Recent Professional Articles

1. 

   Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Erika Weinthal, Jessica J. Troell and Mikiyasu Nakayama

   As a basic human need, the provision of safe water is among the highest priorities of government and humanitarian interventions during post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. In the aftermath of war, water, sanitation, and infrastructure play a critical role in the recovery of livelihoods and economic development. Moreover, shared waters have great potential for interstate cooperation, assisting to rebuild trust following conflict and to prevent a return to conflict. This volume draws on studies from around the world to create a framework for understanding how water resources decisions and activities can facilitate or undermine peacebuilding in a post-conflict setting.

2. 

   Bioenergy Production by Anaerobic Digestion

   Edited by Nicholas E. Korres, Padraig O'Kiely, John A.H. Benzie and Jonathan S. West

   Interest in anaerobic digestions, the process of energy production through production of biogas, has increased rapidly in recent years. This book is one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential as a viable means to turn agricultural crops or crop residues, animal and other organic waste, into biomethane.

3. 

   Diversifying Food and Diets

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

   This book aims to explore what the current state of knowledge is on the role of agricultural biodiversity in improving nutrition and food security. The book will examine and challenge some of the prevailing myths and assumptions to improving nutrition through agriculture mechanisms so as to identify the key research and implementation gaps.

4. 

   Disaster Management

   Edited by Alejandro López-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Kelman Kelman and JC Gallard

   There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field. In disaster management this gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialog between theory and practice.

5. 

   Community Biodiversity Management

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

   The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of community biodiversity management (CBM) as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change.

6. 

   Nature and Culture

   Edited by Sarah Pilgrim and Jules N. Pretty

   This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice.
    

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   Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams
   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   This book, by twenty-five authors, considers experiences with, and approaches to, post-conflict land issues in sixteen countries and in varied social and geographic settings. Highlighting key concepts that are important for understanding how to address land rights in the wake of armed conflict, the book provides a theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

8. 

   Investing in Water for a Green Economy

   Edited by Mike Young and Christine Esau
   
   In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities for investment and for improving its management.
   
   
    

9. 

   Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions, Second Edition

   By John Handmer and Stephen Dovers
   
   This updated and revised second edition includes new coverage of climate change adaptation, which has rapidly become central to disaster and emergency planning and management. This is an essential handbook for practitioners across the world seeking to improve the quality, robustness and capacity of their disaster management mechanisms.

10. Critiquing Sustainability, Changing Philosophy by Jenneth Parker

    To increasing numbers of people, sustainability is the key challenge of the twenty-first century. In the many fields where it is a goal, persistent problems obstruct the efforts of those trying to make a difference. The task of this book is to identify the philosophical failings underlying these problems, on the basis that the ways in which we conceptualise sustainability may contribute to, or alternately undermine vital projects.

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