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…
Provides an introduction to natural and environmental resources. Sets out a conceptuial framework within which contemporary issues can be considered and presents these issues in their historical contexts. Reviews each of the major resource sectors - land, energy, mineral, water,…
Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies, and politics in communities as diverse as the rubber tappers in the rainforests of Brazil and activist groups fighting environmental racism in New York City. Environmental struggles occur through…
"Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing reconstruction process after an earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, flood or fire. Design of post-disaster housing is not simply replacing the destroyed house b…
At the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro 1992 the real agenda focused more on preserving the interests of the North than on concern for the environment and the peoples of the South. The authors criticise this attitude. With figures and tables on climate, energy, forestry and agri…
Rangelands are those parts of the world where pastoral people graze native and domestic herbivores on native vegetation. Here the natural and fossil resources are utilized by other people for a host of purposes, including fuels and minerals, water catchment, ecotourism and recre…
by Gunderson, Lance H., Allen, Craig R., Holling, C. S.
Provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from licolaised disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks and floos, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change.
Appendices include: Classification of organisms. -- Geological time scales. -- Conversion tables and other measurements.
Using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, Colin Duncan argues that the entire project of developing the theory of political economy has been seriously sidetracked by industrialism. Using England as a case study he shows that the relatio…
"As both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides a critical review of the ways in which resilie…
