Environmental Studies

This book presents a diverse range of case studies in action-research methods used to support the governance of climate adaptation, examining the reasons for using action research in this particular policy domain, its main pitfalls and problems, as well as the advantages and results...

Adaptation to Climate Change argues that without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. This book presents a framework for ma..

Originally written for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Resources for the future published this report in 1971 believing it would be of interest to more general readers. Resources for the Future draws on its past experience of resource utilization, development and economics..

This book, first published in 1988, provides a comprehensive, integrated body of knowledge concerning agricultural productivity research, highlighting both its strengths and limitations. This book will be of value to scholars and research leaders for the knowledge it conveys of future productivity r..

An Instructor's manual to accompany the comprehensive text, Introduction to Global Environmental Issues. It is an essential book for all those studying global environmental issues...

An Instructor's manual to accompany the comprehensive text, Introduction to Global Environmental Issues. It is an essential book for all those studying global environmental issues...

This report was undertaken to emphasise the need for Residuals- Environmental quality management (REQM). Originally published in 1982, this study brings together information on approaches for analysing natural systems and which factors to consider when choosing an approach. This title will be of int..

Up until now the debate in terms of the scientific and economic implications of avoided deforestation has not been brought together. This book gathers together important research findings in the area along with their policy implications, whilst linking avoided deforestation to political economy as w..

This book addresses the wide range of co-effects associated with environmental policies and the ways they may increase or decrease the attractiveness of environmental policy as a whole. Therefore, the book’s scope moves beyond standard economic analyses, which regularly postulate a clear cause-and-e..

Updated to reflect new research and developments, and with original international case studies, this excellent book remains the only introductory text to bring together the theory and practice that make up 'biodiversity' and 'conservation'...

Bioregionalism is the first book to explain the theoretical and practical dimensions of bioregionalism from an interdiscipinary standpoint, focusing on the place of bioregional identity within global politics...

This book describes and accounts for American campsteading, an institution that draws on historical trends to link families to places, and so shapes human presence on the land. The author draws on John Dewey's evolutionary model of experience to produce a detailed analysis of this phenomenon. ..