Critical Concepts in the Environment

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1. Future Climate Change

   Edited by Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   In recent years, future climate change has increasingly been recognized as one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century, challenging the very structure of our global society. No longer just an abstruse scientific concern, it prompts difficult choices for both individuals and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Ecological Economics

   Edited by Clive Spash

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new four-volume Routledge Major Work brings together canonical and cutting-edge research in ecological economics. In tracing both the development of thought in the field, as well as exploring the most recent scholarship, diverse elements of the rapidly...

   Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
3. Biodiversity and Conservation

   Edited by Richard Ladle

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Although ‘biodiversity’ is a relatively new coinage, scientists have been studying the subject it describes long before the word’s first appearance in the language in the mid-1980s. In 1973, for instance, the UK Systematics Association held a symposium on ‘The Changing Flora and Fauna of Britain’...

   Published November 16th 2008 by Routledge
4. Environmental Economics

   Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by Chuck Mason, Erwin Bulte

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Environmental economics is dedicated to the analysis of externalities (i.e. the side-effects or consequences of industrial or commercial activities that are not reflected in market prices), including the characterization of possible manifestations, appropriate policy remedies, measurement of the...

   Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
5. Environmental Philosophy

   Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by J. Baird Callicott, Clare Palmer

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   This collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s (when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative...

   Published December 1st 2004 by Routledge
6. Environmentalism

   Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by David Pepper, George Revill, Frank Webster

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. This five volume set provides wide-ranging coverage of the state and scope of environmentalism from its science-driven, physical geography-focused roots to its spread to social science and cultural studies. The articles and accompanying...

   Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
7. Climate Change

   Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by Frank Chambers, Michael Ogle

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   The science of climate change has experienced an extraordinary expansion in the period since the mid-1980s and is paralleled by considerable public and political awareness of related issues.The degree of natural variability in, and the causes of, climate change have become particularly important...

   Published October 30th 2002 by Routledge