Environment and Sustainability Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. The Biomass Assessment Handbook

   Energy for a sustainable environment, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle, Peter de Groot, Sarah L. Hemstock, Jeremy Woods

   The increasing importance of biomass as a renewable energy source has led to an acute need for reliable and detailed information on its assessment, consumption and supply. Responding to this need, and overcoming the lack of standardised measurement and accounting procedures, this best-selling...

   Published June 5th 2015 by Routledge
2. Governing Climate Change

   2nd Edition

   By Harriet Bulkeley, Peter Newell

   Series: Global Institutions

   Governing Climate Change, Second Edition, provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities. This updated edition also includes:...

   Published June 2nd 2015 by Routledge
3. The Elements of Environmental Pollution

   By John Rieuwerts

   Environmental pollution is one of humanity’s most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Anthropogenic activity is disturbing natural cycles and generating pollutants that are altering the atmosphere, accumulating in the food chain and contaminating the world’s soils, rivers...

   Published April 16th 2015 by Routledge
4. Events and Sustainability

   By Kirsten Holmes, Michael Hughes, Judith Mair, Jack Carlsen

   Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for...

   Published March 27th 2015 by Routledge
5. Understanding Poverty and the Environment

   Analytical frameworks and approaches

   By Fiona Nunan

   Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle portrayal of ‘poverty leading to environmental...

   Published March 17th 2015 by Routledge
6. Environment and Citizenship

   By Benito Cao

   Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

   The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating...

   Published March 13th 2015 by Routledge
7. How To Do Your Dissertation in Geography and Related Disciplines

   3rd Edition

   By Tony Parsons, Peter G Knight

   This book provides undergraduates with a step-by-step guide to successfully carrying out an independent research project or dissertation. The book addresses each stage of the project by answering the questions that a student is likely to ask as the work progresses from choosing the subject area and...

   Published February 17th 2015 by Routledge
8. Coasts for People

   Interdisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Resource Management

   By Fikret Berkes

   Issues of sustainability and increased competition over coastal resources are changing practices of resource management. Societal concerns about environmental degradation and loss of coastal resources have steadily increased, while other issues like food security, biodiversity, and climate change,...

   Published January 22nd 2015 by Routledge
9. Nature’s Gifts

   The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land and Other Natural Resources

   By John Pullen

   In 1890, the famous American economist and social reformer, Henry George, arrived in Australia to begin a controversial 98-day public lecture tour. Following the international publicity generated by his book Progress and Poverty, with its challenges to conventional economics, he had made several...

   Published January 14th 2015 by Federation Press
10. The Environment in American History

    Nature and the Formation of the United States

    By Jeff Crane

    From pre-European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly manipulated their environment. The use of natural resources – animals, plants, minerals, water, and land – has produced both prosperity and destruction, reshaping the land and human...

    Published December 11th 2014 by Routledge