Environments Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations

   Managing Environmental Power

   By Michael Greenberg

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...

   Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Coastal Engineering

   Processes, Theory and Design Practice, 2nd Edition

   By Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

   Historically, much harm has been done by well-meaning coastal engineering attempts, which seemed like good ideas on paper but which failed to allow for practical issues. For this reason, it is vital that theories and models are well grounded in practice. This second edition brings the models and...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
6. The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans

   Mapping the World's Marine Areas

   By Don Hinrichsen

   Series: The Earthscan Atlas

   This unique assessment of the world's coasts and oceans details the ecological, environmental and economic importance of each and the global challenges we face to manage common waters and the resources they contain before development threatens to destroy the ultimate source of all life on the 'blue...

   Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Physical Geography: The Basics

   By Joseph Holden

   Series: The Basics

   Physical Geography: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the interactions, systems and processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, the physical world around us. This book introduces five key aspects of the study of physical geography: atmosphere, weather and climate systems...

   Published April 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Confronting Climate Change

   By Constance Lever-Tracy

   Series: Shortcuts

   What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change? How will the world respond to the challenges of climate change in the twenty-first century? How should people think about confronting the politics of climate change? In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted...

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation, Second Edition

   By John G. Lyon, Lynn Krise Lyon

   Series: Mapping Science

   Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice. Despite the time and expense, it is an economic and environmental necessity. The Definitive Guide to the Practice of Wetland Identification The second edition of the bestselling Practical Handbook...

   Published March 20th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Transforming Urban Waterfronts

    Fixity and Flow

    Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

    Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

    In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

    Published September 8th 2010 by Routledge