Environmental Studies

This title, originally published in 1982, examines the importance of western irrigation to U.S. agriculture and the impacts of the changing water supply situation on the development of western irrigation. It will be of particular interest for students studying environmental issues...

First published in 1969, this book describes how Great Britain enacted new governmental procedures for studying, planning, and executing water management programmes. This title is a valuable resource for students interested in environment and sustainability issues, national water resources problems,..

The book focuses on policy issues related to urban water reuse for potable use in several cities in the developed and the developing world. The objective is to understand the potential that water reuse has for direct and non-direct potable use with the objective to expand water supply sources throug..

From oceans and rivers to lagoons, billabongs and estuaries, this volume draws on water’s many formations in debating human relationships as a major source of life and a major factor in contemporary politics...

This book focuses on newly emerging approaches to ecology that cross the disciplinary boundaries of sciences and humanities with the aim of responding to the challenges facing the current era of planetary interconnectedness. It introduces concepts that draw out a creative contrast between religious ..

REDD is being trumpeted as a way to both mitigate climate change and assist countries with development. It is also supposed to protect biodiversity and the rights of indigenous peoples by securing land tenure. There have been few attempts to understand and analyse the overall framework of REDD schem..

International air and marine travel have been left to one side in past negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but, unless something is done, emissions from this segment of the world economy will form a progressively larger percentage of the total, especially as emissions fall in other..

Woodland Habitats explores the history, ecology and importance of woodlands and offers a guide to all the key conservation and managment issues...

Woodland Habitats explores the history, ecology and importance of woodlands and offers a guide to all the key conservation and managment issues...

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It applies a rigorous critique to the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the insights of Marxist social and employmen..

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It applies a rigorous critique to the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the insights of Marxist social and employmen..