Political Ecology Books

New and Published Books

1. Water Policy Processes in India

   Discourses of Power and Resistance

   By Vandana Asthana

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy

   Nihilism and Responsibility

   By Mats Andrén

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level. This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Agriculture in Urban Planning

   Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

   Edited by Mark Redwood

   This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
4. Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

   Edited by Laura Anne German, Alain Karsenty, Anne Marie Tiani

   Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Marine Environmental Governance

   From International Law to Local Practice

   By Erika Techera

   Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Political Ecology

   Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts

   The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
7. Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia

   ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution

   By Paruedee Nguitragool

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
8. Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

   Edited by John Grattan, Robin Torrence

   Series: One World Archaeology

   Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies...

   Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Ecological Modernisation Reader

   Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren

   Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological...

   Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge
10. 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