Environment and Sustainability Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance

   By Alain Guilloux

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid. Including case studies on Taiwan’s application to...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Protecting the Atmosphere

   The Climate Change Convention and its context

   By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

   Series: International Environmental Governance Set

   'The authors take us into less-known corridors of climate Realpolitik and energy power play. We are provided with the essential vocabulary to understand what is at stake and how the challenge should be tackled' Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Global warming and the resulting climate change present one of...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Mountain World in Danger

   Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

   By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

   Series: Sustainable Development Set

   The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

   A Guide for Latin America

   By Elizabeth Lokey

   Series: Environmental Market Insights

   This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Cost-Effective Control of Urban Smog

   The Significance of the Chicago Cap-and-Trade Approach

   By Richard Kosobud, Houston Stokes, Carol Tallarico, Brian Scott

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Containing rigorous hard evidence, this book is of immense practical use to postgraduates, researchers and business communities affected by or working in environmental regulation. The author, a leading name in the environmental economics community, examines the problem of urban smog in cityscapes...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects

   By John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise A. Fallon, Paul B. Sherman, Supachit Manipomoke

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Gender and Natural Resource Management

   Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions

   Edited by Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Rebecca Elmhirst

   This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Elephants, Economics and Ivory

    By Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson, David W. Pearce

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge