Paperbacks Direct: Biodiversity & Conservation

Edited by Kléber Ghimire

The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish. However, this book differs from existing literature in several important ways. It is not another publication on future scenarios guided by a linear technological fix - nor is it simply a volume of new statistics on…

Paperback – 2020-01-16 
Routledge

Edited by Martina Padmanabhan

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic ‘practice partners’ is at the core of this; creating contextualised, socially relevant knowledge about complex real-world problems.…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Usha Tandon, Mohan Parasaran, Sidharth Luthra

Conservation of biodiversity is a fundamental concern towards securing a sustainable future. This volume argues that despite various domestic and international policies and legal frameworks on biodiversity conservation — be it forest, wildlife, marine, coastal, etc. — their implementation suffers…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge India

By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann

In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Noureddine Benkeblia

Presenting an overview of agroecology within the framework of climate change, this book looks at the impact of our changing climate on crop production and agroecosystems, reporting on how plants will cope with these changes, and how we can mitigate these negative impacts to ensure…

Paperback – 2019-11-27
CRC Press

Edited by Jeffrey C Carrier, Michael R. Heithaus, Colin A. Simpfendorfer

Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development, refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology. These have given new insight into the fields of shark genetics, feeding, foraging, bioenergetics, imaging, age and growth,…

Paperback – 2019-11-25
CRC Press

Edited by S.S. Ajayi, L.B Halstead

Originally published in 1979, Wildlife Management in Savannah Woodland provides a multidisciplinary approach to the environment. Developed by local scientists with a deep knowledge and understanding of the local situation, the book provides a pragmatic and realistic approach to West African…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Vivienne Westbrook, Shaun Collin, Dean Crawford, Mark Nicholls

This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a…

Paperback – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities

Edited by Nancy Cushing, Jodi Frawley

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they…

Paperback – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities

Edited by Sharlene Mollett, Thembela Kepe

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand,…

Paperback – 2019-10-17
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

By John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman

We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population…

Paperback – 2019-10-02
Routledge
Environmental and Resource Economics Set

Edited by Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, Sahotra Sarkar

Biological diversity - or ‘biodiversity’ - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature the very concept of biodiversity is the subject of debate amongst philosophers,…

Paperback – 2019-09-11
Routledge