Paperbacks Direct: Environmental Policy

By Margaret Stout, Jeannine M. Love

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including emergent theories of network and collaborative governance. The authors contest this narrow view and seek a more globally inclusive and transdisciplinary perspective, arguing such an approach is more fruitful in…

Paperback – 2020-03-01 
Routledge

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…

Paperback – 2020-02-07 
Routledge

Edited by Ben Caldecott

Drawing on the work of leading researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including economic geography, economics, economic history, finance, law, and public policy, this edited collection provides a comprehensive assessment of stranded assets and the environment, covering the…

Paperback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge

By Jun Rentschler

Countries around the world are spending up to $500 billion per year on subsidising fossil fuel consumption. By some estimates, the G20 countries alone are spending around another $450 billion on subsidising fossil fuel production. In addition, the indirect social welfare costs of these subsidies…

Paperback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge

Edited by Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen

As climate change has increasingly become the main focus of environmentalist activism since the late 1990s, the global economic drivers of CO2 emissions are now a major concern for radical greens. In turn, the emphasis on connected crises in both natural and social systems has attracted more…

Paperback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge

By Cecily Maller

Set in the ‘human–environment’ interaction space, this book applies new theoretical and practical insights to understanding what makes healthy urban environments. It stems from recognition that the world is rapidly urbanising and the international concern with how to create healthy settings and…

Paperback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge

Edited by Silja Klepp, Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Drawing on examples from countries including Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Russia, Tanzania, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands, the…

Paperback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge

Edited by Eleanor McDowell, James McCormick

Published in 1999, this volume provides the first thorough analysis of the elements of sustainable public policy in a devolved Scotland. Following the vote for a Scottish Parliament in the 1997 referendum, it explores the immediate and longer-term challenges likely to confront Scotland. The book…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Michael O'Neill

Published in 1997, This book offers an up-to-date guide to the Green parties of Western Europe as the optimism of the 1980s confronts the ‘Green fatigue’ of the 1990s. The approach is both thematic and comparative. Green politics in Europe is located in its historical and cultural context. There is…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Mardie Townsend

First published in 1998, this volume looks at the potential and motivation for companies and industries to go green. Mardie Townsend examines issues including human behaviour towards the environment, structuration theory, why companies go green and factors helping and hindering the ‘greening’…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Adrian Atkinson, Julio D. Dávila, Michael Mattingly

First published in 1999, this volume features contributors specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy, management, organisation and policy. A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers, they are written by…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Carsten Daugbjerg

First published in 1998, this book examines how established policy networks and the broader context within which they are embedded influence the choice of policy when change has been put on the agenda. It criticises the existing network literature for being predominantly descriptive, for having…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals