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1. 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
2. Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

   Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation, 2nd Edition

   By John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

   Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

   Published January 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading

   Towards a Low-Carbon Future

   By Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez

   Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about...

   Published December 19th 2012 by RFF Press
4. Ecological Economics from the Ground Up

   Edited by Hali Healy, Joan Martínez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Julien-François Gerber

   Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

   By Geoff Wilson

   This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Security Governance, Policing, and Local Capacity

   By Jan Froestad, Clifford Shearing

   Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

   The security governance of South Africa has faced immense challenges amid post-apartheid constitutional and political transformations. In many cases, policing and governmental organizations have failed to provide security and other services to the poorest inhabitants. Security Governance, Policing,...

   Published December 12th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons

   Challenges in International Law and Governance

   Edited by Michael Halewood, Isabel Lopez Noriega, Selim Louafi

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Nile River Basin

   Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods

   Edited by Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Vladimir Smakhtin, David Molden, Don Peden

   The Nile provides freshwater not only for domestic and industrial use, but also for irrigated agriculture, hydropower dams and the vast fisheries resource of the lakes of Central Africa. The Nile River Basin covers the whole Nile Basin and is based on the results of three major research projects...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Spatial Dimension of Risk

   How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

   Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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