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1. Design Education for a Sustainable Future

   By Rob Fleming

   Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Singapore Water Story

   Sustainable Development in an Urban City-State

   By Cecilia Tortajada, Yugal Kishore Joshi, Asit K. Biswas

   Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Participatory Action Research

   Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

   By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

   This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

   By Arjen Y. Hoekstra

   Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Urban Ecosystems

   Understanding the Human Environment

   By Robert A. Francis, Michael A. Chadwick

   With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood. This book aims...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. Community Biodiversity Management

   Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources

   Edited by Walter Simon de Boef, Abishkar Subedi, Nivaldo Peroni, Marja Thijssen, Elizabeth O'Keeffe

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. 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
11. Environmental Security

    Approaches and Issues

    Edited by Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew

    Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental...

    Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
12. State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

    Prosperity of Cities

    By Un Habitat

    The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a&...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
13. 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
14. 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
15. Formal Peace and Informal War

    Security and Development in Congo

    By Zoë Marriage

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

    Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule,...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
16. International Climate Finance

    Edited by Erik Haites

    The book is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address climate change in developing countries. The book presents the best information available...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
17. Sustainable Development in Amazonia

    Paradise in the Making

    By Kei Otsuki

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

    This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
18. The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia

    By Pitou van Dijck

    This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme. IIRSA aims at facilitating intra-regional trade and at improving trade and transport links with world markets....

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. Transferable Groundwater Rights

    Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics

    By Andreas N. Charalambous

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
20. Global Ethics on Climate Change

    The Planetary Crisis and Philosophical Alternatives

    Edited by Martin Schonfeld

    The volatility of climate change is increasing. It is bad news, and many climatologists, policy analysts and environmental groups regard the West as the largest contributor to the problems caused by climate change. This book raises questions concerning the systemic and cultural reasons for Western...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
21. Water Quality Policy and Management in Asia

    Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

    Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

    Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.757 billion urban population and 2.4 billion people in rural areas (or approximately 60 per cent of the global population). Divided into central, eastern, southern, south-eastern and western regions, the continent is also extremely heterogeneous in terms of...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge