Environmental Change & Pollution Books

New and Published Books

1. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

   Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

   By Stuart K. Allison

   What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state, what is the appropriate outcome? With climate change now threatening...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nuclear Waste Management in a Globalised World

   Edited by Urban Strandberg, Mats Andrén

   High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue. For the next 100 years, the HLW will be subject to policy decisions and value assessments. Physically safe, technologically stable, and socio-economically sustainable HLW-management will top the agenda. That must be accomplished in...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ecological Public Health

   Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

   By Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

   What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Climate Change and Social Ecology

   A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge

   By Stephen M. Wheeler

   Although strategies to prevent global warming – such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use – are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed. They have also been unwilling to...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Climate Change and Australia

   Warming to the Global Challenge

   By Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens, James Slezak

   Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of this century. Politicians have risen and fallen on its wake, elections have been fought around it, and international leaders have come under unprecedented scrutiny by civil society. As Australia is battered by hotter summers, more frequent...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Federation Press
6. Geography of Climate Change

   Edited by Richard Aspinall

   Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

   Edited by Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Richard Longhurst

   Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing countries are ill equipped to cope with seasonal variations which can lead to drought or flood and consequences for agriculture,...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

   Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

    Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

    By H. H. Lamb

    Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

    First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge