Environment & Sustainability: Environment & Theory

By Christopher Day, Julie Gwilliam

It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities – the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design. In Living…

Paperback – 2019-09-01 
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By John Button

First published in 1988. A Dictionary of Green Ideas collects together the concepts which go to make up a green view of the world. Ecology and the environment, conservation and appropriate technology, politics and philosophy, peace and health, spirituality and world development - all these areas…

Hardback – 2019-07-09 
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Edited by David Cadman, Geoffrey Payne

First published in 1990. The options and probabilities for the future of cities are issues of outstanding contemporary importance, both in the developed and developing worlds. The Living City draws together both current mainstream ideas on their futures and various alternative views to enliven the…

Hardback – 2019-07-09 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sustainability

Edited by Felix Dodds

First published in 1997. 1997 marked the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the celebrated ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro which represented the high-water mark of intergovernmental action for sustainable development. Whilst some were tempted to…

Hardback – 2019-07-09 
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Edited by Johan Holmberg

First published in 1992. The world is not living within its means. Current development policies, in both industrial and developing countries, are wasting resources and destroying the commons on which we all depend. The world is set on a path of deepening poverty and a deteriorating environment. New…

Hardback – 2019-07-09 
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By James Magrini

Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of nature.…

Hardback – 2019-06-25 
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Edited by Gabriel R. Ricci

The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism and ecospirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to a…

Paperback – 2019-06-17 
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Religion and Public Life

Edited by Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman, Johan Öhman

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching…

Hardback – 2019-06-05 
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability

Edited by Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Ana Simões, Davide Sarso

This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of…

Hardback – 2019-04-24 
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Routledge Environmental Humanities

By Brendan F. D. Barrett, Riki Therivel

First published in 1991. Japanese attitudes to pollution and environmental protection were distinctly equivocal. The Japanese are a nature-loving people, yet they are responsible for widespread environmental destruction; Japan has some of the world’s strictest environmental quality standards, but…

Hardback – 2019-04-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy

Edited by Susan Baker, Kay Milton, Steven Yearley

First published in 1994. ln Protecting the Periphery the editors present a series of papers revealing the impact of EU policies on environmental quality in regions at the edge of the European Union and in those lying just outside it. In many cases these regions contain habitats and landscapes of…

Hardback – 2019-04-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy

Edited by John R. Gold, Jacquelin Burgess

First published in 1982. People care about places. Inhabitants demand more participation in the changes proposed for their local environments, activists urge greater protection of countryside and natural environments, decision-makers feel threatened by the antagonism aroused by their powers and…

Hardback – 2019-04-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy