Development Studies: Sustainable Development

By Tushaar Shah

In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions…

Paperback – 2018-08-06
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Edited by Anitra Nelson, François Schneider

‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs. This groundbreaking…

Hardback – 2018-08-03
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Routledge Environmental Humanities

By Amanda Rohloff

Edited by André Saramago

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem. This book contributes to filling this gap by…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
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Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Edited by John Whitton, Matthew Cotton, Ioan M. Charnley-Parry, Kathy Brasier

Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, have increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to manage the risks of unconventional oil and gas…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
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Routledge Studies in Energy Policy

Edited by Chiara Tornaghi, Chiara Certomà

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
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Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series

By Haydn Washington

Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature. This book focuses on humanity’s relation with nature, and the sense of wonder and…

Paperback – 2018-08-01
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By Sukehiro Hasegawa

Originally published in 2013, Peacebuilding and National Ownership in Timor-Leste is an insightful, analytical presentation of developments that took place in Timor-Leste from July 2002 to September 2006. It reflects an intimate knowledge of events during this period and provides a detailed focus…

Hardback – 2018-07-27
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by Tsitsi Chataika

This comprehensive ground-breaking southern African-centred collection spans the breadth of disability research and practice. Reputable and emerging scholars, together with disability advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to prove, challenge and shift commonly held social…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
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Edited by Najma Mohamed

South Africa’s transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country’s national climate change response strategy. Despite significant gains in socio-economic development since its transition to democracy,…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability

Edited by Oliver Cumming, Tom Slaymaker

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable. As a result, the progressive reduction of inequalities is now an explicit focus of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets, adopted in…

Paperback – 2018-07-24
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Earthscan Water Text

Edited by Nathalie Blanc, Barbara L. Benish

Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and its potential as a catalyst for social change…

Paperback – 2018-07-24
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Edited by Shunsuke Managi, Pushpam Kumar

The Inclusive Wealth Index provides important insights into long-term economic growth and human well-being. The Index measures the wealth of nations through a comprehensive analysis of a country's productive base and the country’s wealth in terms of progress, well-being and long-term sustainability…

Hardback – 2018-07-23
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