The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonization during the nineteenth century. Based on a …
The overall objective of Reservoir Eutrophication: Preventive Management is to present the environmental and anthropogenic factors associated with the process of eutrophication and algal blooms in the Rio Verde reservoir and propose lake use and management technologies in order …
As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on ecosystems, and the impacts of anthropogenic use and abuse are becoming ever more apparent. This has led to the development of the concept of ecosystem services, which describes the beneficial functions provided by…
As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on ecosystems, and the impacts of anthropogenic use and abuse are becoming ever more apparent. This has led to the development of the concept of ecosystem services, which describes the beneficial functions provided by…
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice, brings together contributions to both the theory and practice of hydrology, including chapters on (amongst other topics) flood estimation methods and hydrological modelling. The book also looks forward with a global hydrology research …
This volume combines theory with applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, ethics, law, and the social sciences. It stresses the need for theory, research and an interdisciplinary approach in solving conservat…
Reconciling positivist and constructionist approaches to environmental sociology, Bell looks at topics ranging from environmental problems through the ideologies of environmental concern and domination to organising the ecological society.
This title provides a clear, up-to-date, practical, visual, application-focused introduction to modern environmental technology. Now fully updated, the sixth edition emphasizes applications while presenting fundamental concepts in clear, simple language. It covers a broad range …
"Most books and articles about climate change focus on two important questions. First, what will growing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) mean for the climate over the coming decades? By how much will temperatures increase and sea levels rise? And what will be the economic a…
"Walking, Landscape and Environment explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This edited collection of essays from leading figures in the field presents an enquir…
This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a specific and a generalisable geo-historical and cultural formation, occurring across various planetary spaces including: the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the Caribbean basin, the Malay archipelago, Oceania, and the creole isla…
This title advances institutional theory by developing the concept of 'institutional bricolage'. It draws on a number of contemporary strands of development thinking to provide new understandings of why and how people act to manage natural resources and how access is secured or …
This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds) combines traditional limnology with current ecological and evolutionary theory. 'The Biology of Lakes and Ponds', now in its second edition, should be a useful text for university tui…
This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds) combines traditional limnology with current ecological and evolutionary theory. 'The Biology of Lakes and Ponds', now in its second edition, should be a useful text for university tui…
A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds). As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on the organisms that dominate freshwater environments. Management and conservation aspects are also …
This title provides a synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns.
Issues around the environment provoke ethical, cultural, scientific and political debates. This unique inter-disciplinary introduction guides readers through these debates, drawing on recent and influential social theory and empirical cases to map out scholarship in the area. Fr…
Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity, loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air, has prompted calls for the 'ecolog…
This title takes a close look at how the extraction of raw materials from Africa has delivered huge profits to the North and the damage this has done to Africa's environment and economies.
