Environment & Resources

This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise the economic system using nature as a model...

The global food system is characterized by large numbers of people experiencing food insecurity and hunger on the one hand, and vast amounts of food waste and overconsumption on the other. This book brings together experiences from different countries addressing the challenges associated with food s..

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population...

Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable...

Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable...

First published in 1974, this volume explores alternative forest management programmes to see what is biologically, economically, socially and politically possible. This title is a valuable resource for students interested in environmental studies, as well as for policy makers...

Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of forest lands to local people and communities. This book explains the importance and implications of these reforms for the livelihoods of often poor villagers, local enviro..

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world’s forests...

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world’s forests...

Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened at the Rio+20 conference in 2012 and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly around the development..

Through a legal analysis that also incorporates historic, economic and sociological perspectives, the book argues that genetic resources are not tangible resources but information. It shows that the existing preference for bilateralism and contracts reflects resistance on the part of many of the sta..

Through a legal analysis that also incorporates historic, economic and sociological perspectives, the book argues that genetic resources are not tangible resources but information. It shows that the existing preference for bilateralism and contracts reflects resistance on the part of many of the sta..