Environment & the Developing World Books

New and Published Books

1. Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

   The Case of India

   By Manu Mathai

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question...

   Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Biofuels and Rural Poverty

   By Joy Clancy

   Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation

   By Tim Magee

   The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Globalization, Political Institutions and the Environment in Developing Countries

   By Gabriele Spilker

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

   Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount. The fallout from this increase is evidenced by the struggle of cities like Beijing to...

   Published December 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Water Harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Edited by William Critchley, John Gowing

   Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by highly variable rainfall, frequent drought and low water productivity. There is an urgent need, heightened by climate change, for appropriate technologies to address this problem through managing and increasing the quantity of water on...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by David Jensen, Stephen Lonergan

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Protecting Biological Diversity

   The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-sharing Regimes

   By Carmen Richerzhagen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention. Among the numerous approaches undertaken to stop or lessen this process, access and benefit-sharing (ABS), a market-based approach, has emerged as among the most prominent. In theory, ABS turns...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa

   Foreign direct investment and food and water security

   Edited by John Anthony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. An Introduction to Sustainable Development

   4th Edition

   By Jennifer Elliott

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Rural Development Theory and Practice

    By Ruth McAreavey

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge