Environmental Studies Books

New and Published Books – Page 5

41. Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

    Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11

    Edited by Jeff Kingston

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced...

    Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
42. Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK

    Edited by Mark Shucksmith, David L. Brown, Sally Shortall, Jo Vergunst, Mildred E. Warner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
43. The Roads from Rio

    Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations

    Edited by Pamela Chasek, Lynn M. Wagner

    At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
44. Geography of Climate Change

    Edited by Richard Aspinall

    Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
45. Climate Smart Development in Asia

    Transition to Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economies

    Edited by Ancha Srinivasan, Frank Ling, Hideyuki Mori

    Asia is rapidly becoming a major contributor of global greenhouse gas emissions. Also many countries in the region are highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. With a growing consensus that there is limited time to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists, engineers, economists and...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
46. Ecosystems and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia

    Edited by E. R. N. Gunawardena, Brij Gopal, Hemesiri Kotagama

    This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region. It argues that aspects such as sources of water, its distribution and users; land–water interrelations; drivers of change such as laws, policies and institutions; management of...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge India
47. The Role of Science for Conservation

    Edited by Matthias Wolff, Mark Gardener

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    The book integrates the knowledge and reflections of thirty scientists, of which many have dedicated a substantial part of their professional life to the Galapagos archipelago, to the conservation of its biodiversity and to the sustainable management of its resources. The book can be...

    Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
48. The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy

    The conflict between principles and practice

    By Midori Kagawa-Fox

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    This book examines the Japanese government policies that impact on the environment in order to determine whether they incorporate a sufficient ethical substance. Through the three case studies on whaling, nuclear energy, and forestry, the author explores how Western philosophers combined their...

    Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
49. Environmental Scenario in India

    Successes and Predicaments

    Edited by Sacchidananda Mukherjee, Debashis Chakraborty

    India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc. The consequent growth implications are obvious as far as the numbers like GDP...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
50. Carbon Markets or Climate Finance?

    Low Carbon and Adaptation Investment Choices for the Developing World

    Edited by Axel Michaelowa

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge