Sustainable Development Set

Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World

By Michael Sill

Edited by John Kirkby

Series: Sustainable Development Set

Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse,...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Caring for the Earth

A strategy for sustainable living

By The World Coservation Union (Iucn), Unep, Wwf

Series: Sustainable Development Set

'This is a strategy for a kind of development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth. The goal is development that will be sustainable. Today it may seem visionary. but it is attainable. To more and more...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Strategies for National Sustainable Development

A handbook for their planning and implementation

By Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen, Stephen Bass, Barry Dalal-Clayton

Series: Sustainable Development Set

The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Women and the Environment in the Third World

Alliance for the future

By Irene Dankelman, Joan Davidson

Series: Sustainable Development Set

'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Mountain World in Danger

Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

Series: Sustainable Development Set

The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Threats Without Enemies

Facing environmental insecurity

By Gwyn Prins

Series: Sustainable Development Set

The world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by a new range of threats and a new range of priorities. Already headlines tell of storms and droughts, mass emigrations, the danger of old Soviet nuclear reactors and the thinning ozone layer, and with the menaces of global warming,...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

One World for One Earth

Saving the environment

By Philip Sarre, Paul Smith, Paul Smith with Eleanor Morris

Series: Sustainable Development Set

We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters. This highly readable and challenging text sets out some important topical issues that tells us we are not making a very good job of it. From the tropical rainforests to the teeming cities of the developing world and the energy hungry...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Progress for a Small Planet

By Barbara Ward

Series: Sustainable Development Set

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty. In this exceptional book...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Rising Seas

By Martin Ince

Series: Sustainable Development Set

Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example. of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise. Most scientists are predicting a rise of about one metre and this book, based on research carried out for the Commonwealth governments, describes in...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge

Global Environment Outlook 2000

By United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)

Series: Sustainable Development Set

'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired political leadership and intense cooperation...

Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge