Paperbacks Direct: Environment and Sustainability

Edited by Pasi Heikkurinen

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth’s biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have recorded and forecasted worrying global temperature rises going back to the early twentieth century, while biologists and palaeontologists have…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Md Saiful Karim

This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh. In the past, shipbreaking (the disposal of obsolete ships) was a very common industrial activity in many developed countries. However, due to stringent domestic environmental and labour…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Shawkat Alam, Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Jona Razzaque

International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources. In this book, several…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Derek G. Ross

Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling

An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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

By Takashi Nakazawa

Conflicts over waste disposal facility siting is a pressing issue not only in developed countries but also in fast-growing countries that face drastic waste increase and rapid urbanisation. How to address distributive justice has been one of the biggest concerns.This book examines what determines…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by John Foster

The sustainability discourse and policy paradigm have failed to deliver. In particular, they have failed to avert the dangerously disruptive climate change which is now inevitable. So, if there is still a case for some transformed or revitalised version of sustainability, that case must now surely…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Donald G. Reid

The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing separation between the rich and poor. The aim of this book is to examine the social constructions that have led to these breakdowns, and provide potential solutions that are based on a fundamental change in…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Mikko Rask, Saulė Mačiukaitė-Žvinienė, Loreta Tauginienė, Vytautas Dikčius, Kaisa Matschoss, Timo Aarrevaara, Luciano d’Andrea

The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population.Promoting public participation means giving more weight to…

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 Donato Gualtieri

The consequences of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in non-native ecosystems is an area of growing interest for 　international policymakers and regulators. Globalisation has increased the rate and magnitude of biological invasions, resulting in huge environmental, economic and…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge