Environmental Studies Products

Edited by Tim Hayward

The notion of ‘human rights’ is perhaps the most weighty and widely recognized ethical category of our time, while environmental threats are among the greatest challenges currently facing civilization. It is unsurprising therefore that questions about and around the connection between human…

Hardback – 2017-09-25
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Alan Reid, Justin Dillon

Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing subject and its multidisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature, ‘Environmental Education’ is a new title from the acclaimed Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment. Edited by two of the…

Hardback – 2016-12-16
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvard

If—as many environmental experts maintain—global climate change is the greatest challenge of our times, the need for a serious, and universal, commitment to low-carbon development is more urgent than ever. Low-carbon development might be described as climate-friendly growth that enables humanity to…

Hardback – 2016-08-31
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Critical Concepts in Development Studies

Edited by Eva Sternfeld

This four volume collection of selected works examines the political, social and economic aspects of the interaction between Chinese society and the natural environment from past to present as well as future challenges. Volume 1 and 2 are dedicated to China’s environmental history and the…

Hardback – 2015-10-26
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Susan Buckingham

Campaigns to redress gender inequities and injustices have resulted in significant achievements towards equality, especially for well-educated, career-orientated, white women in the West. However, such campaigns have primarily been conducted in the male-dominated arenas of public politics, paid…

Hardback – 2015-06-12
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Ben Wisner, J. C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

Especially in an era of rapid global environmental change, questions and issues about and around natural hazards and disasters are dizzying in their complexity—and urgency. Answering the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this fast-moving area, and its vast and…

Hardback – 2015-03-31
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Anders Hansen

Most of what we understand about ‘the environment’, we know through the media, broadly defined, and related communication processes. Indeed, such processes have played a vital role in defining ‘the environment’ as a crucial concept, and in bringing environmental issues and problems to public and…

Hardback – 2013-10-23
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by John Blewitt

The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. But sustainable development remains highly contested and is subject to a wide variety of interpretations,…

Hardback – 2013-08-21
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Edith Gray, Zhongwei Zhao

Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and…

Hardback – 2012-11-23
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Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Edited by David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie

'Nature' is perhaps the most contested term in the social sciences. It has a huge variety of possible meanings, and an equally great number of implications as to what human life actually is and how it should be studied. Questions frequently raised include: What is 'nature'? What is 'human nature'?…

Hardback – 2005-05-19
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Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Edited by J. Baird Callicott, Clare Palmer

This collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s (when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative…

Hardback – 2004-12-02
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by David Pepper, George Revill, Frank Webster

Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. This five volume set provides wide-ranging coverage of the state and scope of environmentalism from its science-driven, physical geography-focused roots to its spread to social science and cultural studies. The articles and accompanying…

Hardback – 2002-11-21
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Critical Concepts in the Environment