Environmental Sociology
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Handbook on Energy and Climate Change
Edited by Roger Fouquet
This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might help to minimize the threat of energy-induced climate change.eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security
Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Marco Grasso
The Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security is a landmark publication which links the complexities of climate change to the wellbeing and resilience of human populations. It is written in an engaging and accessible way but also co...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development
Edited by Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips, David Castle
This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, conclu...eBook:Find out more$77.56
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International Handbook on Ecotourism
Edited by Roy Ballantyne, Jan Packer
This Handbook brings together contributions from over forty international experts in the field of ecotourism. It provides a critical review and discussion of current issues and concepts – it challenges readers to consider the boundaries ...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Environmental Education in China
Gerald A. McBeath, Jenifer Huang McBeath, Qing Tian, Huang Yu
China’s environmental problems increasingly attract global attention, yet critics often overlook the sizable efforts of the Chinese people and government to change attitudes and behavior, in order to improve environmental outcomes. This ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism tha...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism
Edited by Larry Dwyer, Alison Gill, Neelu Seetaram
This insightful book explores the most important established and emerging qualitative and quantitative research methods in tourism. The authors provide a detailed overview of the nature of the research method, its use in tourism, the adv...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Handbook of Rural Development
Edited by Gary Paul Green
Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universall...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Global Challenge of Encouraging Sustainable Living
Edited by Shane Fudge, Michael Peters, Steven M. Hoffman, Walter Wehrmeyer
This unique book illustrates that in order to address the growing urgency of issues around environmental and resource limits, it is clear that we need to develop effective policies to promote durable changes in behaviour and transform ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Forests and Climate Change
Anthony Hall
Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions fro...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...eBook:Find out more$40.00