Environmental Studies Books
Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID: A Complex Realist Approach
This book uses a complex realist frame of reference to understand the character of social-cultural-economic-political-ecological systems. (more)
Climate Realism
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. (more)
A Theory of Environmental Leadership: Leading for the Earth
By rigorously analyzing and leveraging this polarity, this book outlines an innovative theory of eco-leadership together with some of its confronting-but-necessary measures. (more)
Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science
Environmental Science integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the environment, with the goal of solving today's environmental challenges. Many of these challenges tie into a... (more)
Environment and Citizenship
The book concludes with a general reflection on the present and future of environmental citizenship. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, links to online resources and... (more)
Environmental Values
Written in a clear and accessible style for an interdisciplinary audience, this volume will be ideal for student use in environmental courses in geography, economics, philosophy, politics and... (more)
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators
This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. (more)
Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes
As Emeritus Professor Valerie Brown AO notes in her Preface, this book moves transdisciplinary inquiry into the academic and social mainstream. (more)
Zero-Waste: Reconsidering Waste Management for the Future
This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption... (more)
A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability
This book is a cautionary interpretation of the present and vision for the future. (more)
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics. (more)
Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures
The contributors to this volume focus on a critical approach to power and issues of environmental injustice across time, space, and context, drawing from twelve national contexts: Austria,... (more)
Children, Citizenship and Environment
This groundbreaking book will be of interest to a wide audience, in particular teachers and professionals who work in Environmental Citizenship Education, as well as students and community activists... (more)
Communicating Sustainability
This book offers tools to help make complex systems and nuanced, abstract ideas concrete and comprehensible to the broadest range of people. The goal of communication, and of this book, is to build... (more)
Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic: A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism
This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just incidental... (more)
The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. (more)
An Introduction to Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
Housed on the Routledge Sustainability Hub, the book's companion website contains a range of features to engage students with the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. (more)
Understanding Sustainable Development
Introduction -- Towards sustainable development -- Worldviews and ethical values: towards an ecological paradigm -- Cultural and contested understandings of science and sustainability -- Connecting... (more)
Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions
In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet, in light of ever-evolving scientific research. (more)
The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change
This text covers all key areas of climate change, detailing everything from the science to resiliency and vulnerability to policy. (more)
Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development
'This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. (more)
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Since the first edition of this highly acclaimed Atlas was published in 2006, climate change has climbed even further up the global agenda. (more)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals... (more)
The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind
In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took time off on long-term sick leave and despite several relapses has... (more)