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Examining the issues of ethics and justice as they apply to the environment, this book starts from the observation that the parallel expositions of environmental ethics and environmental justice appear to have few points of contact. Environmental justice is highly politicized and concerned...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, namely, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments...
To Be Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Pathways to Sustainability Series
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...
To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
The European Union (EU) has a hugely important effect on the way in which environmental policies are framed and implemented in many different parts of the world, but especially Europe. The new and comprehensively revised edition of this well known textbook provides a state of the art analysis of...
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses – a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems....
To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
There have been attempts to address forest governance and reduce deforestation over the last seventy years at both national, international and at global levels. Many ideas have been discussed and efforts have been made to implement measures such as debt for nature swaps and payment for ecosystem...
To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK. Strongly evidence-based, the book draws on case study data and comparisons into local and central government structure,...
To Be Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from...
To Be Published August 28th 2012 by Routledge
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how effective adaptation can be designed and implemented and of what ‘good’ adaptation looks like. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one...
To Be Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
