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  • Kitchen Table Sustainability

    Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

    by Wendy Sarkissian, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda, Cathy Wilkinson, Nancy Hofer ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a user-friendly and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... Read more

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  • Restoration Ecology

    The New Frontier

    Edited by Jelte van Andel, James Aronson ...
    Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration.Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances have taken place in restoration science and in the practice of ecological restoration. Both are now ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Rangeland Systems

    Processes, Management and Challenges

    Edited by David D. Briske ...
    Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Edited by A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Edited by Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

    Edited by Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R. Kerry Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration

    Edited by Stuart K. Allison, Stephen D. Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • People and Nature

    An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations

    by Emilio F. Moran ...
    Series series Primers in Anthropology
    Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studiesAddresses new issues of importance, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

    Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Nadja Kabisch, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, Aletta Bonn ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas. Emphasis is given to the potential of nature-based approaches to create multiple-benefits for society.The expert contributions present recommendations for creating synergies between ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (OPEN ACCESS)

    Trade-offs and Governance

    Edited by Kate Schreckenberg, Georgina Mace, Mahesh Poudyal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, which has funded over 120 ... Read more

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