Environment & Sustainability: Environment & Theory

Edited by Henry Jarrett

The Nation Looks at its Resources records the key points of the Mid-Century Conference on Resources for the Future held in Washington in 1953. Originally published in 1954, this report reveals the concern felt by those attending the conference about the mounting pressure on our resources from the…

Paperback – 2017-04-03
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Edited by Joel Darmstadter

In preparation for the United Nation’s Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have been considered at the conference. Originally published earlier that year, Global Development and…

Paperback – 2017-04-02
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Edited by Milton F. Searl

In 1973, a seminar was held by Resources for the Future to bring together the new and growing community of scholars researching into the general field of energy modelling. Originally published in the same year, this report gathers together all of the papers presented at that seminar in order to…

Paperback – 2017-03-13
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Edited by William A. Vogely

Originally published in 1976, this study was undertaken to fill a gap in knowledge about non-fuel resources and the advantages and disadvantages of specific methodologies of analysing material modelling. Mineral Materials Modeling examines the influence of factors such as raw material price and…

Paperback – 2017-03-06
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Edited by Alex Wilkie, Martin Savransky, Marsha Rosengarten

Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social–natural, techno–scientific and political-economic developments. The future has indeed…

Hardback – 2017-02-27
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CRESC

By Tony Fitzpatrick

Environmental problems – particularly climate change – have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates is…

Hardback – 2017-02-24
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Edited by Susan M. Capalbo, John M. Antle

This book, first published in 1988, provides a comprehensive, integrated body of knowledge concerning agricultural productivity research, highlighting both its strengths and limitations. This book will be of value to scholars and research leaders for the knowledge it conveys of future productivity…

Paperback – 2017-02-24
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Edited by Chris Butler, Edward Mussawir

This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a variety of theoretical influences that include Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Antonio…

Hardback – 2017-01-26
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Space, Materiality and the Normative

Edited by Dena Fam, Jane Palmer, Chris Riedy, Cynthia Mitchell

‘Transdisciplinarity’ is a form of research and practice that synthesises knowledge from a range of academic disciplines and from the community. There is now global interest and a significant body of work on transdisciplinarity and its potential to address the apparently intractable problems of…

Hardback – 2016-11-02
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability

By Setha Low

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places…

Hardback – 2016-09-05
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Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices. Emergent Possibilities for…

Hardback – 2016-06-28
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Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy

Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until…

Hardback – 2016-06-21
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