Environmental Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics

   Edited by Kevin Maréchal

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Environmental Finance and Development

   By Sanja Tišma, Ana Maria Boromisa, Ana Pavičić Kaselj

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU. Based on comparative analysis of national environmental strategies and financial needs, and their links with strategic development documents in five selected countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia,...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis

   By Karine Nyborg

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. The aim of this book is to discuss some of the ethical and political issues arising in the context of applied cost-benefit analysis and environmental valuation – and to do so using economic analysis, but in a language accessible to...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Climate Change at the City Scale

   Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

   Edited by Anton Cartwright, Susan Parnell, Gregg Oelofse, Sarah Ward

   Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Discourses of Environmental Law and the Conceptualisation of Climate Change

   By Jo-Ann Goodie

   The complex phenomenon known as ‘the natural environment’ is a product of a variety of discourses. This book explores the emergence of different discourses of the environment – scientific, economic, political, aesthetic, moral and legal discourses – analyzing the simultaneous separateness and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology

   A Case Study of the Integrated Product Policy of the European Union

   By Jakub Kronenberg

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology. Concentrating on the conceptual background of ecological economics...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia

   Locating the commonweal

   Edited by Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

    Toward a Green Silicon Island

    By Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge