Environment & Resources Books

New and Published Books

1. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

   Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

   Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. Principles of Sustainable Aquaculture

   Promoting Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience

   By Stuart W. Bunting

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, principally fish, molluscs, crustaceans and marine algae. It has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past fifty years and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high quality protein to feed the world's growing population,...

   Published December 10th 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. Bankrupting Nature

   Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

   By Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström

   This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

   Edited by Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins, Rudo Gaidzanwa

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Green vs. Green

   The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

   By Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

   Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. The New Geographies of Energy

    Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes

    Edited by Karl Zimmerer

    The New Geographies of Energy: Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes is a pioneering collection of new geographic scholarship. It examines such vitally important research topics as energy dilemmas of the United States, large trends and patterns of energy consumption including China’s role,...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge