processes and our dependency, in turn, on the services those processes provide. Adapting our ways of life – our settlements and our systems of food production – to changing...
To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Food, Globalization and Sustainability
Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of...
Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
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The Ecological Modernisation Reader
Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice
Environmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This definitive collection showcases an introduction to Ecological Modernisation Theory; state-of-the-art review essays by key...
Published July 19th 2009 by Routledge
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Ecological Modernisation Around the World
Perspectives and Critical Debates
Series: Environmental Politics
The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy-oriented approach is the view that contemporary societies have the capability of dealing with their environmental...
Published March 31st 2000 by Routledge