Environments Books

New and Published Books

1. Coastal Erosion and Protection in Europe

   Edited by Enzo Pranzini, Allan Williams

   Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands. This book provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe and a comparative analysis of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

   Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

   Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Principles of Sustainable Aquaculture

   Promoting Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience

   By Stuart W. Bunting

   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,...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Bankrupting Nature

   Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

   By Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström

   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...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas

   A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management

   By Natalie Bown, Tim S. Gray, Selina M. Stead

   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...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Transforming Urban Waterfronts

   Fixity and Flow

   Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

   Toward a Green Silicon Island

   By Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations

   Managing Environmental Power

   By Michael Greenberg

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...

   Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Coastal Engineering

    Processes, Theory and Design Practice, 2nd Edition

    By Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

    Historically, much harm has been done by well-meaning coastal engineering attempts, which seemed like good ideas on paper but which failed to allow for practical issues. For this reason, it is vital that theories and models are well grounded in practice. This second edition brings the models and...

    Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press