Political Ecology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Water Policy Processes in India

   Discourses of Power and Resistance

   By Vandana Asthana

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy

   Nihilism and Responsibility

   By Mats Andrén

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level. This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

    Edited by Laura Anne German, Alain Karsenty, Anne Marie Tiani

    Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge