Environment and Sustainability Books

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31. Protecting the Atmosphere

    The Climate Change Convention and its context

    By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

    Series: International Environmental Governance Set

    'The authors take us into less-known corridors of climate Realpolitik and energy power play. We are provided with the essential vocabulary to understand what is at stake and how the challenge should be tackled' Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Global warming and the resulting climate change present one of...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
32. Nature's Spectacle

    The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

    By John Sheail

    National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
33. Mountain World in Danger

    Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

    By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

    Series: Sustainable Development Set

    The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
34. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

    A Guide for Latin America

    By Elizabeth Lokey

    Series: Environmental Market Insights

    This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
35. Emergence in Landscape Architecture

    By Rod Barnett

    All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called emergence. Related to chaos theory and self-organising systems, emergence highlights the ever changing and developing urban...

    Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
36. Low Carbon Development

    Key Issues

    Edited by Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvärd

    Series: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

    Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
37. Participatory Action Research

    Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

    By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

    This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
38. International Climate Finance

    Edited by Erik Haites

    The book is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address climate change in developing countries. The book presents the best information available...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
39. Community Biodiversity Management

    Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources

    Edited by Walter Simon de Boef, Abishkar Subedi, Nivaldo Peroni, Marja Thijssen, Elizabeth O'Keeffe

    Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

    The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
40. Sustainable Development in Amazonia

    Paradise in the Making

    By Kei Otsuki

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

    This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge