Environmental Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Water and Climate Change in Africa

   Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

   Edited by Patricia E. Perkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

   In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Climate Change Negotiations

   A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation

   Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

   As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
5. Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance

   By Alain Guilloux

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid. Including case studies on Taiwan’s application to...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Federalism of Wetlands

   By Ryan Taylor

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   This book investigates the consequences of redundant state and federal environmental regulations in the United States. Drawing on the most exhaustive statistical analysis of US federal wetland permits ever constructed, the book uncovers the disjointed world of wetland regulation. The author starts...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
7. Balancing between Trade and Risk

   Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Marjolein B. A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, Ellen Vos

   The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Land and Resource Scarcity

   Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

   Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

   This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Climate Bonus

   Co-benefits of Climate Policy

   By Alison Smith

   We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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 3rd 2013 by Routledge