Environmental Issues Books

New and Published Books

1. The Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas

   A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management

   By Natalie Bown, Tim S. Gray, Selina M. Stead

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

   In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM). CM is characterized by the decentralization of the decision-making process, incorporating the...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Human Dependence on Nature

   How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis

   By Haydn Washington

   Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case. The energy that powers our very cells, the nutrients that make up our bodies, the ecosystem services that clean our water and air; these are all provided by the Nature from which we have evolved and...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Quality of Life and Public Management

   Redefining Development in the Local Environment

   By John Whitelegg

   Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK. Strongly evidence-based, the book draws on case study data and comparisons into local and central government structure,...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Local Climate Change and Society

   Edited by M. A. Mohamed Salih

   Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

   Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...

   Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance

   Rethinking Participation, Learning and Innovation

   Edited by Hemant Ojha, Andy Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman V

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

   The purpose of this book is to showcase a range of approaches that consider learning and collaboration as central processes in agriculture and natural resources governance and management. These include four related and overlapping adaptive collaborative approaches – Adaptive Collaborative...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sustainability

   Duty or Opportunity for Business?

   By Michael Norton

   Businesses are nowadays expected to act sustainably; it is also in both society’s and the company’s own interest if opportunities to develop more sustainable products or services can be fully grasped. Leading international companies may already be moving in this direction, but many (especially...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Zeronauts

   Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

   By John Elkington

   A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Ecological Public Health

   Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

   By Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

   What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

    Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11

    Edited by Jeff Kingston

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced...

    Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge