Environment & Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

   Green Sprawl

   Edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Engaging with Climate Change

   Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Sally Weintrobe

   Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series

   How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to...

   Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Social Life of Climate Change Models

   Anticipating Nature

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Martin Skrydstrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender, Development and Environmental Governance

   Theorizing Connections

   By Seema Arora-Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene

   Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis

   Edited by Marion Glaser, Gesche Krause, Beate M.W. Ratter, Martin Welp

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

   This book deals with the potentials of social-ecological systems analysis for resolving sustainability problems. Contributors relate inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives to systemic dynamics, human behavior and the different dimensions and scales. With a problem-focused,...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

   A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

   Edited by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
8. Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos

   Complexity Theory, Deleuze|Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis

   By Joseph Dodds

   This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions...

   Published July 24th 2011 by Routledge
10. Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

    Exploiting Eden

    By Sharae Deckard

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical...

    Published December 2nd 2009 by Routledge