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Series: Routledge Key Guides
This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive overview of the many methods and methodologies of social research. Each entry provides a critical definition and examines the value and difficulties of a particular method or methodology of concept across different fields of social research....
To Be Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
The New Geographies of Energy: Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes is a pioneering collection of new geographic scholarship. It examines such vitally important research topics as energy dilemmas of the United States, large trends and patterns of energy consumption including China’s role,...
To Be Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies. The book focuses primarily on India, a fast developing economy, whose natural resource base comprising land and water supporting agricultural production is not only under enormous stress, but also...
To Be Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM). CM is characterized by the decentralization of the decision-making process, incorporating the...
To Be Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with...
To Be Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
Coastal communities are in the front line of climate change. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, more intense coastal storms, ocean acidification and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapid coastal population growth and...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by CRC Press
This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, principally fish, molluscs, crustaceans and marine algae. It has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past fifty years and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high quality protein to feed the world's growing population,...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all 119 River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: RFF Press Water Policy Series
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. One of the key water management options for water demand is water trading. Water trading can contribute to improve efficiency of water use...
To Be Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
