Biodiversity & Conservation Books

New and Published Books

1. Diversifying Food and Diets

   Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health

   Edited by Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Federico Mattei

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Currently 925 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted. At the same time, over 1 billion people are overweight and obese in both the developed and developing world. Diseases previously associated with affluence, such as cancer, diabetes and...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

   Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

   According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Food Policy in the United States

   An Introduction

   By Parke Wilde

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Nature's Spectacle

   The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

   By John Sheail

   National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Exploited Earth

   Britain's aid and the environment

   By Teresa Hayter

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

   By John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Land and Resource Scarcity

   Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

   Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

   This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Sustainable University

   Progress and prospects

   Edited by Stephen Sterling, Larch Maxey, Heather Luna

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties. This book seeks to inspire positive change in higher education by exploring the rich notion of the sustainable university and illustrating pathways through which...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Climate Bonus

   Co-benefits of Climate Policy

   By Alison Smith

   We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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