Environmental Geography
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Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture
Edited by Guy M. Robinson, Doris A. Carson
‘Guy Robinson and Doris Carson have assembled a wonderfully comprehensive and timely book that both reveals and joins together the many and varied elements of diverse contemporary agriculture and food production systems. The book stands ...eBook:Find out more$62.40
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Healthy Cities
Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, John Gallacher
‘Our cities’ built environments shape our health and well-being, and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher conceptualize the “urban health niche” as an approach to public health and healthy-city planning. The book is of practical use for those i...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security
Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Marco Grasso
The Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security is a landmark publication which links the complexities of climate change to the wellbeing and resilience of human populations. It is written in an engaging and accessible way but also con...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
‘Once in a while a book is published which offers an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of an under-studied topic which helps to carve out a new field of enquiry. Such is the case with Dr Sarah Bradshaw’s breathtakingly deta...eBook:Find out more$27.16
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
‘The question Chris Gibson and his colleagues answer in this book is simple: “Why is it not easy being green?” In 20 concise, focused and accessible chapters – from birthing to dying, from toilets to Christmas – they unveil the ambiguiti...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister
‘For a thorough and thoughtful perspective on what it will take to de-carbonize cities of the future, this book is a must-read. Technology alone, we are told, will not create the post-carbon city. As important is coming to grips with a c...eBook:Find out more$39.96
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The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia
David Feldman, Ivan Blokov
‘A fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia’s manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is present...eBook:Find out more$27.16
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Forests and Climate Change
Anthony Hall
‘This engaging and well-organized book is accessible to a wide range of audiences, from academics and students to practitioners. . . Forest and Climate Change is an excellent resource on global climate change policy and an insightful int...eBook:Find out more$44.80
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The Water–Energy Nexus in the American West
Edited by Douglas S. Kenney, Robert Wilkinson
The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. This book contributes to the body of knowledg...eBook:Find out more$47.16
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Weak versus Strong Sustainability
Eric Neumayer
This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...eBook:Find out more$54.36
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
‘Governance of irrigation systems is complex, needing social, technical and financial actions that support farming. Few people have as much knowledge of self-governing irrigation systems as these authors, and few countries have as many o...eBook:Find out more$32.80
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Low Carbon Communities
Edited by Michael Peters, Shane Fudge, Tim Jackson
‘We are faced with the greatest challenge to public engagement since World War Two, and a new discourse of fear – not military invasion but climate change. At the same time most people cannot grasp the scale of the challenge nor what the...eBook:Find out more$40.76