Environmental Issues Books

New and Published Books

1. The Zeronauts

   Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

   By John Elkington

   A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

   Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11

   Edited by Jeff Kingston

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

   Edited by Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos, Daniel Schodek

   You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Global Environmental Forest Policies

   An International Comparison

   By Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, Peter Kanowski

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Food, Globalization and Sustainability

   By Peter Oosterveer, David A. Sonnenfeld

   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
7. Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature

   Edited by Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Phillip Payne, Alan Reid

   Recent scholarship on children’s literature displays a wide variety of interests in classic and contemporary children’s books. While environmental and ecological concerns have led to an interest in ‘ecocriticism’, as yet there is little on the significance of the ecological imagination and...

   Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

   By Amanda Cahill Ripley

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Green Activism in Post-Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union

   Edited by Adam Fagan, JoAnn Carmin

   Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, environmentalists were expected to exert influence within the new democracies and to form the bedrock of the new civil societies that were predicted to...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Education for Sustainable Development

    Papers in Honour of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)

    Edited by Brian Chalkley, Martin Haigh, David Higgitt

    In 2005, The United Nations launched its Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which recognises that education, including Higher Education is the key to the change in social attitudes that will be needed to protect the welfare of future generations. This involves helping learners to live...

    Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge