Political Ecology Books

New and Published Books

1. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

   By Peter Hess

   Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics

   Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Marine Environmental Governance

   From International Law to Local Practice

   By Erika Techera

   Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

   Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

   Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

   Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ecologies and Politics of Health

   Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity

   Edited by Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco, Angelo Di Mambro

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
10. Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy

    Economics in the Era of Climate Change

    By Christopher Nobbs

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    How should we conduct economics in an era of climate change, natural resource depletion and population increase? These issues are systemic, and involve great uncertainties and long time horizons. This book contends that the free-market economics that has dominated capitalist democracies in recent...

    Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge