Environmental Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Climate Change Negotiations

   A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation

   Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

   As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
4. 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
5. Low Carbon Development

   Key Issues

   Edited by Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvärd

   Series: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

   Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Balancing between Trade and Risk

   Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Marjolein B. A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, Ellen Vos

   The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Analyzing Global Environmental Issues

   Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications

   Edited by Ariel Dinar, Amnon Rapoport

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   The existence of environmental dilemmas and political conflicts leads us to appreciate the need for individuals and groups to behave strategically in order to achieve their goals and maintain their wellbeing. Global issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution, as well as...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sustainability for Healthcare Management

   A Leadership Imperative

   By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, Seema S. Wadhwa

   Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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