Environment and Sustainability
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An Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability. The book teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed...
Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge
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Art, Culture and International Development
Humanizing social transformation
Series: Rethinking Development
Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book...
Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge
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China's Foreign Relations and the Survival of Autocracies
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
The Chinese government has frequently been criticized for propping up anti-democratic governments. This book investigates the rise of China as an emerging authoritarian power. By comparing China’s bilateral relations to three Asian developing countries – Burma, Cambodia and Mongolia – it examines...
Published November 7th 2014 by Routledge
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Ecocultures
Blueprints for Sustainable Communities
The world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being and...
Published December 9th 2014 by Routledge
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Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability
Theories, strategies, local realities
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth. Understanding this global shift and its impact on the environment is the paramount contemporary challenge for...
Published October 10th 2014 by Routledge
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Environmental Politics in Latin America
Elite dynamics, the left tide and sustainable development
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to protect the environment from over-exploitation and contamination have been related to marginalized groups...
Published November 10th 2014 by Routledge
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Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education
Learning in an age of transformation
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
In a time of unprecedented transformation as society seeks to build a more sustainable future, education plays an increasingly central role in training key agents of change. This book asks how we can equip students and scholars with the capabilities to promote sustainability and how the higher...
Published October 20th 2014 by Routledge
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Marine Biodiversity, Climatic Variability and Global Change
Series: Earthscan Oceans
Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now. What is less well documented is the effect of such activities, including climate change, on marine biodiversity. This pioneering book is the first to address...
Published November 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Reconstructing Sustainability Science
Knowledge and action for a sustainable future
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality—present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that...
Published December 10th 2014 by Routledge
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Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City
Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur
Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development
The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating...
Published October 10th 2014 by Routledge
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Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability
Beyond behaviour change
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social sciences on other modes and methods of intervening in social...
Published November 7th 2014 by Routledge
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Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand...
Published December 3rd 2014 by Routledge
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The Emerging Middle Class in Africa
The emergence of the African middle class as a driver of Africa’s economic growth stands out as an important milestone in Africa’s contemporary economic history. This growth, though uneven, is a source of hope for Africa, but also a signal to the rest of the world on the prospects for economic...
Published October 9th 2014 by Routledge
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The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
Livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something ‘out there’ that we adapt to. Instead, it is part of the social and...
Published November 17th 2014 by Routledge
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Towards Low Carbon Cities in China
Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Series: Routledge Studies in Low Carbon Development
This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’ access...
Published October 7th 2014 by Routledge
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Transformative Sustainable Development
Participation, reflection and change
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable...
Published December 17th 2014 by Routledge
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Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change
When it comes to climate change, the greatest difficulty we face is that we do not know the likely degree of change or its cost, which means that environmental policy decisions have to be made under uncertainty. This book offers an accessible philosophical treatment of the broad range of ethical...
Published October 9th 2014 by Routledge
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Understanding Human Ecology
A systems approach to sustainability
We are facing hugely complex challenges – from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human Ecology provides an approach to address these complex challenges, a way to understand them holistically and to start to manage them more...
Published November 11th 2014 by Routledge
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Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice
Circles of sustainability
Series: Advances in Urban Sustainability
Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet. However, for this to be realized in more than an ad hoc way, a substantial rethinking of current approaches and practices needs to occur....
Published October 7th 2014 by Routledge
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Want, Waste or War?
The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals
In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and...
Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge